Brenda Mackey, High School and Jr. High School Librarian
419-823-4381 x. 2

Resources/Reference

INFOOHIO
InfOhio’s core collection provides free resources such as World Book online, magazines, biographies, and more to all Ohio K-12 students and educators for the school year. For home access, username is think and password is infohio.

SIRS Knowledge Source / ProQuest
Go beyond googling and access the best documented websites and research tools available. Our library subscribes to this database yearly. You can access it with username oh2532 and password ohslib.

Wood County Public Library

Toledo-Lucas County Public Library

Research it!
Offers a dictionary and can help you and your students translate words into French and Japanese. You can look up synonyms at this site, as well.

High School ACE (formerly Hub)
is a gateway to academic resources for High School students. It features Virtual Reference Desk and subject guides for English, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science.

Biographies
Biographies on over 15,000 famous people.

FinAid
The smart guide to financial aid is FinAid www.finaid.org/calculators/costprojector.phtml

ACCELERATED READER

All of Otsego’s buildings now subscribe to a web-based version of Accelerated Reader. This offers AR quizzes on well over 120,000 book titles, and the list is constantly growing. All students have the opportunity to take a reading, vocabulary, and literacy skills quiz on a book, and their quiz results are recorded online into their own class record. High school students receive reading rewards based on the number of quizzes they passed during the school year.

BOOK AND MEDIA CLUB

Otsego High School Book & Media Club (BMC) is open to any student interested in promoting reading and activities related to reading. The club holds regular meetings once a month after school and a number of other activities. The BMC participates in a variety of fundraising and service projects throughout the school year. These include parking cars at the Apple Butter Festival, preparing the Knightly News district newsletter for quarterly mailing, holding bake sales and coat checks at all home boys basketball games. The fundraisers generate enough to provide a $1000 scholarship to a deserving senior each year, as well as hold a reading rewards day to the student body at the end of the year. Additionally, the Manga/Anime Guild (MAG) is a part of the Book & Media Club, open to students who are fans of graphic (animated) novels. MAG also meets monthly after school.