Library Media Center

Mrs. Agatha Piropato 

St. Dominic has an extensive library with over 20,000 books, 25 Databases listed under Library Research Databases, 20 magazines, 350+ videos for teachers, 12 computers, 8 laptops, a scanner and a SMARTBoard.  The Library is open at lunch for additional research & computer time. Students have a library/Research period once a week. They are allowed to visit the library daily to exchange books. Please encourage students to read their library books and return them on time.

Kindergarten and first grade students have their books for one week and all the other grades have them for two weeks and all books can be renewed. The older grades are allowed to take out several books at a time.

There is a nickel fine for each day a book is late and if a book is lost, there will be a replacement fee.

 
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 Bibliography Format

How To Write a Bibliography

A bibliography is a list of books and other sources that have been used in your research.  There are many different ways to write a bibliography.  This sheet used the bibliographic format recommended by St. Dominic Teachers and is based on the MLA style in 14 font. The follow tips may be of some assistance in writing your bibliography:

• The book or magazine title is always underlined in a bibliography
• Arrange the bibliography in alphabetical order by the author's last name.  If there is no author listed, use the first word of the title (not a, an, or the).
• When there is more than one author, list the authors in the order that they are listed on the title page.
• If you use information from an article in a book or magazine, the article is listed before the title.
• Mrs. Hogya is always available to help with any bibliography or any report

Book Citations:

Bibliographic citations for books vary.  These examples can help you write your bibliography for many types of book citations.

Book With One Author:
Lavender, David. Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party. New
     York: Holiday House, 1996.

Book with Two Authors:
Lurie, Jon and Jimmy Clarke. Fundamental Snowboarding. New York:
     Lerner, 1996

Book that has an editor:
Ehriich, Amy, ed. When I was Your Age: Original Stories About Growing Up,
     Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 1996.

If the city of publication is unfamiliar, the name of the state or country is listed as well.

 Book Without an author:
Mobil Travel Guide, Southeast. New York: Fodor's Travel Publication, 1997.

An article in a Book Without an Author
"Fiji." The World Fact Book. Central Intelligence Agency: Washington, 1997.

The title of the article is listed before the title of the book.

Encyclopedia and Other Reference Books:

An encyclopedia article may or may not have an author.  The author's name can be found at the front or end of the article.  An article that has an author is called a signed article.

Signed articles:
Sutherland, Zena. "Literature for Children."  World Book Encyclopedia. Volume
   12.  Chicago: World Book, 1997.

The name of the encyclopedia article is placed after the author's name and put in quotation marks.

Unsigned articles:
"Motion." Encyclopedia Americana. Volume 19. Danbury, Connecticut: Groliers
   1994.

Magazines and Newspapers:

Magazines and newspapers are good sources for locating current information.  When citing magazines or newspapers (sometimes called periodicals), use the following formats.  Periodical articles may or may not have an author.

Magazines: Signed Articles:
Taylor, Phil. "Center of the Storm." Sports Illustrated. 15 December 1997: 62-67.

The author's name is given first, the name of the article, then the name of the magazine, the date of the magazine, a colon and then the page number (s).

Newspapers:
"Algeria Aleedgedly Turns Blind Eye to Massacre." Chicago Tribune. 5 January
   1998. Section 1, page 4.

If the article has an author, it is placed before the name of the article.

Non-Book Materials:
When using non-book materials, include the publication medium (CD-ROM or World Wide Web, etc.) the vendor's and publisher's name (if known), and the date of the database publication.

Internet :

You must be very precise when writing an internet source.  Google and Yahoo are not web sites.

Author's last Name, First nane, "Article name," Web site title,URL (address)

access date, city:producer 

Beasley, Maureen H. "Roosevelt, Eleanor," World Book Online,

http://www.worldbookonline.com,  May 27, 2004, Chicago:World Book, Inc.

                                                       OR
Author's Name, last name, first (if available)        Smith, Tom,
Article Name                                                        "How to buy a computer."
Web Site Name                                                     Computerbuying.com
Date of document or download                             2003
URL (address bar)                                                http://www.compbuy.com/

Example:
U.S. Census Bureau.  "American FactFinder: Facts About My Community." 17 August 2001.
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet.

 Newspaper or Magazine Database:

Smith, Wes and Gary Marx. "U.S. Seizes Unabomber Suspect." Chicago
   Tribune. 4 Spril 1996. Section 1, Page 1. Chicago Tribune CD-ROM.
   Newsbank, Inc. 1996.

Boustany, Nora. "Postwar Iraq: A Still-Shaken People." Washington Post.  
   9 February 1993. Version 2.3. SIRS CD-ROM. Sirs, Inc. 1997.

Monaco, John E., "When the Diabetic Child is Hospitalized." Pediatrics for
   Parents. Volume 17, Issue 1:6. HealthSource Version 5.0, CD-ROM.
   Ebsco. 1996.

The citation looks like a regular newspaper or magazine citation, until the end where the type of product (CD-ROM) is listed, and then the publisher of the CD-ROM.

Videocassettes:
Inside the White House. Hosted by President and Mrs. Bush. Videocassette.
   MPI Home Video, 1990.

 The title of the videocassette is listed first. The person who is credited on the box (the director, host, or narrator) is listed second.  The type of media (a videocassette, film, or filmstrip is listed next.  The publisher and the year published are listed last.

Non-book Reference
"Maya Angelou."  UXL Biographies, Version 2.0. CD-ROM. Farmington
   Hills, MI: UXL,  1999.

"Belize." UXL Worldmark, Version 1.0. CD-ROM. Farmington Hills, MI: 
   UXL, 1997.

Burke, Ronald. "Vatican City." World Book Multimedia Encyclopedia.
   CD-ROM. Chicago: World Book, Inc., 1999.