The main focus of the Franklin High School Library Media Center is to provide students with the necessary resources and information retrieval skills to produce high quality research papers as well as provide access to age appropriate materials for pleasure reading. Keeping this in mind, we are committed to enriching the excellent curriculum that the district offers to its students. With the offering of over 21,000 volumes, 49 magazines subscriptions and access to thousands more via online databases, our students and staff are sure to find useful resources for their research or pleasure reading needs.

Our library media center is designed to accommodate up to three classes simultaneously without compromising our positive learning environment. Students and staff are provided access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via 32 networked computers and a variety of application software.

The regular schedule of the library is every school day from 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM. In addition students can access the library until 4:30 PM by taking care of their own transportation from school, or they may sign up for the late bus if they are residents of the city of Milwaukee.

Access the library for any of the Franklin Public Schools.

(See Library Media Center Catalog information below.) 

Access subscription databases:

• Badgerlink - BadgerLink is supported by the Department of Public Instruction to provide Wisconsin residents access to quality online information in cooperation with the state's library community.
• Culturegrams - CultureGrams Online is a resource that provides concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural information on 182 countries of the world, as well as the U.S. states-perfect for state or country projects or reports! (Please see your Library Media Teacher for login and password)
• Grolier - online database inlcuding New Book of Knowledge and Amazing Animals of the World (See your Library Media Teacher for login and password for home access)

Access on-line databases:

	Newspaper articles
	Magazine and journal articles
	JSTOR is a interdisciplinary digital archive of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. It is full-text searchable.
	African American Biography Database
	Access Newspaper Archive contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s.

Handouts for searching online databases

Instructions for using Proquest

Instructions for using Ebscohost

Techniques for searching online

Library Media Center Catalog Information

It is helpful to familiarize yourself with the following abbreviations before you search our catalog:

(All resources starting with a call number are Nonfiction)

Resources

Web Site Evaluation Form 

MLA Style Sheet (Basic)