Library Resources

MakerSpace, Media Center & Swank

Use the dropdown tabs below to access our MakerSpace website, Media Center page and Swank's digital library.

Swank is the Digital Movie Library for the Classroom. Swank Digital Campus provides a customizable academic streaming library of over 25,000 feature films, documentaries and foreign films from the largest movie studios, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBCUniversal, Columbia Pictures, Lions Gate, MGM, Miramax and many more.

Swank: Digital Campus Streaming

Citing Sources

Need help citing sources? Click any of the dropdown sections to learn more about citing your sources in its appropriate format.

APA Formatting & Style Guide

MLA Citations

To find the correct MLA 8 citation format for your sources:

First, determine whether your source belongs in the Web Sources, Printed Sources, or Other Common Sources category.
Then, select the citation type that most closely matches your source.

You can create MLA or APA citations using NoodleTools

Purdue Owl: MLA Formatting and Style Guide

If you are unsure of how to cite any information, the Purdue Owl Site is a great place to navigate

MLA General Format

MLA Journal Citations

MLA Magazine Citations

Other Common Sources

Printed Sources

Books and other non-periodicals:

Books by one or more authors
Books with no author
Books with a corporate author (e.g. company, committee, association, or institution)
Anthologies and compilations
Single work from an anthology or compilation
Reference books (e.g. encyclopedia, dictionary, almanac, etc.)
Graphic novels and illustrated books
Maps and charts
Interviews
Works of visual art (e.g. painting, sculpture, photography, etc.)

Magazines, newspapers & other periodicals:

Magazine articles
Newspaper articles
Scholarly journal articles

Recommended Free Internet Sites

Use the dropdown tabs below to see helpful internet websites you can use for research.

Art

Biography

Chicago

Overview

Chicago Housing Authority

City of Chicago
Official Web Site

Chicago Imagebase
University of Illinois at Chicago

Encyclopedia of Chicago
Chicago Historical Society 2005

Explore Chicago's Neighborhoods
City of Chicago Official Tourism Site

Chicago History Museum

Architecture

National Register of Historic Places - Illinois
National Park Service

Chicago Architecture Foundation

Chicago Architects Oral History Project
The Art Institute of Chicago

Landmark Chicago
The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design

Explore Chicago's Neighborhoods
City of Chicago's Official Tourism Site

Chicago Fire

The Chicago Fire
Chicago Historical Society

Chicago on Fire
PBS

An Excerpt from Smoldering City
Karen Sawislak/University of Chicago Press

History

Plan of Chicago
Chicago Historical Society

Plan of Chicago
Encyclopedia of Chicago

Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago
Encyclopedia of Chicago

The History Files
Chicago Historical Society

Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration
Library of Congress

Haymarket Riots

Haymarket Affair Digital Collection
Chicago Historical Society

Haymarket Monument
Graveyards of Illinois

The Anarchists and the Haymarket Square Incident
American Experience

Pullman Strike

Pullman Strike
Encyclopedia of Chicago

Broken Spirits: Letters on the Pullman Strike
History Matters: City University of New York and George Mason University

World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893

World's Columbian Exposition

World's Columbian Exposition of 1893: The Court of Honor
American Experience

World's Columbian Exposition of 1893: the Midway
American Experience

Career & College

Career

Occupational Outlook Handbook
U.S. Department of Labor

Career Guide to Industries
Bureau of Labor Statistics

Occupational Outlook Quarterly
U.S. Department of Labor

Career One Stop
U.S. Department of Labor

Careers after College
Princeton Review

Monster Digital Recruiting

Salary.com

World of Work Map
American College Testing

College

Plan for College
CollegeBoard

Writing the Successful College Application Essay
Peterson's Service

College Essay Writing Tips
CollegeBoard

BrainTrack
University, College and Career Search

National Association for College Admission Counseling

Countries

Elections

U.S. Elections

Project Vote Smart
Non-partisan, nonprofit educational organization

Democratic National Committee

Green Party of the United States

Libertarian Party

Republican National Committee

FactCheck

The Pew Forum: Religion and Politics 2012
A nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.

Illinois Elections

Illinois State Board of Elections

Project Vote Smart
Non-partisan, nonprofit educational organization

Villanueva Patterns Group 1

The Atlantic

The Nation

Mother Jones

The American Prospect

Villanueva Patterns Group 2

National Review

Human Events

Wall Street Journal

The Washington Times

International News

BBC News - U.S. Election

English Online International Newspapers
List of links to international newspapers in English

World Newspapers

Full-text Books & Periodicals

Government & Politics

Federal

Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

Budget of the U.S. Government

C-SPAN
C-SPAN is a private, nonprofit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. Its mission is to provide public access to the political process.

FactCheck
A nonpartisan, nonprofit "consumer advocate" for voters that monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.

Findlaw Legal Information

National Archives

Supreme Court of the U.S.

Supreme Court Historical Society

Thomas Legislative Information

U.S. Congress

U.S. Government Information, by Topic

U.S. Government Manual

U.S. Government Printing Office
Official Publications from All Three Branches of the U.S. Government

Whitehouse

Women in Congress

State

Illinois General Assembly

Illinois Official Website

Health & Medical

Immigration

Maps

Reference

Directories

Roget's International Thesaurus

Zip Code Look Up

Area Code Locator

AnyWho: Finding People, Places and Businesses

Language

Bartleby.com
Literature sources including quotations, essays, poetry, short stories, the King James Bible, Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy and more.

Merriam-Webster
Online Dictionary from Encyclopedia Britannica

Dictionary.com

Portals and Search Engines

Infomine
Search Engine for Scholarly Internet Resource Collections

Internet Public Library
Collections of websites for information, reference and research

Virtual Reference Shelf
Library of Congress

Spanish Language Sources

Search Engines

Google in Spanish
Access sites in Spanish and English. Evaluate sites for credibility.

Google (Mexico)
Evaluate sites for credibility.

Newspapers in Spanish
Argentina - Ambito Financiero

Argentina - Clarin

Argentina - La Nacion

Canary Islands - Canarias7

Colombia (Cali) - El Pais

Costa Rica - La Nacion

El Salvador - El Salvador

Guatemala - Prensa Libre

Honduras - El Tiempo

Honduras - La Prensa.hn

Mexico - yucatan.com.mx
A Mexican daily with special collection of Mayan culture

Mexico - El Economista
Economic news from Mexico City

Mexico (Mexico City) - El Universal

Mexico (Monterrey) - El Norte

Mexico - Pulso

Nicaragua (Managua) - El Nuevo Diario

Paraguay - Ultima Hora

Puerto Rico - El Nuevodia

Peru - La Republica

Peru (Lima) El Comercio

Spain - ABC

Spain (Asturia) El Comercio

Spain (Madrid) Cinco Dias

Spain (Madrid) El Pais

Spain - El Periodico

Venezuela (Caracas) - El Universal

Think Tanks

American Enterprise Institute

Aspen Institute

James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Rice University
Rice University

Brookings

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

The Carter Center
Partners with Emory University

The Cato Institute

Center for Strategic & International Studies

Council on Foreign Relations

Foreign Policy Research Institute

Heritage Foundation

Hoover Institution
Stanford University

Hudson Institute

Pew Research Center

Rand

Additional Resources

All of the dropdown tabs below feature more incredible resources to help you finish your project.

ACT & SAT Prep

Borrowing from Other Libraries

Members of the HPHS Library staff can help you borrow books, CDs, and DVDs from other libraries. Depending on the lending institution, interlibrary loans requests take from three to ten days to complete.

In addition, students with a Highland Park or Highwood Public Library card can borrow materials on their own from any public library in the State of Illinois.

Local Public Libraries