Welcome to the Jackson High School Library - Home of the Aggie Readers

Hours:  Monday – Friday - 7:40 A.M. -3:05 P.M.        

Computer access:  Eleven(14) computers are available for reference/research, card catalog searches and Accelerated Reader testing. Printers:  Two (2) printers are available and documents may be printed for 10 cents per page.

Materials: A variety of reference materials is available for in-house use.

• The print collection is comprised of approximately 8,616 books. A current selection of fiction and non-fiction titles provides a well-rounded collection
• A selection of magazines is available for in-house use; older issues may be used for clipping articles.
• The Mobile Press-Register is available daily in the media center.
• The two weekly newspapers: The Clarke County Democrat and the South Alabamian are also provided on Thursday. Current copies of newspapers are used for in-house use; older ones are used for clipping articles.

Copier:  Copies may be made of homework and class notes for 10 cents per page.

Accelerated Reader (AR):  3258 AR tests are provided for students to test reading comprehension.

            Important Reference Links

Alabama Virtual Library

http://www.avl.lib.al.us

The Alabama Virtual Library provides all students, teachers, and citizens of the State of Alabama with online access to essential library and information resources. It is primarily a group of online databases that have magazine, journal, and newspaper articles for research. Through the AVL, an equitable core of information sources is available to every student and citizen in Alabama, raising the level of excellence in schools and communities across the state. Through the Internet, the AVL will access a three million-dollar database free of charge.

This service is now available to your child at home, if you have Internet access. Alabama public K-12 school systems may issue AVL cards to their students, teachers, and employees. Each student at Jackson High School has been issued a Home Access card with user name and password. 

Information Skill Objectives

The following list of suggested information skill objectives was compiled after examining Alabama's courses of study, objectives that are measured by the Basic Competency Tests and the Stanford Achievement Test, and information skills documents from other states.

                 Ninth Grade Media Skills that each Freshman should master:

        Use a poetry index to identify a poem related to a presentation topic.

        Use a collection of speeches to identify a quote by a specific person.

        Use subject dictionaries to determine the meaning of technical words.

        Read and interpret passages of classical literature.

        Draw conclusions, make inferences and generalizations from explicitly and

      implicitly stated meanings.

        Identify one sentence from a group of four sentences that best expresses an idea.

        Identify the correct and incorrect spelling of common homophones in context.

                  Tenth Grade Media Skills that each Sophomore should master:

        Determine the purpose or intent of a selection, author, or speaker.

        Outline the content from an oral presentation.

        Use a subject index to locate information on an assigned topic.

        Analyze a subject to determine the most interesting aspect.

        Use an established format to make notes on information read, viewed, or

      heard.

        Recognize fallacious argument in an issue, such as an appeal to emotions or an appeal to false authority.

        Compare information about a topic drawn from two or more sources to recognize agreement or contradiction.

        Make use of italics, marginal notes, and footnotes to discover author's emphasis.

        Develop audio-visual aids to use in a presentation.

        Use audio-visual aids in a presentation.

  Eleventh Grade Media Skills that each Junior should master:

        Use appropriate handbooks and directories to locate information about

governmental bodies and officials.

        Use a dictionary of abbreviations and acronyms to determine meaning.

        Use a literature guide to locate a critique of an author's work.

        Make audiotape and videotaped presentations.

        Define and locate examples of figures of speech (metaphor, simile,

alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, assonance, and hyperbole).

        Determine the primary thesis of an essay and identify the essay's supporting evidence.

                  Twelfth Grade Media Skills that each Senior should master:

        Use the Occupational Outlook Handbook and similar resources to

      determine job requirements and prospects.

        Use a guide to determine the requirements and programs available at a college.

        Use a parliamentary procedures guide to determine correct order.

        Use a parliamentary procedures guide to frame motions and amendments. Study word etymologies.

        Recognize that the Monthly Catalog is an index to government documents. Recognize symbols used in the Library of Congress Classification System. Compare and contrast bibliographic citation formats.

Magazines in Media Center 2008-2009

Alabama Game & Fish 

Alabama Heritage 

Artist's Magazine

'Bama

Beadwork

Black Enterprise 

Boating World

Brides

Car and Driver

Consumer Reports

Cooking Light

Cooking with Paula Deen

Country Living

Create & Decorate

Crochet World

Deer & Deer Hunting

Discover

Ebony

Essence

Exercise & Health

Farm Journal

Fast Company

Field & Stream

Fitness

Garden Design

Golf

Good Housekeeping

Health

Hoop

Instyle

Just CrossStitch

Modern Bride

Money

Mother Earth News

Muscle & Fitness

National Geographic

National Wildlife

Neighbors

Newsweek

'O' The Oprah Magazine

Organic Gardening

Overdrive

Parenting

People (Espanol)

People

Petersen’s 4 Wheeler

Popular Mechanics

Popular Science

Quiltmaker

Science News

Seventeen

Sew News

Shape

Southern Living

Sports Illustrated

Sport Truck

Step by Step Wire Jewelry

Sunset

Teen Vogue

Time

U S News

Vogue

Woman's Day

Young Money