Library
Sharon Elliott, Librarian Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Crossroads College Preparatory School Library welcomes the entire school community. Students, faculty, staff, and parents all have borrowing privileges. The resources below will help in your research.
Current Reads -- Find out what the Crossroads community is reading and discover a good book for yourself.
Literature Resource Center
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Research Databases
Ask Sharon or your teacher for the username and password required to access the databases. 
Gale Student Resources in Context
Provides magazine and newspaper articles on all core subjects from science to literature to history.
Contains articles, illustrations, experiments, biographies and links to web sites related to scientific topics.
Includes full-text articles and thousands of images in the visual arts. Password and login required.
Oxford Reference Online
Allows you to search a broad range of Oxford University Press dictionaries and other reference works.
A collection of articles about authors, genres, themes, and movements in the Western literary tradition.
Focuses on how human beings relate to the environment. The database contains 35 years of content from books, journals, magazines, and government documents.
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Local Libraries 
Weekly delivery and pick-up of library materials are available at Crossroads.
Municipal Library Consortium
Nine independent community libraries in St. Louis County.
MOBIUS
University libraries -- Saint Louis University, Washington University, University of Missouri - St. Louis and others.
Libraries of the Missouri Historical Society, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the St. Louis Art Museum.
Electronic Books
An electronic version of a 5 volume encyclopedia published by Salem Press, this resource offers biographical and critical essays on over 600 musicians. It covers musical theater, rock, gospel, jazz, rap, Latin, opera, classical and other genres and includes discographies and many photographs. Password and login required.
Critical Insights provides online access to the complete content of books on specific works and authors frequently taught in high school English classes. Password and login required.
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MLA and APA citation formats
www.easybib.com/librarians Scroll down to MLA 7th Edition Guides and APA 6th Edition Guides.
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Crossroads College Preparatory School is a member of the St. Louis Regional Library Network, which entitles students and faculty to borrow books from some local university libraries. Ask for an "Info-Pass" in our library.
