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Welcome to Your Metropolitan Learning Center Library!
Your MLC Library Staff
Contact information:
- Media Specialist: Molly Soloway
- msoloway@pps.net
- (503) 916-5737
Access Books
Click or tap MLC Library Catalog to navigate our Online Catalog or use to the Sora app to look for e-books...
If you want to access free e-books in the MLC Online Catalog, choose "eBook" as your material type. (see below)
There's a video* and a slideshow about using the Sora app!
* Note: We now have "single sign-on" through Google Chrome for Sora. If you are logged into your PPS Google account, you won't have to log in again.Thanks!
For even more, go to PPS Library Services
NOTE: If you're accessing this with your phone, be sure to use the left-hand "hamburger menu" ≡ so you can access all of our site's features and menus!
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MLC Library Mission Statement:
The mission of the MLC library is to match students with books and materials that provide "mirrors" to reflect their own experiences and "windows" into the lives of others, multiple perspectives of history to understand how the present came to be, and resources to invent the future of what could be! We are here to share the ethical, wise, and creative use of reliable and trustworthy information resources. We are here to inspire reading and listening, wondering and seeking, questioning and taking action.
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Try Shelver, a reshelving Game
Try your hand at reshelving books in the proper order. Show off your stuff and become a Master of the Universe! To try the game, click here
Magnetic Poetry!
Click here for magnetic poetry!Web Site Evaluation
Click here to review some good criteria for evaluating a website!Sample Site #1
Click here for sample site #1:www.aspartame.netSample Site #2
Click here for sample site #2: www.dhmo.orgComputer Programming
Go to CODE.ORG
Banned and Challenged Books
Click here to read all about banned and challenged books - frequently challenged books, banned/challenged classics, and more. Resources, information, and FAQs about banned books from the American Library Association website.Volunteer @ the Library
There are always jobs to be done in the library. Please reach out to Molly if you are interested in helping.
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Your Library Account...
Want to know what you have checked out?
You can check your MLC library account from anywhere you're connected using your PPS student Google account or your PPS student account. Find out what you have checked out, when it's due, and even renew books if you want to.
Look for "Log In" in the upper right-hand corner. Click or tap "Log In", then click the "Sign in with Google."
LINK to Destiny, the MLC Library Catalog
Research and Other Links
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Research Tools
Remember: Log in to your PPS account so PPS research tools will open for you!
Video - Find & Hold book in Destiny Collection
Video - Navigating 5 Types of Ebooks
Sign-in hint + video - How to use World Book Online
Video - Websites Tab in PPS Library Catalog
Video - Find & Open OSLIS Gale
Video - Use, Highlight & Take Notes from OSLIS Gale
Videos + examples - Online Note-Taking Table
Videos - Make & Share Teamwork Folders
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Multnomah County Library Catalog
MLC ORCA Blog (Temporarily Unavailable)
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Multnomah County Library Databases
Answerland: Chat with a Librarian 24/7
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Multnomah County Library Homework CenterNewspapers
The Oregonian (current news only)
The New York Times
Want to know the order of any series? Click here to find out!
Evaluate web sites with RADCAB
