PHS Library & Media Center    

Librarian: Kathleen Barrere                                                                   Library Hours 7:30 – 4:00 Monday – Friday

925-473-2390

kbarrere@pittsburg.k12.ca.us

The PHS Library and Media Center is the information hub of our beautiful new campus. Since all textbooks, library books, and teachers’ editions circulate through the library, it is the indispensable resource center for students and staff. The library has a book collection of over 18,000 volumes, numerous magazines and newspapers, and countless online resources available on the library computers. Students and staff can check out books for recreational reading or research projects. The non-fiction collection is designed to support the school curriculum and contains a great variety of books specifically selected to provide information that is useful for students’ research projects.  The library computers are the gateway to Destiny, our library catalog, the Internet, and Microsoft Office tools for creating a variety of documents. Come “check it out.”

Useful Links:

Reference and Research:

                  Destiny Library Catalog

                  Contra Costa County Library

Current Events:   (obtain login and password from librarian)

                   Contra Costa Times Online

                   San Francisco Chronicle Online

                   Wall Street Journal Online

How to Write a Research Paper:

                   MLA Guide to Research Papers

                   How to List Citations

Reading Recommendations- Book Lists:

                  ALA Best Books for Young Adults

                  California Dept. of Education Recommended Literature

                  California Reading List (STAR)

                  College Bound Reading List

                 Modern Library 100 Best Fiction and Nonfiction