Providence Media Center
How to use this Web Page
Providence School provides online resources for student use at school or home via remote access on the Internet. The online subscriptions below require a username and password. See your media specialist for a copy of this information.
The Jacksonville Public Library (see link below) provides a wealth of information and resources to the community. Most of these databases can be accessed via the Internet, but they require a Public Library Card number. Students and parents can find the library card application form online or in the Media Center from your media specialist.
Summer Reading
Summer reading forms are available on the Forms & Packets page.
Research Links
Search the Providence Upper and Lower School Collection online
for book information and in which Media Center the title can be found.
World Book Online Reference Center
Complete World Book Encyclopedia with added features: related periodical articles, maps, multimedia, editor-reviewed websites and The Spanish Student Discovery Encyclopedia
Encarta Online
Online Encyclopedia
InfoTrac Gold Online Databases
General periodical and reference book database and a complete one-stop source for information on social/controverial issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. This site includes the following: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center, Student Resource Center Gold, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Kid Infobits, LitFinder, Global Issues in Context, Testing and Education Reference Center, History Resource Center US and History Resource Center World
Gale's comprehensive literary resource provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. The LRC covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of the most-studied authors.
This database is now available online from the Jacksonville Public Library.
Go to RESEARCH DATABASES. A library card no. is required for access. See your media specialist for card application forms. For research topics you can't find anywhere, go to ASK A LIBRARIAN at the JAX Public Library Homepage. You can email your question or chat online with a reference librarian.
eLibrary/ProQuest Online Databases
eLibrary Curriculum
General information database with over 200 full-text periodical, reference and multimedia resources.
History Study Center
Historical reference database
Proquest Learning Literature
Literature database
eLibrary Science
Science database
eLibrary Elementary
K-5 general information database
Provides over 5000 primary and secondary source documents related to key topics in 20th century America. Includes letters, editorial cartoons, streaming video, websites, maps, advertisements and DBQs.
Provides information on the cultures of 187 countries & territories. Includes maps, statistics & indepth coverage in 25 categories; provides special features such as photos, recipes, famous persons and the 50 states.
Maps101 is a unique and comprehensive geography-centric online resource that makes the teaching of social studies interactive and engaging. See the media specialists for the login information.
Online Libraries
UNF Library
University of North Florida Library
FCCJ Library
Florida Community College at Jacksonville Library
Public Library
Jacksonville Public Library
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Mrs. Decastro
Upper School Media Specialist
(904)223-5270, x2145
Mrs. Perkins
Lower School Media Specialist
sperkins@prov.org
(904)223-5270, x2150
Upper School Media Center Hours:
7:15 AM - 4:00 PM on regular school days
(Not open after school on half days)
After School Library Policies & Procedure
Lower School Media Center Hours:
8:00 AM - 2:25 PM on regular school days
(Not open after school)
Lower School Library Policies & Procedures
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2701 Hodges Blvd. Jacksonville, FL 32224 · Phone: (904) 223-5270 · Fax: (904) 223-3028
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Providence School of Jacksonville, Florida is accredited by SACS, FCIS, ACSI and FKC. Providence School is a private college preparatory school featuring preschool, lower school, middle school, high school and is a ministry of New Life Christian Fellowship, Jacksonville, Florida.
