Media Center/Library
Welcome to the Eastside Library Media Center!
The Library Media Center is the information and resource hub for the three academies:
GoPA - School of Government and Public Administration,
CAHTS - School of Culinary Arts, Hospitality and Tourism
and SOIT- School of informational Technology
which are all housed on the Eastside Educational Campus. It provides resource materials and a place to read and study.
The goals of the Media Center are:
1. Help students develop the research skills needed in our information rich world.
2. Collaborate and support teachers curricular and research objectives.
3. Promote a lifelong interest in reading by providing when possible titles that cater to diverse backgrounds, interest and opinions.
Ms. Cruz, Library Media Specialist is pleased and eager to assist you with all of your academic needs. The Media Center is open to students before school, during lunch periods, afterschool and available to teachers throughout the day. Students doing work and research have priority use of the computers.
If the computers are reserved by teachers for class use, they will not be available for independent student use.
The Media Center has over 14,000 titles, 22 computers and many interactive databases, providing students with the resources and information they need for projects.
Teens' Top 10 Books
The library received copies of the 26 books nominated for the 2018 Teens' Top Ten. All were added to the library. We had also received the Top Ten Book nominees in 2016. Student reading groups from around the country choose the books.
NEW Library Webpage.
Go to the Eastside Library webpage. It contains more information than this page.
Research Links
The New York Times http://nytimesnie.newspaperdirect.com User: 200326544
The Record User: 56299 This is a gannett paper
The Herald News User: 56299 This is a gannett paper
ABC-CLIO Databases User: pps-student
EBSCO Databases from the State Library Jersey Clicks password may be needed outside school
Scholastic SRI and Read180 Links from district Humanities page
Pals Plus Libraries includes Paterson Public Library
