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Searchable Databases
Encyclopedia Britannica Online: Encyclopedia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. It also maintains links to over 130,000 Web sites. Available on campus only.
EBSCOhost Web: This comprehensive database contains full text of 500 high school magazines, 96,600 biographies, 76,000 primary source documents, 540 pamphlets, 150 reference books and 116,000 images of photos, maps, and flags. Includes Health Source, Newspaper Source and TOPICsearch, Novelist, Science ReferenceCenter, MagillOnLiterature, MagillOnAuthors, and Teacher Resources. Available without a login while on campus. Access off-campus is available by clicking here.
Electric Library - A database periodical articles, online books, maps and broadcast transcripts. Available without a login while on campus. Access off-campus is available by clicking here.
Facts on File – Today’s Science presents the latest scientific discoveries and the fundamental concepts that underlie them. Today’s Science covers all the topics that today’s students study: health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science, and science and society. Available without a login while on campus. Access off-campus is available by clicking here.
Issues & Controversies @ FACTS.com is a reference database that combines authoritative factual analysis, covering clear explanations of opposing points of view and numerous special features, so students can quickly grasp the essentials of even the most complex topics. Available without a login while on campus. Access off-campus is available by clicking here.
Questia - Choose from thousands of popular research topics with librarian-selected books and journal articles from this online library. Access via individual logins for faculty and student grade levels 10 through 12.
Libraries
Ventura County Libraries
University of California Library System
The Black Box theater renovation is nearly done and we expect a dedication over the summer. In the meantime we are accepting orders for seat inscription plates.
There are 70 seats and the donation requested to inscribe a donor plate is $295. Donors may write up to 2 lines-- 22 characters each line.
Football Reunion Announced
Details
• dinner on campus at 5 pm before the 7 p.m. game at Nordhoff versus Western Christian.
• cost will be $50 per person and includes beer and wine, a football ticket, and a newly-styled Wildcat alumni ball cap.
RSVP to jbrown@villanovaprepadmin.org, 805 646-1464, ext 126
Celebrations for the 87th annual graduation at Villanova Preparatory School begin with a Baccalaureate Mass at 7 pm on Friday, May 25, at St Thomas Aquinas Parish, located at 185 St. Thomas Drive in Ojai. Commencement exercises are set for 11:00 a.m., Saturday, May 26, in front of the Villanova Grotto.ps.