Gardiner Library and Learning Commons

The renovated Gardiner Learning Commons — complete with a new mural, furniture, flooring, and more! — A Campus-Wide Resource

Gardiner Library and Learning Commons is the center of design thinking on campus, with skilled and attentive staff members who facilitate students' brainstorming, collaboration, and problem solving. The Learning Commons is a resource center where boys can bring their curiosity, develop their ideas, and learn research skills and digital citizenship.

Databases are reliable sources of information available digitally. Below is a list of databases and research sources available to students to help them conduct more efficient and effective research. Most will self-authenticate on campus, and easily export records to Noodletools, or ask for help!

CREDO Complete Core Collection
GALE - Power Search all databases or choose below - many provided by NovelNY:
- Academic OneFile: Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
- Business Insights: Essentials - Company profiles, industry reports and financial reports, as well as business magazines and newspapers.
- Computer Science: Business and technical publications in the computer, electronics, and telecommunications industries.
- E-Book Collection: Encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.
- Educator's Reference Complete: Great for grad school! Periodicals covering pre-school to college and most educational specialties. Includes full-text for many titles cited in ERIC.
- Entrepreneurship: Analyze business insights, tips, strategies, and success stories.
- Environmental Studies And Policies Collection: Investigate environmental issues with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, policymakers, and corporate interests.
- Fine Arts: Search millions of articles about drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.
- General OneFile: News and periodical articles on a wide range of topics.
- Health and Medicine: Full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a variety of personal health information sources.
- Information Science: Access articles covering all aspects of managing and maintaining information and technology.
- Informe Academico: Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals both from and about Latin America.
- Leadership and Management: Search authoritative periodical content covering topics like organizational dynamics, adult learning, and more.
- OneFile News: Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields.
- Opposing Viewpoints In Context: Over 21,000 pro/con viewpoints. Includes a variety of resource types: reference, news, primary sources, multimedia and more.
- Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine: Access academic journals and magazines covering the fields of physical therapy, physical fitness, and sports medicine.
- Popular Magazines: Access the most searched magazines across Gale OneFile focusing on current events, sports, science, and health issues.
- Psychology: Find authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
- Religion and Philosophy: Research the impact of religion on culture throughout history, including literature, arts, and language.
- Research In Context: MS: Magazines, newspapers, primary sources and videos for students in grades 6 to 8.
- Science: Access information on the latest developments across a range of scientific disciplines.
- US History: Search balanced coverage of events in U.S. history.
- World History: Access balanced coverage of events in world history and scholarly work being established in the field.

Britannica Middle
Britannica High
Britannica Escoloar EBsecundaria
New York Times - access with your T-P email address anywhere!
Nature and Scientific American
Directory Of Open Access Journals
Project Gutenberg - ebooks in the public domain

Sources and Citations

Trinity-Pawling uses the MLA (Modern Language Association)'s method, using parenthetical citations. This way, all classes teach one method that is consistently reinforced across the curriculum. The most recent edition of the MLA Manual (9th) is available in the library or online; and many other good sources can also be found online. The most important part of this process is to learn to give credit where credit is due, therefore we recommend using online software like Noodletools to format the source data into a proper Works Cited page . Two great sources for help are Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL) and The Elements of Style: a timeless source for the best written English.

Primary Sources

Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events occurred or could also be memoirs and oral histories of past events.

Avoiding Plagiarism

Trinity-Pawling's Honor Code specifies that every student will do his own work honestly, and attribute others' work properly, including AI. Not following the code can bring serious consequences, not unlike those at colleges and universities. We use Turnitin to ensure work is honest and properly cited!

More Research Sources

CDC
CIA World Factbook
Data.Gov
Gilder Lehrman Institute Of American History
NASA
NYC Open Data
NY TIMES -
- Visit nytimes.com/passes. Create a free NYTimes.com account using your school email address. If you already have an NYTimes.com account associated with your school email address, log in with those credentials.
Online Symbolism Dictionary - University Of Michigan
UN Data - 32 databases within

Tips for Primary Source Research

In your search: include the words - diary, diaries, letters, papers, documents, documentary, or correspondence.
Combine these terms with the event or person you are researching. (Example: civil war diary)
Also search by subject for specific people and events, then scan the titles for those keywords or others such as memoirs, autobiography, report, or personal narratives.
Search for file type: pdf

Creative Commons Sources:

Creative Commons copyright licenses and tools forge a balance inside the traditional “all rights reserved” setting that copyright law creates. They are a simple, standardized way to grant copyright permissions to creative work. The combination of our tools and our users is a vast and growing digital commons, a pool of content that can be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and built upon, all within the boundaries of copyright law. Try to use creative commons items when you can!

Royalty-Free Music Sources

Most popular music is protected by copyright law and shouldn't be used in videos without proper permission. However, some music is provided via public domain or Creative Commons and other licenses which permit reuse with proper attribution.

MakerSpace

A Hub of Active Learning

Join us in the MakerSpace, located on the lower level of Gardiner Library and Learning Commons, where students and faculty can engage in hands-on learning and design creative solutions.

It is one of three spaces that allow students to design, create, prototype, and test all within a safe learning environment. Our spaces serve as a home base that fosters active response and extension of what takes place in the traditional classrooms and labs throughout campus.

Makerspace

Prototyping with 3D printers, a CNC Router, and a Laser engraver/cutter
Wood, plastics
Studio audio/visual materials
Electronics including Arduino and Raspberry Pi
Ideation lab area

Faculty in the MakerSpace

All faculty are welcome to host a class in the MakerSpace to work on a specific project with their students! Please use the Resource Request in Veracross to reserve the space or see Bob Reilly to brainstorm project ideas or for usage guidelines, safety precautions, and clean-up procedures. Come by to check it out and ask questions!

Other Tools

Library and Learning Commons Hours

Monday-Friday 7:30 AM - 9:30 PM
Saturday 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sunday 12:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Today's library is all about inquiry and learning to solve problems. I hope to equip the students with the research and innovation skills they need to succeed in college and the workforce.

Amy Foster,
Director of Gardiner Library & Learning Commons

Our Mission and practices

Gardiner Library and Learning Commons supports the mission of the School by providing a resource center where students can work alone or together; learn research, digital citizenship, and critical thinking skills; and read from a collection of publications that reflects the needs and diversity of our community.

Trinity-Pawling School Boarding and Day for Boys - Grades 7-12/PG

Gardiner Library and Learning Commons

A Campus-Wide Resource

Library Catalog

Library Catalog

Research and Databases

Research and Databases

Sources and Citations

Sources and Citations

Primary Sources

Avoiding Plagiarism

Tips for Primary Source Research

Creative Commons Sources:

Royalty-Free Music Sources

MakerSpace

A Hub of Active Learning

Makerspace

Faculty in the MakerSpace

Other Tools

Library and Learning Commons Hours

Our Mission and practices

Meet the Library Staff

Amy Foster

Abigail Gallagher

Jen Lopez

Bob Reilly