Eureka Springs High School Library Website
Contact Information
Tracy Ledesma, Librarian
tledesma@es.k12.ar.us
479-253-8875
2 Lake Lucerne
Eureka Springs AR 72632
Reading for Pleasure
Free eBooks
Books to Movies
Book Ratings
What’s New
Announcements
April 2025
April is National Poetry Month. Be sure to check out the Google Classroom daily posts regarding poetry materials and websites.
1-12-2025
Students, check out the library Google Classroom during the next two weeks for the The top 100 books you should read before you go to college .
And, then it's Holocaust Education Week with postings of nonfiction and historical fiction books on this topic.
Summer E book opportunities
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks
Arkansas Library2Go (you'll need a local library card)
Arkansas State Library ProQuest Ebook Central
Google Play Free & Popular Classics
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Have something on your mind that you would like to read? Email Mrs. Ledesma the title and author – always taking requests.
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Interested in learning a second or third language? Check out the free learning platform called Mango Languages on the
Arkansas State Library website. You can choose from over 70 language courses. Free to all residents of Arkansas. Click HERE to get started.
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Have some fun and take a book genre quiz. Some websites are listed below, or google “book genre quizzes” for others.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/which-genre-are-you/
https://bookstr.com/quiz/quiz-which-book-genre-are-you/
https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=what-book-genre-is-right-you
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A new visitor to the patio!
Visitor last week – red fox. Couldn’t get any closer.
Reading for Information
Destiny Library System (our school library online catalog)
Arkansas State Library (free search engines)
Library of Congress (Research & Reference Services)
Social Science Research Network
Guide to Online Research (with lots of research websites)
The preeminent internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
Pros and Cons Research
Advanced Placement Classes
Research & Citation Process
Research Companion
Built to help students do more effective scholarly research with short videos organized into nine Learning Modules that answer questions
like "How do I choose a topic?", "How do I evaluate sources?" and “How do I write a thesis statement?”
HeLIOS = Hemingway Library Information Online Skills Tutorial – a graphic novel tutorial
Developed to help students do more effective research and assist educators in teaching the basics for information literacy core principles of finding, evaluating, and using information.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Library Photos
View from the circulation desk.
Flowers from the girls
View across patio