At LHS, we use Destiny Discover by Follett to store our library catalog. Use the LHS Library Catalog from any computer on or off campus. Sign in using your FUHSD username and password to view library checkouts, fines, place holds, and renew books. To view textbook checkouts, scroll to the bottom of this page for instructions.
We also use OverDrive's Sora app for eBook and audiobooks. You may use the LHS Overdrive account from school or home, from a web browser or on a mobile device.
There is no fantastic Destiny Discover mobile app. Destiny Discover uses responsive design, so your mobile experience through your web browser should be adequate.
We have several eBook & audiobook collections:
Sora - app created by Overdrive, browser and web app for our largest collection of fiction eBooks & audiobooks; also home to many great nonfiction titles
Database eBook collections (EBSCO eBooks, Gale eBooks, JSTOR, ProQuest eBook Central) - These house an immense number of full-text eBooks. Some include popular fiction titles.
Please visit the How to Access eBooks and Audiobooks document to get started. This will help you with our various eBook subscriptions. You will need to be logged into your FUHSD Google account to view the doc.
How to Place a Book on Hold For Pickup At the LHS Library
These instructions are for you if..
The book you wanted to read isn’t currently available
You’re off campus and want to reserve a book for pickup when you get back on campus
Step 1:Find a book in our catalog & put it on hold (see instructions below for placing a hold)
Step 2: Wait 24 hours for us to process the request. When you put a book on hold, it looks like it’s ready right away, but it’s not!
Step 3: After at least 24 hours, come pick up your hold at the library. The library is open 7:30am-4pm MWTH and 9am-4pm Tues/Fri
Step 4: Go to the circulation desk and let us know you have a book on hold. NOTE: We will be checking out the books to you -- they are due back 2 weeks from the checkout date. You can renew a book remotely if you need to: Video Instructions for Renewing a Book
Step 5: To return your books, please follow the instructions in step 4, this time explaining that you are back to return a book.
Instructions for putting a book on hold for checkout:
Head to https://lhs.fuhsd.org/academics/library on your computer or smartphone browser.
To look for a book by title, author or subject, type it into the search field on the left hand side of the page. To browse the collection, click the Destiny Discover button below the search field.
You will land in our Destiny Discover Catalog by either method. Once you’ve tracked down a book, check to make sure the title is “IN.” If it is OUT, you can still place a hold, but it won’t be available until it is returned by the student who is currently reading it.
Login with your FUHSD Google Account.
Click Hold
You will be notified via email when your book is available for pickup. Librarians will check out the book to you when they pull the book from the shelves. If you’d like to remove a hold, login to Destiny Discover again and select the menu options icon at the top left corner of the screen.
Click on Holds from the drop down menu.
Select the book that you want to remove the hold from.
Click Unhold.
Books that are not picked up after a week will be returned and placed back on the shelves. If you need help, please contact the LHS Library during normal business hours at (408) 366-7731 or email us at lhs_library_staff@fuhsd.org
How to Renew a Book at the LHS Library
You can do this in person or via Internet browser. Ask your librarian to renew the book for you, or follow these steps if you’re using your computer:
Go to the LHS student portal at https://lhs.fuhsd.org/student-portal and click on the LHS Library button on the right under the Schoology button.
Click on the Destiny Discover link.
Click Login (top right) and Sign in to Destiny Discover using your student Google login.
Go to the “My Stuff” tab and click “Checkouts”
Find the book you want to renew and click the More icon (3-horizontal-dots) at the bottom right corner. Click renew to renew your book.
Visit https://fuhsdlibrary.follettdestiny.com/portal/portal to see all books or textbooks currently checked out to you, and to see if you have any outstanding fines.
Select Lynbrook from the school list, then click Login or the login icon at the top right and log in with your FUHSD Google Account.
Click My Stuff from the top row of tabs. Select Checkouts to see items checked out to you and Fines to view any library or textbooks with fines.
For more information and pictorial instructions, view Destiny Check 2024
How to pay fines:
In Person:
Please bring cash or check payable to “Lynbrook High School ASB” to Ms. Lawrence in the ASB Office, Room 006B, between 8am to 4pm.
Pay Online:
Log in to the Student Store. Once logged in:
1. Click “My Account”
2. Click on "Unpaid Items"
3. Click "Pay Balance" to add the fine to the cart
4. Or select “Pay All” on the bottom right
5. Click on the cart to check out and pay
Please visit the Library if you have questions about a fine.
Contact Supriya Lawrence at supriya_lawrence@fuhsd.org if you have any questions about making a payment.
If you want a recommendation, fill out a Your Friendly LHS Book Recommendation Service form.
The Students For Literacy club partners up with the LHS librarians periodically throughout the school year for Book Matches. Everyone is welcome to join in. Book Matches are conducted near holidays.
Have you ever attended a Book Talk? Mrs. Ashworth invites students to attend book talks in the Library during lunch on certain Tuesdays. She showcases a variety of books we have or books we're getting.
Still need a recommendation? Check out the links below for ideas.
We partner with the San Jose Public Library and the Santa Clara County Library District. FUHSD students have access to local public library resources with their free account.
If you can't find a resource at the LHS library, we can communicate with our community libraries to help out. Just ask!
Get your San Jose Public Library eLibrary card today! Apply for SJPL eLibrary card.
This eLibrary Card provides access to online learning, electronic checkouts, streaming services, and downloads available through the San José Public Library.
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An easy-to-use search interface! When you use Explora, you are searching all of our EBSCO databases. Includes access to high-quality articles licensed from reputable publishers, easy-to-browse categories organized by popular topic to give students research ideas, topic overviews that provide students with a starting point for research, and more.
A dedicated search interface for all of our EBSCO school databases. When you use Host, you have the option to search by topic or by alphabet, to select all of the EBSCO databases that LHS subscribes to or a select few. Our EBSCO school databases give students access to high-quality articles licensed from reputable publishers.
Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary academic resource designed to meet the extensive research needs of high school students enrolled in various advanced and college-prep courses. The database has more than 5,400 full-text academic journals and magazines, and over 592,000 photos, maps and flags.
Literary Reference Center Plus features an expansive collection of author biographies, plot summaries and full-text essays from leading publishers. It also includes literary reference books and monographs, cover-to-cover full text for literary magazines and book reviews from the most prestigious publications. It offers poems from hundreds of sources, short stories, classic texts, author interviews and much more.
The History Reference Center features full text for more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.The database also includes full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals and contains nearly 57,000 historical documents; more than 77,000 biographies of historical figures; more than 113,000 historical photos and maps; and more than 80 hours of historical video.
Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for more than 330 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full-text television and radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, and NPR.
 Points of View Reference Center is designed to provide students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Also included are articles from periodicals, books, biographies, radio and television transcripts, primary source documents, images and videos. |
 Read It! was formerly called The English Language Learner Reference Center. It is a multi-purpose online information resource with materials designed to help ELLs conduct research, build background knowledge and develop study skills, as well as facilitating their future transition to non-ELL materials. |
The Science Reference Center contains full text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.
TOPICsearch is a current events database that contains full text for over 140,000 articles from nearly 260 diverse sources including international newspapers, EBSCO's collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. Students can search this database to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in the news including controversial opinions and viewpoints.
Designed specifically for high school students, this collection offers nearly 8,000 eBook titles that support a quality learning experience across all academic subject areas, from History, to Language & Literature, to Science & Technology. Content includes a selection of classic literary works, important historical documents and general reference materials.
 Britannica School works similarly to Wikipedia, but is considered a more trustworthy source. Britannica School also includes Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, periodicals, atlas, world data, the Classics, biographies, news, multimedia, and more. |
Britannica Escolar is the Spanish version of Britannica. It gives you the same quality of articles, the same great citation and filtering options, but in Spanish!
Gale eBooks, formerly known as The Gale Virtual Reference Library, is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Students will find deep research that includes history-themed essays and literary criticism.
Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues.
Gale's Opposing Viewpoints In Context is a rich resource for debaters and includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more. A category on the National Debate Topic provides quick and easy access to content on frequently studied and discussed issues. Periodical content covers current events, news and commentary, economics, environmental issues, political science, and more.
Specific titles include The New York Times, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, American Scientist, and Education Week.
ProQuest Central Student covers every course, and emerging topics. More than 160 subjects are represented, across more than 10,000 full-text titles, with over 5,000 being academic journals. It includes videos across subjects such as business, entrepreneurship, science, psychology, social sciences, health and more. Adding to the diversity of content are transcripts of top radio and television programs, as well as blogs, news wires, and government reports.
The ProQuest eLibrary is a general reference aggregation of periodical and digital media content with editorial guidance for novice researchers. If you compare it to EBSCO, this is like Explora. You can also do a search with a different interface (like you can with EBSCO Host)--https://search.proquest.com/elibrary?accountid=194120
ProQuest eBook Central is an eBook subscription database (over 12,000 titles) to support multiple subject areas (English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology).
CultureGrams™ is a leading reference for concise and reliable cultural information on the countries of the world, providing country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. Individual reports covering 200+ countries, all 50 United States, and the Canadian provinces, are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated as new information becomes available.
SIRS® Issues Researcher makes the grade by offering only the very best article selections from more than 2,000 international sources. Analysis and opinions cover the pros, cons, and everything in between of 345+ social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Editorially created content with engaging Essential Questions with answers, and viewpoint articles help build solid foundations for understanding complex global issues.
ProQuest Research Companion is ProQuest’s flagship information literacy product. It was built to help students do more effective scholarly research and to support educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information. More than 80 short videos are organized into nine Learning Modules that answer questions like "How do I choose a topic?" "Where do I find information?" and "How do I evaluate sources?"
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Each single-themed CQ Researcher weekly report offers in-depth, unbiased coverage of a pressing political or social issue such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Archive coverage begins with 1923, making it a great way to research both current and historical topics. |
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Our library catalog is a database where students can find print and eBook resources from any computer. In addition, the companion Destiny Discover app allow students to check the catalog database from any device, view checkouts, renew books, and serves as an eReader for eBooks purchased by LHS librarians (including those located in Gale Virtual Reference Library). |
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A leading peer-reviewed journal in its field for more than two decades, The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) was the first scholarly publication on robotics research. IJRR offers incisive and thought-provoking original research papers and articles, perceptive reviews, and lively editorials on ground-breaking trends issues, technical developments, and theories in robotics by the outstanding scholars and practitioners in the field. The Journal covers more than just narrow technical advances-it embraces a wide variety of topics. |
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JSTOR consists entirely of scholarly journal articles from titles in various disciplines including economics, history, political science, and sociology, business, education, law and psychology. |
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JoVE, the Journal of Visualized experiments, is the world's first peer reviewed scientific video journal. Established in 2006, JoVE is devoted to publishing scientific research in a visual format to help researchers overcome two of the biggest challenges facing the scientific research community today: poor reproductability and the time and labor intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques. |
We have lots of research resources for you!
Please visit the library to view the print copies a variety of educational and popular magazine titles. We subscribe to news, science, art, cooking magazines and more!
Our Current Subscriptions:
We also subscribe to the New York Times online edition. This is available at Lynbrook only. Click on the link above or simply type nytimes.com in the URL field of your browser.
For more newspapers, please select one of our databases above that contains news from various publishers:
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Read and subscribe to our WordPress book review blog to check out book reviews from staff and students!
You are welcome to submit a book review of your own by completing the form located under the "Submit a Review" tab on the WordPress site.
Those who submit reviews are rewarded with invitations to parties and free books, so keep your eyes peeled for opportunities.
Amy Ashworth, Library Media Teacher
(408) 366-7752
Susan Lucas, Library Media Specialist
(408) 366-7731
Monday 8:00am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8:00am - 3:00pm
Wednesday 8:00am - 3:00pm
Thursday 8:00am - 3:00pm
Friday 8:00am - 12:00pm
NO HOMEWORK CENTER DURING FINALS WEEK
8:00am - 4:00pm Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with late opening at 8:20am on Wednesday and Friday
Mondays and Thursdays 3:50-5:00pm; Wednesdays 3:05-5:00pm
Sunroom 1 & 2 provide locations for up to 10 students. Each sunroom comes equipped with a large screen (HDMI cable), and a whiteboard.
You may reserve Sunrooms at the circulation desk. The schedule shows a week at a time. Note the following:
