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The SJND Miller Library's mission is to provide you with diverse resources to meet your information needs and curiosities; empower you to take initiative in furthering the depth and breadth of your education; teach you how to locate, access, evaluate, use, and properly cite information sources; and help you become a compassionate, discerning, and self-directed lifelong learner.
2,000+ books
3,548 eBooks
530 audiobooks
30+ current textbooks
20+ full-text databases
10 laptops available for checkout
1 conference room
Come visit Mrs. Cornett, MLIS at the Library or email/gchat her at mcornett@sjnd.org for writing + research help, reading recommendations, and more. Don't see a book you'd like? Add it to our Book Order. You will be notified when it is in.
Hours
Open Monday - Friday | 8 am - 4 pm
Closed Weekends, Holidays, & July

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Library Resources

Encyclopedia Brittanica
Search articles, images, and videos provided by Merriam-Webster, EBSCO, Web's Best Sites, and more.
GALE Databases
Search 16+ robust databases for academic journal articles and more.
JSTOR
Access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Register for 100 free articles a month.
Library Catalog
Search the Miller Library's catalog of print books.
New York Times 
Access award-winning reporting on current events and more.
NewsBank 
Access local newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle and search the following databases for current news articles: Access World News, Black Life in America, and Hispanic Life in America. 
Sora/OverDrive eBooks
Search the Miller Library's collection of ebooks.
 

Open Resources

SweetSearch
SweetSearch leverages Google to search only a fully vetted whitelist of websites. The original index was created by 50+ librarians, educators, and researchers who collectively invested over 100,000 hours in finding the best resources.
RefSeek
RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

Google Scholar
"From one place, search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other websites."
Infoplease
"An encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas, and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records."
Open Library
Search for a book and choose "ebook" for online full-text access.
Virtual Learning Resources Center
"Indexes thousands of the best academic information websites, selected by teachers and library professionals worldwide." Filter searches by subject, primary sources, and more.
The SJND Miller Library's mission is to provide you with diverse resources to meet your information needs and curiosities; empower you to take initiative in furthering the depth and breadth of your education; teach you how to locate, access, evaluate, use, and properly cite information sources; and help you become a compassionate, discerning, and self-directed lifelong learner.