The
Middle School Library Media Center
provides opportunities for students and staff
to effectively use information and ideas for learning,
personal growth and
social responsibility.
Library Media
Center Staff
Lisa Perkowski,Library Media Specialist Maryanne Bloom,
Library Aide 858-3100, Ext 12800
Middle School
Library Card Catalog
You can use the card catalog to
find books.
Conduct searches by author, title, subject or keyword.
Click here to access the
Middle School Library Card Catalog
Databases
Check out these NOVEL databases
from New York State.
Students need to see Mrs.
Perkowski for passwords.
CultureGrams:
Aims to give information about the world's countries and peoples
in order to foster a better understanding and appreciation of
those who are different from us.
EBSCO Host: This database
provides access to over 750 magazines, through Masterfile Select
and Topic Search. Primary Search gives full text of Children &
YA periodicals.
Gale group:
This group of databases provides information on businesses,
health resources, authors, as well as reprints of magazines,
newspapers & reference books. Includes Informe, containing over
40 full-text Spanish language and bilingual magazines and a
database of newspapers, New York State newspapers, and an Index
to America’s top five national papers.
Grolier Online: This
database includes encyclopedias: Grolier Multimedia
Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, Amazing Animals of the
World, and The New Book of Popular Science, as well as edited
websites, newspapers and magazines. It's a good place to start
your research. If you are using it from home, you will need a
user ID and password from Mrs. Perkowski. Funded by the NYS
NOVEL project.
TeachingBooks.Net: (From
the O-U BOCES School Library System) - Author Programs, Book
Discussions & Resources.
Tumblebooks:A new way to read books! Access to eight categories
containing picture books, early readers, chapter books, middle
school readers, YA/teen Novels, children's classics, classics
and Shakespeare. These Read-A-longs highlight the sentences as
they are being read, turn the page automatically, and offer the
ability to follow along in three text sizes.
Proquest:
This database indexes professional education periodicals and is
geared toward teachers and parents. Users looking for access
should see Mrs. Perkowski in the library for a user id and
password.
Accelerated Reading Resources
Students can use the following link
to log onto Renaissance Place to take reading quizzes on books
they have read. Passwords are provided by classroom teachers.
Accelerated
Reader
Want to know if the book you are
reading is on the AR List?
Click
here to view the entire Accelerated Reading List
Please note: The Accelerated
Reading List opens in "PDF" format and requires the Adobe
Acrobat Reader in order to download and print. If you do not
have Adobe Acrobat on your computer, you can get a free copy
from the
Adobe web site.
To see the number of
books read so far this year district wide,
click here.
WEB
RESOURCES Students can use the following links
to log onto Renaissance Place to take reading quizzes on books
they have read. Passwords are provided by classroom teachers.
