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Home | Contact Us | Site Index    Search our site:   Schools Instruction/ Curriculum Students Parents/ Community Teachers Board of Education Community/ Business Partnerships Human Resources/ Employment  Library Media Services Home:   • Informational Brochures Library Media Services Staff Public Access Catalog Departments: • Library Acquisitions • Library Media Resource • Library Review and Evaluation • Library Systems Management • Production Center • Professional and Video Library   (AV Warehouse) Curriculum Online Databases Ethical Use of Information Homework Help Resources for Library Media Specialists    AACPS Home>>Instruction>>Library Media Services   Library Media Services Online Databases The school library media program provides resources and services to assist students and teachers in becoming critical thinkers in the pursuit and use of ideas and information.  Contact your school Library Media Specialist for the required user ID and password for each database. ABC-CLIO  - A series of seven databases that include news, feature stories, and daily activities that can be searched by text, reference categories, period, or region for middle and high school. EBSCOHOST  - Includes newspaper, magazine and journal articles in elementary, middle, and high school editions, and both general and animal encyclopedias.  The Professional Development Collection provides full text educational journal articles.  ERIC contains digests, citations and abstracts from educational journals. GROLIER  - Provides encyclopedias leveled for elementary, middle and high school students. It includes an atlas, dictionary, thesaurus and section on the United States and countries from around the world. NEWSBANK - Provides coverage of curriculum topics from multiple perspectives and diverse sources including articles from newspaper, wire sevices, periodicals, and primary sources. PROQUEST CULTUREGRAMSs - Includes maps, statistics, a glossary, flags, images, a photo gallery, a recipe collection which features native recipes, and biographies of notable individuals. PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS  - Offers full text and images from the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and the Christian Science Monitor dating back to the 19th century. PROQUEST SIRS - Includes databases for elementary, middle, and high school students covering general topics, current evernts, government documents, arts and humanities.  SIRS Decades features more than 5,000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, etc. in 20th century America. THOMPSON GALE RESOURCE CENTER (High School) - The Thompson Gale History, Literature, and Science products include full text periodical articles, full text content from Thompson Gale reference resources, multi-media clips, and authoritative web sites. THOMPSON GALE RESOURCE CENTER (Middle School))- The Thompson Gale History and Science products include full text periodical articles, full text content from Thompson Gale reference resources, multi-media clips, and authoritative web sites. WORLD BOOK - Features an English and Spanish encyclopedia, atlas, dictionary, and sections on current events, historical events, student homework assistance, and teacher resources. PUBLIC ACCESS CATALOG  - The integrated library system provides the school district with a Web-based catalog that will enable students and staff to access the collections from school or home.  Online databases such as World Book, Grolier, etc. are available through the catalog.  Databases that are unique to a school are available through that school's catalog page. Online Databases - Brochure(PDF) Elementary Online Databases - Brochure(PDF)