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Welcome to the Holmes Media Center

Holmes Online Catalog: Search the Holmes Library!

Copyright Rules & Questions

If you do any research and use any information you found on the Internet, you must tell where you found the information.

Click here to learn how to cite internet and other research in your reports and projects.

  Copyright Rules & Questions For Teachers
 

Online Databases Available for Research

   

EBSCO Middle Search Plus

Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.

Middle Search Plus also contains 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

 

Grolier Online:

Featuring online encyclopedias and reference resources. It includes an online Spanish English Encyclopedia.

eLibrary:

Formerly called bigchalk, this database indexes over 2,000 sources including TV and radio transcripts.

 

SIRS Knowledge Source:

This database is for locating articles on the U.S. government, Arts and Humanities as well as many other general topics.

Gale Databases:

Eleven databases for users of all ages with information on just about anything you want to know.

 

SIRS Discoverer:

This database is for finding articles on current events.

     
World Book    

 

   

Helpful Websites

GoogleGoogle

  Ask JeevesAsk Jeeves

Yahooligans

Yahooligans.com

 
 
     

Online Magazines


Time for Kids

 

 


CNN Student News
     
     

HMS Booktalks

Visit MCBytes, the HMS Media Center Online, to hear podcasts about new books available for checkout in the library.

Checkout the HMS Library 24/7 in Blackboard for teacher and student podcasts, videos, blogs, student news, and the Sports Show.

If you want to contribute to the HMS Library 24/7, contact Mrs. Carmenates or Mr. Ledesma.

Last Update: May 18, 2007
Curator: Patrick Ledesma (Contact)
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