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Welcome to the
Dickerson Media Center
Kathren Inman: Media Specialist
Amy Baines

Hours: Monday-Friday 8:05a-4:45p

The Mission of the Dickerson Middle School Media Center is to promote information literacy by providing access to
information in a variety of resources in a learning environment that will foster effective and responsible users of
information for academic success. Our Mission includes promoting reading by selecting a wide variety of reading topics
at many different reading levels. We want students to have successful and rewarding reading experiences.

Helpful Reference Links

Accelerated Reader Lists GA Book Awards

ALA & ALSA Book Awards Young Adult Services

Summer Reading Fantastic Fiction - series info.

Landmarks Citation Machine Cobb County Public Library

Lexile Reading Info Pics4Learning

Follett Shelf - eBooks

Media Center Blog

Reading Raiders

Destiny Library Catalog Search for books in the Dickerson Collection as well as educational web sites. Books in the Media Center are organized using the Dewey Decimal System. Non-fiction books are arranged by subject. Fiction are arranged by the first 3 letters of the authors last name. For more information on the Dewey Decimal Classification system click here.

We Also have magazines for student and teacher check-out

Cobb Virtual Library -requires password for home use

World Book Online
Grolier Online
Gale Student Resource Center
Culture Grams
Gale Science in Context
World Book Inventions & Discoveries
World Book Living Green
Sondzabounds - music and sound files
GALILEO includes
     EBSCO Student Resouce Center
     EBSCO Image Search
     Novel List - book reviews and more
New Georgia Encylcopedia
Digital Library of GA
Kids.gov
NetTrekker - searches educational websites

Research sites
Landmarks Citation Machine for help citing
information in MLA and ALA formats
Plagiarism - University of Indiana

Gale Virtual Ref.Library e-books
-Scholarly reference articles in science, history, popular culture, and other areas
e-booksinclude:
American Civil War Ref. Library
American Revolution Ref. Library
Colonial America Ref. Library
Grzimek's Student Animal Life Resource
Jr. Worldmark Ency. of Physical Geography
Jr. Worldmark Ency. of Canadian Provinces
Renaissance & Reformation Ref. Library
Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students
U*X*L American Decades
U*X*L Encyclopedia of Water Science
U.S. Immigration and Migration Ref. Library
World War II Ref. Library
Requires password for home use