Media Center

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.

Information available in the Media Center!

Media Center Blog

Reading Raiders

Destiny Library Book Search Search for books at Dickerson. 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.

Magazines for student check out

Sites available for research from the Dickerson Media Center

Cobb Virtual Library -requires password for home use

eLibrary
Culture Grams
Grolier Online
Galenet Discovering/Jr. Ref. Collection
World Book Online
GALELEO

	Other Subscription Databases Gale Science Resource Center -New requires a password for home use
	Research sites Landmarks Citation Machine for help citing information in MLA and ALA formats Science Sites

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
Junior 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

Summer Reading

Maps101