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MONROE LIBRARY LEARNING CENTER NEWS
From Mary Clare O'Grady, Library Learning Center Director
Mary Hohl, LLC aide

News from our Library Learning Center

Please click here to visit Monroe's Library site through CUSD 200!

 

Online Reference Sites Available

All Monroe Middle School students and families have some great new resources available to help with homework assignments. Our school district has made arrangements for the following websites to be accessible both at school and at home. Students have been given a brochure with all passwords that may be needed. The Culture Grams and Infotrac databases are made available through the Monroe PTA's generous funding of the LLC.

World Book Online
Go to www.worldbookonline.com
Encyclopedia articles and more; also includes a Spanish language encyclopedia

To search the Internet:
http://school.nettrekker.com
On your first visit to this site, register with an individual username and password.
Students should use the same as for computer lab access.

EBSCO Online Databases
Go to http://search.ebscohost.com
Databases include magazine and newspaper articles, NoveList and TOPICSearch.

Culture Grams
http://www.proquestk12.com/

INFOTRAC
Biography Resource Center:
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/jhmonroe?db=BioRC
Gale Virtual Reference Library
(e-books for Grade 8 Science and Health assignments)
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/jhmonroe?db=GVRL

www.atomiclearning.com
This site provides user-friendly training tutorials on many current software programs including:
Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, and Publisher. Tutorials in Spanish are available on this site.

http://www.dictionary.com

Students can use http://www.noodletools.com to help create citations for the bibliographies required for research assignments. Click on this link and choose NoodleBib MLA Starter from the Free Tools section. Set up an account and keep track of your sources. When you have completed your research, this site will even "type up" the bibliography for you! See Mrs. O'Grady or Mrs. Hohl in the LLC if you need help with this resource.

Grade 6 Renaissance Pathfinder

2009 Rebecca Caudill Master List

2008 Battle of the Books List

 

Other important links:
http://www.edline.net/Index.page

http://moodle.cusd200.org/login/index.php

 

Monroe Middle School Standard Paper Format

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