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Media Center
DeKalb Middle School Media Center
Welcome!
Our Media Center is an integral part of the education process. It is our mission to provide our students and staff with a 21st-century learning environment while we promote effective, ethical use of ideas and information, and foster a love of reading.
Library Hours are 7:50 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Zoterobib - This site is a citation generator tool that can also allow users to create a personal database of bibliographic references and automatically format a bibliography with citations in MLA.
Purdue OWL - The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects.
Citation Machine - This site is a work cited generator that accesses information from across the web, drawing the relevant information into a fully-formatted bibliography that clearly presents all of the sources that have contributed to your work.
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Ancestry (You need to be at DMS to use this site.) This site can be used for Genealogy Research.
Ben’s Guide to Government - This site is packed full of resources to learn more about our country. Choose the JOURNEYPERSON tab for age-appropriate information and games. This site also includes links to more resources.
Fold3 (You need to be at DMS to use this site.) Search Historical Military Records!
Britannica School -DeKalb's go-to fact-checked encyclopedia for research. Explore thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and more.
Inspire (K-12) - This site includes full-text magazine and journal articles, websites, pamphlets, images, almanacs, full-text historic newspapers, multimedia, library catalogs, and more. Users can narrow results by Lexile, search databases by subject, then choose & search through the Student Research Center.
NBC Learn - Access thousands of high-quality archival, original, and current events videos through the Indiana Department of Education. This site is for use in classroom instruction, student projects, and homework.
Newspaper.com (Access to Newspapers) (You need to be at DMS to use this site.) This site has over 3,400 US Newspapers from 1700 to 2000. More added daily.
Opposing Viewpoints - This site is a good resource for assisting in argumentative writing. It provides full-text access to all viewpoints of current hot topics and social issues. It is easy to use basic and advanced search, spotlighted articles, browse by category, find videos, facts, statistics, and more. The information is from news, magazines, academic journals, primary sources, and websites.
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