Virtual+IMC+Tour

Welcome to today's workshop. During our session, you'll have an opportunity to explore just a few of the many resources available to members of the Collins Middle School learning community, including: [|Destiny]**, our District-Wide Onli****ne Catalog** **Destiny** is available both at [|school] and at home from the [|Library Catalogs] page. Be sure to check out the many **e-book collections** also available from this page.

[|Full-Text Resources] **Available to the CMS Learning Community** These include excellent magazine and journal collections, encyclopedias, primary documents and other research databases, for which the IMC has paid a fee for on-site and remote use. These databases include:
 * = [[image:GVRL.gif width="147" height="63" link="http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mlin_n_collinsms?db=GVRL"]] ||= [[image:Middle_Search_Plus.png link="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=uid"]] ||= [[image:NoveList_Plus.png link="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=uid"]] ||||= [[image:ELL.png link="http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=uid"]] ||

Many excellent full-text magazine and journal collections, newspapers, encyclopedias, primary documents collections, and other research databases are available to the Salem Public Schools research community. Access to these collections is one of the benefits of school library memberships in the Northeastern Massachusetts Regional Library System (NMRLS) and the North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE). **To log in to any database you wish to search, just enter your public library barcode from any NOBLE public library.** Below are brief descriptions of several of these resources: //**Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia**// (designed for students in middle school and up, and includes 36,000 entries); and //**New Book of Knowledge**// (intended for students in grade 3 and up, as well as for new English language learners, and includes 9,000 articles) || **Wikis for grades 6, 7, 8 and specialist subject areas** feature annotated resource lists for particular assignments, as well as links to other information of interest. As you plan research assignments, relevant content, including audio and video resources, can be made available in the appropriate wiki to support your students as they carry out their work.
 * [[image:elibrary.png align="center" link="http://mblc.state.ma.us/cgi-bin/remote.pl?db=el"]] || **elibrary** features information gathered from consumer-oriented books, magazines and newspapers. Also included are photos, maps, and TV and radio transcripts. ||
 * [[image:Grolier_Online.png align="center" link="http://mblc.state.ma.us/cgi-bin/remote.pl?db=grolier"]] || **Grolier Online** features two terrific resources:
 * [[image:informe.png align="center" link="http://mblc.state.ma.us/cgi-bin/remote.pl?db=infotrac"]] || **¡informé!** offers users full text and images from popular Hispanic magazines, as well as full-text pamphlets about health care and many other topics. ||
 * [[image:ProQuest.png align="center" link="http://mblc.state.ma.us/books/magazine/newspapers.php"]] || **Massachusetts Newsstand** features the full text of twelve Massachusetts newspapers, including the //**Boston Globe**// (1980-present) and the //**Boston Herald**// (1991-present). ||
 * [[image:Gale_Biography_in_Context.png align="center" link="http://mblc.state.ma.us/cgi-bin/remote.pl?db=infotrac"]] || **Gale Biography in Context** includes biographical information about people from throughout history, around the world, and all disciplines and subject areas. ||
 * [[image:Kids_InfoBits.png align="center" link="http://mblc.state.ma.us/cgi-bin/remote.pl?db=infotrac"]] || **Kids InfoBits** is designed for beginning researchers - students in kindergarten through grade 5 - and features a user-friendly and developmentally appropriate visually graphic search interface. The collection includes curriculum-related and age appropriate full-text content from elementary reference sources and magazines, about the arts, current events, geography, government, health, history, people, science, sports, and more. ||
 * [[image:Educator's_Reference_Complete.png align="center" link="http://mblc.state.ma.us/cgi-bin/remote.pl?db=infotrac"]] || **Educator's Reference Complete** features the full text of more than 450 academic journals, hundreds of full-text reports, and reference information sources for teachers and school administrators. **This is a great resource for teachers who are enrolled in graduate education programs, or simply looking for information about the teaching profession.** ||
 * Grade 6, 7 & 8 Wikis **
 * [[image:Grade_6_Wiki.jpg width="160" height="100" caption="Grade 6 Wiki" link="jumpstartresearch6:home"]] || [[image:Grade_7_Wiki.jpg width="119" height="104" caption="Grade 7 Wiki" link="jumpstartresearch7:home"]] || [[image:Grade_8_Wiki.jpg width="134" height="181" caption="Grade 8 Wiki" link="jumpstartresearch8:home"]] || [[image:Reading_Wiki.jpg width="240" height="158" caption="Reading Wiki" link="readreturnrepeat:home"]] ||