Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.
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     Welcome to the West Middle School Media Center Web Page! Our Media Center is home to over 7,500 books, and 25 current magazine subscriptions. We work hard to make sure our students are given reading materials that are up to date while giving them the best that Young Adult Literature has to offer. Our fiction section is always being updated with the newest and hottest reading materials. We have 18 computers with Internet access for researching and the computers are available for word processing school papers. All of our computers are equipped with the Microsoft Office Suite and all students are able to use these programs to complete technology driven projects.

West Online Library Catalog

Coming Soon!

Library of Michigan MEL eContent Collection

eBooks!

Online Encyclopedias

Home and School LInk

(user name & password needed @ home)

School Link

HOME LINK--->Grolier Online Encyclopedia(user name & password needed @ home)*

Reference Information

How to Cite sources MLA style

Newspapers and Magazines

Full text. Over 330 titles, cross searchable with E-Books, this database is designed for students in junior high and middle school with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

A collection of approximately 900 full text newspapers from around the country and the world.

Online Data Bases

Michigan's 24/7 online Library

All full text. A children's database of articles, books, video, audio on all topics. The interface is appropriate to children and includes reading levels, teacher's help pages, over 3,000 maps, and more. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.

Recommended for: K-12. All full text. Video, audio, books, pictures, magazines, maps, newspapers, & transcripts of TV and radio shows. Michigan residents or Michigan library access only.

Learn while having FUN!

BrainPop

What is BrainPOP?

BrainPOP features Science, Math, English, Health and Technology subjects that correspond to National Science, English and Math Standards for grades 3-8. Topics contain a 2-4 minute Animated Movie, an Interactive Quiz, an Experiment, a Comic Strip, a How-to hands on application, a Timeline and a printable Activity Page.

(User name & password needed @ home) *

eBooks

More Coming Soon!

8th Grade Science eBook *

(user name and password needed @ home)

7th Grade Science

Simple Machines Webquest

(*Stop in Library for User Name and Password to use at home)

Last Updated 04/01/09