Library Resources

New to DMS .... Sora!  You can check out available eBooks through this site (click the icon above) by using your school login information (ID number and password). You can also click on the 3 lines in the upper right-hand corner and it opens up an area for you to click on "Add a public library."  Select Riverside County Library System or any other library you use (you must have a library card to check out the material). Click on the library name, search, and check out the eBooks from this easy site. There are even audiobooks available! NEW!!!   Sora/Overdrive is now connected to the Riverside CO Public Library collection and you can borrow books using your Google credentials.  The Sora app is limited to k-12 (young adult) content. Check out some of the titles in the slideshow below!

Take a virtual field trip to these amazing museums, parks, zoos, and aquariums by visiting the Destiny Collection link below!

• Virtual Tours

Students may check out a District Chromebook for use during the school year upon receipt of a Technology Use and Liability Agreement signed by both the student and parent.  This can also be done via Etrieve.   

Always bring your ID cards with you to check out a book. No ID card, no books.

• You must have no overdue books or fines
• You may check out 2 books at one time
• The check out period is two weeks
• The book may be renewed if there are no holds for that title
• If you lose or damage the book, a fine is applied
• If you check out a book and you notice that there is something wrong with it, bring it back to the library immediately and we will fix the book

 

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Research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, e-books and more

EBSCO Host: Main menu page (Off-site login credentials differ per site.)

Database bundle includes :

• Middle School Research Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full-text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps, and flags
• Topic Overviews TOPICsearch contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
• Newspaper Source provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers as well as full-text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
• History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover-to-cover, full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
• Health Source Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

• Now available starting this January, students, parents, and teachers anywhere in the state, with or without a library card or password, will have unlimited and ongoing access – by phone, laptop, or tablet -- to Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids, interactive tools to explain science concepts, and a wide variety of reading source materials and multi-media for environmental studies and science.   

• Gale Presents: National Geographic Kids: Allows students to adventure in science, nature, culture, archeology, and space.  

• Gale In Context: Environmental Studies: Broadens student understanding of environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content. 

• Gale Interactive: Science: Allows students to manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand biology, chemistry, earth, and space science concepts. 

 

Product Links provided by California State Library

• Videos on Demand -  Classroom Video on Demand (CVOD) + Career Tech Education Collection  
• Available at all high schools, BVMS and DMS.

• Video on Demand Link: Off-site credentials vary by site.
• Master Collection 23,000+ videos/ 215,000 clips / Career Tech 1,200+ full-length videos + 11,400 + clips.
• New content added daily. Create custom segments, embed, and share.  Google Classroom, Blackboard, and Clever supported. Citations are available in MLA format. ISTE Best of Show Award.