Cheney Middle School
Library
Online Book Catalog
Online Databases
- InfoTrac Student Edition (Includes a multi-source full-text database designed for junior high and middle-school students.)
- eLibrary Curriculum (Offers a broad range of full-text and multimedia content that supports student inquiry with more than 600 full-text magazines, newspapers, books, and transcripts, plus thousands of maps and pictures. Includes specialized database links to History & Literature)
- Health & Wellness Resource Center (Includes magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on a variety of health-related topics. Includes links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases.)
- Opposing Viewpoints (Provides full-text, multi-source research on today's hottest social issues including both pro and con viewpoint articles, statistics, government data, images and podcasts, and links to hand-selected web sites.)
- Junior Reference Collection
- Contemporary Authors (Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.)
- Discovering Collection (Covers literature, history, biography, science, and social studies. Contains 81,000 reference resources.)
Online References
- Britannica School Edition (Provides teachers and students instant access to four complete encyclopedias that ensure consistency with classroom topics and age-appropriate language.)
- Groliers Online Encyclopedia |In District| |Outside District| (Provides a general reference source for students which includes "Today is…", a featured showcase, NewsNow from the Associated Press, and resources for Educators.)
- World Book (Includes World Book Online, World Book Kids, Spanish-Language Encyclopedia and World Book Advanced.)
- CultureGrams (Provides cultural reference and curriculum materials to foster understanding and appreciation of the world's countries and peoples.)
- World Almanac (Offers a fundamental reference source for students and teachers.)
Online Reference Books
- Salem Press
- Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions
- The Thirties in America
Online Tools
- United Streaming
- Learning Express (Offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, and information you need to achieve the results you want-at school, at work, or in life.)

- Auto Repair Reference Center (Contains information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for most vintage makes starting as far back as 1945. Database content includes more than 33,100 vehicles covered from 1945 to present)
Images on the Web
Other Libraries
Professional Resources
- Academic Search Premier (Ideal for college students. Spans virtually every area of scholarly study. More than 8,000 journals - 4,600 are full-text.)
- Professional Collection (Wide variety of topics for educators, administrators, and librarians. More than 300 full-text online journals.)
- Google Scholar
- ERIC
- Ancestry Library (Covers the U.S. and the U.K. and includes census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. This collection contains more than 4,000 databases and 1.5 billion names. This resource is only available from within a North Dakota library.)
- Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.)
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