You and your child can access Memorial School's Library Search from home! Using our Library Search students are able to search for books, access our ebooks, explore the online encyclopedia, access library skills games as well as other educational websites. Second, Third and Fourth grade students know how to access most of these resources. For detailed directions, please refer to the information below. If you have any questions please email me at [email protected]
Directions for Searching for Books:
- Select the "Library Search" button above
- Select "Memorial School"
- Enter your title, subject or authors name in the "Find" window and select the appropriate button below the window (Keyword will search on every option in the database whereas the title button will only search on the titles of books, the author button will only search for authors names etc.)
- If you would like to use "Destiny Discover' to search for books, you may select "Destiny Discover" from the menu in the upper left hand corner of the page. This searches and pulls information from the same database but the results and presentation looks different.
Directions for using the Encyclopedias in English and Spanish
- Once you are in our library search, select "Destiny Discover" from the left menu options.
- Then under "Learning Resources" which can be found on the upper right hand side, then select the icon with a "250" with Encyclopedia written underneath.
- For English select the Britannica School Elementary and for Spanish select Britannica Escolar (then select Primaria)
-Have fun exploring!
Directions for using the Library Skills Games, Online Books and Websites etc.
- Select the "Visual" tab from the basic librarysearch window. This tab can be found in the upper right hand side of your screen
- Select the "Library Activities" icon
- You may then select the appropriate icons/websites and have fun exploring!
Directions for Accessing the ebooks:
- Select "Destiny Discover" from the home page on Library Search (it's on the menu on the left)
- Scroll down to the "ebooks" and "Interactive ebooks"
-Select "See All" and browse the ebooks
-Once you have chosen a book, select the "OPEN" button
-You will be asked for a username and password (see below) - you will only have to enter this information once
- Username: Memorial
- Password: Mell
- Some of the books are interactive and have games, activities and quizzes at the end of the book.
- Have fun reading!