DCSD Online Library Databases

World Book Online Reference Center   - The online edition of the famous encyclopedia.  Featuring an atlas, current events, multimedia and many other student and parent oriented resources. Ask your teacher for the user name and password.
eLibrary Elementary    - This young learner-tested design makes research a blast! Stocked with age-appropriate articles, videos, sounds, pictures, and much more.  Ask your teacher for the user name and password.
Electric Library - Look up a word or topic and retrieve results from an ever-growing collection of reference sources, including pictures, newspapers, magazines, books, dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, tv/radio transcripts and almanacs.  Results can be sorted by graphics, reading levels, date and reference type. Ask your teacher for the user name and password.
Teaching Books - TeachingBooks.net is an online collection of K-12 multimedia author and book resources. If you want to use this at home, ask your teacher for the password.

Country Reports -   Cultural, historical, and statistical information about Countries of the World.

Citing Sources

Citing Sources and Creating Bibliographies - Always cite your sources! These citation rules are taken from: Kemper, Dave , Ruth Nathan, and Patrick Sebranek. Writers Express. Burlington, WI:Write Source Educational Publishing House, 1994. 

easybib - Create MS Word-ready MLA-style bibliographies 

Citation Machine - Click MLA citation format on left and find the type of resource you wish to cite.