Media Center
Media Specialist: Mrs. Melissa Rhoads | Media Assistant: Mrs. Cathy Farrell
Hours: 9:00 am - 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday
Policies and Procedures | Research Projects | Student Resources
Mission
Lifelong, independent learning is based on a foundation of information literacy skills.
Read about essential questions and outcomes.
Catalog: Destiny Access at Home
Ebooks - Capstone Library - See Mrs. Rhoads for username and password
Research Projects
Online Resources
Log ins and passwords are sent home with students. For additional copies of the log ins and passwords, please contact the Media Specialist, Mrs. Rhoads.
Math Subscription
- IXL Math Math teachers will send home student log ins and passwords.
School Use Only Subscription
- One More Story School Use Only
Online Encyclopedias and Dictionaries:
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- World Book Encyclopedia
- Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol
- Webster's New International Dictionary
Magazine and Newspaper Indexes
- SIRS Discoverer
- EBSCO's Kids Search
- EBSCO's Searchasaurus
- Scholastic News
- Time For Kids
- Kids Post (Washington Post)
Other Resources
- Annals of American History
- CultureGrams
- Image Quest: over three million rights-cleared images
- NoodleTools (Cite Your Source!)
- PebbleGo
- TeachingBooks.net
- Trueflix: Information e-books with related activities
- TumbleBooks
- World Data Annals
- Montgomery County Public Libraries
Search Engines
- SlimeKids: Search Engines for Kids
- Google.com
- EBSCO's Kids Search (password required)
- EBSCO's Searchasaurus (password required)
Parent Volunteers
- Shelving library books
- Repairing library books
- Assisting with processing books: covering, stamping, etc.
- Assisting with checkout of library books
- Assisting with research activities in the media center.
If you are interested, please contact the Media Staff.
Book Club
The Wayside Book Club is a great way to celebrate your child's birthday, thank a teacher or staff member, leave a wonderful legacy for your graduating child and support the Wayside Media Center. All donated books will receive a bookplate with the donor's information on it. Donors will be the first to check out the new book, and will choose a special bookmark to keep!
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