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Walton Library / Media Center

Our Mission: To assist in improving every student's functional literacy. In addition to supporting the standards for research, technology, literature and reading in the academic subject areas, the media center provides materials and services to instill a love of books and reading and to promote independent life-long learning.

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Research & Databases
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Research & Databases

Curriculum-aligned research support with 600,000+ biographical entries — on more than 528,000 individuals — spanning history and geography. Media-rich content updated daily.

BrainPOP Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids.

SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database covering areas such as reading, language arts, current events, science, social studies, history, health, and technology, with materials from over 2,100 sources.

A collection of databases that provide free 24/7 access to resources such as newspapers, magazine and journal articles, and books such as encyclopedias. Materials are available for all age ranges and interests.

FactCite features content from the Lincoln Library product line, plus additional content on American history and world biography. A standard in schools across the country, FactCite has been recognized as a "Best Overall Reference K-12"

A dynamic, authoritative, and publicly accessible reference work about Virginia history and culture; a publication-in-progress of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.

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An award-winning source of unbiased, reliable, easy-to-understand answers and explanations of how the world actually works.

Selected online databases you can trust for accuracy and appropriateness for children, providing access to full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and a wide range of standard library reference sources. Most can be accessed from home 24/7, using yo

Merriam-Webster Unabridged is the largest, most comprehensive American dictionary currently available in print or online.

Find images, video, eBooks, and 100% full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals; maps, transcripts, audio files, graphics, interactives, dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, timelines, slideshows, & more.

Enter Middle School Search Level-Appropriate Reference Articles, Journals and Magazines, the Web's Best Sites, Multimedia, and Curriculum Content

CNN Student News is designed for use in middle and high school classrooms.

Books & Reading

Jefferson-Madison Regional Library

Helpful book-finding lists from Mid-Continent Public Library

Featured titles plus many more eBooks in Arts, Biography, Environment, History, Science and other subjects.

All of our Overdrive ebooks and audiobooks are stored within the Albemarle High School Digital Library. You can access these digital materials by using your K12 Google credentials.

We offer over 200 free resources including writing , research, grammar, style guides, and ESL (English as a Second Language).

Thoughtful book reviews, compelling features, in-depth author profiles and interviews, excerpts of the hottest new releases, contests and more every week

Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our huge database of real readers' favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next.

Librarian: Michelle Proffitt
mproffitt@k12albemarle.org

Please email Ms. Proffitt with questions or for help with assignments.

Hours: M-F 9:00-4:00

Checkout Policy: Students may check out 2 or 3 books for a month.

Checkout Process:

Students may check out 3 books at a time. Use the Destiny catalog to the left to search for books or to place books on hold. Students may also put books on hold and Ms. Proffitt will deliver them to your class. Overdue notices will be emailed to students every 2 weeks. Please see Ms. Proffitt if there are any questions about the books.

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