Welcome to the
Ledyard Middle School Library
This LibGuide will provide you with information to help you be successful.
You will find links to assist with research and to your teacher's websites and materials.
If you need any assistance, please email me.
- Bonnie Vangieri Media Specialist lmslibrary@ledyard.net
Login with your Ledyard Gmail account for full and direct access to ebooks, audiobooks and databases.
You're probably used to using Google to look for information. However, to do research, your instructors will expect you to go beyond Google and use the library web. Why? What's the big deal?
Library web sources are carefully reviewed and selected by librarians based on their reliability, relevance to your studies, and value to academic research. Librarians organize library web sources to help you easily decide which databases and journals you need for your research. Use the Library Web:
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Information retrieved by Google does not go through a review process. Anyone can publish on the web. World Wide Web resources are not organized. There are too many pages for any search engine, like Google, to organize by subject matter. Use Google or another search engine:
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Adapted from UC Santa Cruz Nettrail, University of California, Santa Cruz NetTrail Development Team