Services
The WKMS Middle School Learning Commons serves the students, faculty, staff, and school community. We provide research skills, collaboration opportunities with teachers and students, reading resources and a student book club.
Books Delivered Curbside For LOOLA Students
Please see the links and documents below that explain the upcoming book checkout procedure for LOOLA students. Some of these documents also contain relevant video instructions.
1. Curbside LOOLA Book Pickup at White Knoll Middle School Document.
2. LOOLA: Google Doc Form to Reserve/Request a Book
Video Tutorial
3. Digital Reading Hub
4. Finding and Requesting e-Books and/or traditional Books.
Learn More About Exploring and Selecting Good Books
Step 1: Search your home school’s library collection.
How to Find and Logon to Destiny Discover, Our Online Catalog:
Book Availability Review Tutorial for Follet Destiny.
Step 2: Place a book(s) on hold
How to Reserve a Book Through Your Google Request Doc
*If you’re not sure what you what to read next, please investigate NoveList K-8 Plus at SCDISCUS.org
Step 3: When available, your book will be delivered directly to your ELA classroom. We will do our best to get the book to you as quickly as possible!
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WKMS Online Reading Resources
- Junior Library Guild eBooks
- Tumblebooks: available through scdiscus.org
- Epic! (free, but sign up required)
- ComicsPlus (Sign in through MacinVia from Your Launchpad.)
- eBooks Through MackinVIA (login through your launchpad)
- Teen BookCloud will be available until December 15, 2020.
DISCUS Resources For Middle Schoolers
- Bloom’s Literature
- Britannica Middle School
- Career Transitions
- Credo Reference
- CultureGrams
- DK Eyewitness eBooks
- Escolar (Spanish)
- Explora for Middle Schools
- Gale In Context: Biography
- Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints
- Gale Presents: Peterson’s Career Prep
- Health Source - Consumer Edition
- Historic American Newspapers
- History Reference Center
- History Reference eBook Collection
- Learn360
- LearningExpress Library
- Literary Reference Center
- Magic School Bus
- Middle Search Reference eBook Collection
- Middle Search Plus
- Newspaper Source Plus
- NoveList K-8 Plus
- Points of View Reference Center
- Science Reference Center
- Science Reference eBook Collection
- StudySC
- TumbleBooks
- TumbleMath
- Tutor.com
- World Almanac for Kids Intermediate
- Writer's Reference Center
- 20th Century Historical Videos