These online resources are provided by HCPSS for student and family use. There are 2 ways to access these databases from home. You may contact Mrs. Lauren at robin_lauren@hcpss.org for the passwords for each database or login to MackinVia, which automatically logs the user into all the databases.
MackinVIA is a complete eResource management system providing easy access to eBooks, audiobooks and educational databases. With just one login, users can view, utilize, and manage all of their eResources. To login from home, please follow these steps.
Click on the MackinVia link above which will take you to the login page:
Make sure Veterans Elementary is in the school field.
User IDs and Passwords are the same user IDs and passwords that students use at school when logging into computers. If you have any questions about your child's logins, please contact Mrs. Lauren or Mrs. Kinloch in the Media Center, or your child's technology teacher.
Click on the MackinVia link above which will take you to the login page:
Make sure Veterans Elementary is in the school field.
User IDs and Passwords are the same user IDs and passwords that students use at school when logging into computers. If you have any questions about your child's logins, please contact Mrs. Lauren or Mrs. Kinloch in the Media Center, or your child's technology teacher.
Public Access Catalog (PAC)
Use the PAC to see what books are available in our Media Center.
PebbleGo PebbleGo is a database that features leveled text and navigation specifically designed for beginning researchers in Kindergarten through grade 2. Animal, earth science, social studies and biography databases are available.
CultureGrams offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on over 200 cultures of the world. It goes beyond the mere facts and figures to deliver an insider’s perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyle of the world’s people.
Sirs Discoverer offers a database of easily retrievable full-text articles, often with accompanying graphics, with full printing and saving capabilities. The full-text articles database consists of articles reprinted with permission, from approximately 1,600 newspapers, magazines and U.S. government documents.
Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works cited list or APA References list. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for importing into Microsoft Word.
TeachingBooks is a timesaving portal to thousands of online resources of book-related resources you can use to explore children’s and young adult books and their authors. It provides immediate access to useful materials and exciting programs (short movies, audio book readings, book discussion guides, and more) that add a multimedia dimension to reading in the classroom, library media center and home.
Trueflix is an outline Whiteboard resource focusing on engaging science and social studies content for students spanning grades 3-5.
Use your Howard County Library card and pin number to access many online reference sources.
