Cobb Online Resources

RESEARCH AT HOME
What's all the talk about?

All Cobb County Schools now have access to online research databases!  Your research library is now open around the clock, 7 days a week!

Have students been spending hours searching for information on the World Wide Web in order to complete their homework assignments?  Locating needed information should be much easier now that the Cobb County School District online resources are available to our students from their home computers.

Databases such as the GaleNet Discovering Collection (articles and biographies covering the core curriculum areas of history, language arts, science and social studies), Electric Library Classic (full text articles from over 800 magazines and newspapers), Grolier Online (Lands and Peoples in addition to the encyclopedia), World Book Online, and GALILEO (the Internet-based virtual library of the University System of Georgia) have been purchased for our students’ use both at school and at home. The County online resources can be accessed at mailto:http://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/~mediaservices/OnlineResources.

How to Obtain Passwords

Please encourage students to stop by the Media Center for a list of database passwords so they will be able to use these valuable information sources from home.  Students may also access the databases from computers in the Media Center before and after school, or during class visits or on teacher passes during the school day.  In accordance with School Board Policy IFBGA (http://www.cobbk12.org/~boardpolicies/I_Policies/ifbga_p.htm), all school computer use must be related to the student’s course work, and no “net surfing” or e-mail access is allowed without the prior permission and direct supervision of the student’s teacher.