Welcome to Allen Middle School's Media and Technology Center!

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Your media center: the place where books, magazines, and technology come together to enrich and educate our school community!


The media center is open to students for individual checkout and maintains a modified block schedule for classes.  Students can choose from 11,000 titles,  read magazines or a newspaper, research using our reference collection, or the Internet.  Over 3,000 Accelerated Reader titles are included in the collection.

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Frederick Douglass
"Once you learn to read you will be forever free."

  ~~Frederick Douglass



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2013-2014 Battle of the Books list

Click above to see the latest Battle list!!!


Click this logo to visit NC WISE OWL, a website that has, as its centerpiece, several subscription databases. InfoTrac, a periodical database product by the Gale Group, is made up of a Kids Edition for elementary students, a Junior Edition for middle schoolers, and both the Student Edition and InfoTrac Gold Reference Edition for the high school and parent community. The Junior Reference Center and Kids InfoBits offer access to reference materials with a simplified format for greater ease of use. Also included in the Gale database collection is the Scribner Writers Series, with information on more than 1600 authors. Grolier Online offers two encyclopedias: The New Book of Knowledge for elementary and middle school students, and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia for middle and high school students. Additional reference sources available include Lands & Peoples, Popular Science, America the Beautiful, and a collection of searchable eBooks in the Virtual Reference Center.


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Media Specialist - Mrs. Cathy May