Library Media Center

About Duncanville Middle School Library

Our library serves students in grades 6-8 with a wide range of book genres and levels. It offers lessons on digital literacy as well as lessons based on 6-8 grade English standards. Our students can chose from over 9,000 books, that include both audio and print.

TCSS Libraries Mission Statement

The mission of the TCSS libraries as an agency of both instruction and service is to encourage reading for both pleasure and information, to support the curricular goals of our campuses, to teach appropriate research skills in an integrated context, and to aid each other. It is the goal of all TCSS Library Media Centers to provide the best quality resources, instructional learning opportunities, collaboration and instructional support for our learning communities enabling and equipping all students as they learn, grow, and achieve.

All TCSS Library Media Centers support the Alabama State Course of Study, the basis of our school curriculum program and its publication "Alabama Library Media Handbook for the 21st Century Learner" as well as "Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs," published by the American Association of School Librarians and the American Library Association. In addition, the Library Media Center endorses the literacy principles of the AASL’s National School Library Standards.

TCSS Library Media Centers provide open access for all students. Our system’s Library Media
Centers use Destiny, a Follett software product as its automated management system.

Destiny provides TitlePeek®, which gives students a chance to preview books on-line; and One Search®, which lets students get information from the school library and the Internet as a whole with a single search, and WebPath Express®, which limits student, searches to approved, grade-appropriate web sites. Destiny access is available to teachers and students at school and at home via Internet access.