Welcome to the C.A. Jacobs Library!

The C.A. Jacobs Library is open every day, Monday through Friday, 8:15 - 3:00. Students are welcome in the library before school, during break, and during lunch to read, check out books, or do homework.

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Contact

Holly Szlosek

  • District Teacher Librarian
  • (707) 693-6350 x7200
  • Holly.Szlosek@DixonUSD.org
Distance Learning Information

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Online Catalog

Students who are on the C.A. Jacobs campus can search Alexandria, our online catalog.

→ Alexandria Online Catalog (http://10.0.1.74/7070477/)

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Online Resources

C.A. Jacobs students have access to many online research resources. All of these resources are available on any DUSD campus. To use these at home, please speak to the librarian.

 

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Middle Escolar

  • Britannica School is the go-to site for learning more about any subject, offering thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, and recommended Web sites.
  • Britannica Escolar is the leading knowledge-building resource that is universally trusted for accurate and age-appropriate content in Spanish.

ProQuest

CultureGramsSIRS Discover SIRS Issues Researcher ProQuest Central Student

ProQuest Research CompanionSchools and Educators Completeelibrary Guided Research Editionelibrary Database Edition

 

  • CultureGrams - Concise social, cultural, and political information on countries, U.S. states, and provinces around the world.
  • SIRS Discoverer - A general reference database providing safe, reliable, curriculum-aligned content and features for use by students and educators.
  • SIRS Issues Researcher - Pros and cons on 360+ (and growing) complex social issues with relevant, credible information that tells the whole story on the major questions of the day.
  • ProQuest Central Student - designed to bring instant results to users across thousands of journals, magazines, newspapers, videos, reports, and more. This resource brings together some of ProQuest's most used databases in education, humanities, psychology, science, social sciences, and news.
  • ProQuest Research Companion - a self-guided product that supports information literacy, writing, and research skills instruction.
  • Schools & Educators Complete - eBook subscription database of over 13,000 titles that supports English Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies, Health, Physical Education, Information Literacy and Technology.
  • eLibrary - Guided Research edition delivers one of the largest general reference collections of periodical and digital media content including more than 11,000 Research Topics
  • eLibrary - Database Edition General reference aggregation of periodical and digital media content with editorial guidance for novice researchers.

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