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Pre-K & Elementary School:
BookFLIX POWER Library
Watch videos and read books about Animals and Nature, Earth and Sky, People and Places, ABC’s and 1, 2, 3’s, Family and Community, Music and Rhyme, Adventure, and more. Enjoy read aloud with words highlighting and interactive games. Some films and books are available in Spanish too!
Britannica School Prek-5th POWER Library
Watch videos and read books about Animals and Nature, Earth and Sky, People and Places, ABC’s and 1, 2, 3’s, Family and Community, Music and Rhyme, Adventure, and more. Enjoy read aloud with words highlighting and interactive games. Some films and books are available in Spanish too!
Elementary POWER Library
Elementary students in kindergarten through grade five will find age-appropriate content covering a broad range of educational topics such as animals, arts, geography, health, literature, people, social studies, technology, etc. Elementary includes full-text proprietary content from Blackbirch Press®, U-X-L, KidHaven Press™, and more! Content is continuously updated and provides interesting and important facts with connections to current and past events.
NoveList Plus K-8
Calling all kids and parents! NoveList K-8 Plus is a subset of the database used in NoveList Plus and is a resource all about books specifically for younger readers. It helps readers find books that are just right for specific reading levels and interests while providing suggestions for picture books, chapter books, children's, and younger teen books in both fiction and nonfiction.
Power Library eResources POWER Library
Power Library is Pennsylvania’s online portal of information to find trustworthy answers to questions about healthcare, consumer purchases, personal finances, and much more. Enjoy 24/7 access to newspapers, magazines, journals, historical documents and photos, online databases, and eBooks. Research a subject. learn about your family history, locate a title or explore career options - it’s all here at Power Library. Most of the site is open for browsing, but, to use the online e-resources, you must have a library card issued by a library in Pennsylvania or you can obtain an eCard through the site.
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POWER Kids eResources POWER Library
POWER Kids provides online resources including videos and books, collections of photographs and documents, and nonfiction articles across various subjects. Start exploring today!
Middle School:
Cricket Media Collection POWER Library
This collection includes hundreds of eBooks from renowned family publisher Cricket Media. It can help build strong literacy skills in students from grades pre-K to 8 by offering digital access to award-winning, short-form fiction and nonfiction titles. This unique eBook collection explores a wide range of subjects to help young readers explore and expand their worlds.
Middle School POWER Library
Discover reliable and trusted information on a variety of topics to support middle school student research for government, U.S and world history, geography, literature, sciences, and social issues. Middle School offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state standards, and presents material organized into a highly visual and topic portal approach to quickly find answers.
POWER Kids eResources POWER Library
POWER Kids provides online resources including videos and books, collections of photographs and documents, and nonfiction articles across various subjects. Start exploring today!
POWER Teens eResources POWER Library
POWER Teens provides online resources including full-text research e-resources, collections of photographs and documents, the statewide catalog of materials held in libraries throughout Pennsylvania, and Chat with a Librarian.
Science Reference Center POWER Library
Perform research from hundreds of full text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other reliable sources. View more than 280,000 high-quality science images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library.
High School:
High School POWER Library
Secondary school students will have access to age-appropriate content from magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, and engaging multi-media covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.
POWER Kids eResources POWER Library
POWER Kids provides online resources including videos and books, collections of photographs and documents, and nonfiction articles across various subjects. Start exploring today!
POWER Teens eResources POWER Library
POWER Teens provides online resources including full-text research e-resources, collections of photographs and documents, the statewide catalog of materials held in libraries throughout Pennsylvania, and Chat with a Librarian.
Pronunciator
Want to learn a new language? Try Pronunciator, a language-learning service featuring 163 languages with personalized courses, movies, music, and more! Learn how to speak a new language with the help of a variety of interactive techniques to meet the needs of both beginners and advanced learners. It also includes interactive ESL for 144 non-English home languages, citizenship preparation, and COVID-19 language courses. Apps for Android and Apple devices are also available.
Transparent Language Online - KidSpeak English POWER Library
KidSpeak languages help kids learn phrases suitable for learners’ age, needs, and interests. More than 40 activities, puzzles, and songs guide young learners through the basics, along with a cartoon “friend” who speaks the language. Important Note - The landing page for the KidSpeak languages will present a login screen to users. This is correct. In order to track progress it is necessary for users to have an account. Users who do not want to track progress may select the 'Continue as a guest' option located beneath the login to proceed.
History:
Introduction to U.S. History: Slavery in America POWER Library
This collection includes over 600 documents with over 75,000 pages covering key aspects of the history of slavery in America from its origins in Africa to its abolition, including materials on the slave trade, plantation life, emancipation, pro-slavery and anti-slavery arguments, the religious views on slavery, etc. Date range: 1760-1910.
Introduction to U.S. History: The American Revolution POWER Library
Consisting of 450 titles totaling 94,000 pages of text, Introduction to U.S. History: The American Revolution documents the revolution and war that created the United States of America, from the earliest protests in 1765 through the peace treaty of 1783. The collection examines the political, social, and intellectual upheaval of the age, as well as the actual war for American independence through its eight long years of conflict. Date range: 1700-1910.
Introduction to U.S. History: The Civil War POWER Library
Consisting of nearly 500 titles totaling about 90,000 pages of text, Introduction to U.S. History: The Civil War documents the war that transformed America, ending slavery, and unifying the nation around the principles of freedom. This collection examines the war in all its complexity; its battles and campaigns, its political and religious aspects, the experiences of its leaders and common soldiers, the home front, and the military campground, from its causes to its consequences. Date range: 1858-1911.
Black Freedom Struggle in the United States POWER Library
The Black Freedom Struggle resource is provided complimentary by ProQuest. It features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. By centering on the experiences and perspectives of African Americans, it is hoped that this collection imbues the study of Black history with a deeper understanding of the humanity of people who have pursued the quest for freedom, and the significance of movements like Black Lives Matter. The Black Freedom Struggle website presents primary source documents from several of the time periods in American History, and contains approximately 1,600 documents focused on six different phases of Black Freedom.
PA Photos and Documents POWER Library
Explore millions of digitized photographs, documents, and newspapers from Pennsylvania's rich and varied history. The collections are provided by libraries and other organizations across the Commonwealth.
Languages:
Transparent Language Online POWER Library
Whether you’re a true language learning beginner, dusting off your old high school Spanish, or eager to tackle your tenth language—Transparent Language Online will help you get started and stick with it!
With this resource you can:
* Learn 120+ languages, including:
* American Sign Language
* English (ESL/ELL) learning content for speakers of over 30 languages 30+ endangered North American and world languages (with more added every year!)
* Practice listening, speaking, reading, and writing/typing with interactive lessons and courses
* Build and maintain your vocab with vocab-focused lessons and a strategic review system that keeps it all fresh
* Learn anytime, anywhere with mobile apps that include offline and hands-free modes
* Explore a wide range of interests through courses focused on travel, workplace language, and beyond.
Pronunciator
Want to learn a new language? Try Pronunciator, a language-learning service featuring 163 languages with personalized courses, movies, music, and more! Learn how to speak a new language with the help of a variety of interactive techniques to meet the needs of both beginners and advanced learners. It also includes interactive ESL for 144 non-English home languages, citizenship preparation, and COVID-19 language courses. Apps for Android and Apple devices are also available.
Literature:
Contemporary Authors POWER Library
Discover biographical and bibliographical information on more than 160,000 of today's most influential authors.
Cricket Media Collection POWER Library
This collection includes hundreds of eBooks from renowned family publisher Cricket Media. It can help build strong literacy skills in students from grades pre-K to 8 by offering digital access to award-winning, short-form fiction and nonfiction titles. This unique eBook collection explores a wide range of subjects to help young readers explore and expand their worlds
NoveList Plus K-8
Calling all kids and parents! NoveList K-8 Plus is a subset of the database used in NoveList Plus and is a resource all about books specifically for younger readers. It helps readers find books that are just right for specific reading levels and interests while providing suggestions for picture books, chapter books, children's, and younger teen books in both fiction and nonfiction.
NoveList Plus
Looking for your next book? Want to find more from your favorite authors? As a comprehensive readers’ advisory resource, NoveList Plus will answer all your reading questions! With NoveList Plus, you can find read-a-like titles, explore your favorite genres, and fill up your reading list in no time!
Science:
Science Reference Center POWER Library
Perform research from hundreds of full text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other reliable sources. View more than 280,000 high-quality science images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library.
Science Reference eBook Collection POWER Library
Explore science from over 230 full-text eBooks! This collection of reference titles covers a wide variety of topics such as animals, biology, climate change, computing, engineering, experiments, life science, nature, oceans, physical science, and weather.
GreenFILE POWER Library
This comprehensive e-resource draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Research:
Academic Search Main Edition POWER Library
Discover full-text scholarly content for major college courses. Designed specifically for academic institutions and college-level students, Academic Search Main Edition provides authoritative full-text and peer-reviewed journals from nearly 1,900 full-text journals and nearly 1,300 full-text peer-reviewed journals. Subjects covered include biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion and theology, and more.
EBSCO eBooks POWER Library
Select from over 16,000 eBooks from the world's leading publishers across all major subject areas. Perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online.
Gale eBooks POWER Library
Explore encyclopedias and specialized reference sources on a variety of topics from history, government, environment, math, and more!
Proquest eBook Central POWER Library
This resource includes 112 titles on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and cover subjects such as business, education, fine arts, history, political science, social science, juvenile literature, and sports and recreation.
SIRS Discoverer POWER Library
This database provides coverage in areas including history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology. All newspaper, magazine, and reference book content is 100% full text, editorially-selected and indexed from over 2,200 reliable, high-quality global sources, including 400 full-text nonfiction books and around 300 full-text book chapters from publishers such as Britannica, World Book, Rosen Publishing Group, Enslow, and ReferencePoint Press. Also find:
Controversial Issues: Over 80 issues including Alien Life and UFOs, Animal Shelters, Coral Reefs, Coronavirus, Cryptozoology, Election 2020, Fake News, Girls and Women in Sports, Honeybee Population, Prisons, Racism, School Lunches, Service and Support Animals, Student-Athlete Compensation, and Transportation.
* Animal Facts: Over 325 animal fact pages including Asian Water Buffalo, Brown Recluse Spider, Elk, Funnel Web Spider, Howler Monkey, Piranha, Quetzal, Quokka, Spider Monkey, Yak
* Famous People: Over 200 famous people/biographies pages including Bill Clinton, Christa McAuliffe, Chuck Berry, Frida Kahlo, John Lewis, Kobe Bryant, Langston Hughes, Marion Anderson, Pele, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Greta Thunberg, Hank Aaron, Joe Biden, Joy Harjo, and Kamala Harris.
* Country Facts: 200 Country Fact pages with sections including information on population, government type, government official, agriculture, language, and holidays.
Online Learning:
PA Online Learning (Niche Public Academy) POWER Library
PA Online Learning is a FREE (and growing) collection of tutorials on a variety of topics, including:
* using AI effectively
* navigating cybersecurity
* mastering Microsoft Office, include Excel and Word
* developing business resources
* improving management skills
* building employee development plans
* honing negotiation skills
* implementing social media
* writing grant applications
* improving employee scheduling and time management
* conductive effective meetings and more!
For Parents:
ParentTV
ParentTV offers thousands of on-demand parenting videos and courses with content designed to support those who care for children, from pregnancy through to teenage years. ParentTV works with leading psychologists, pediatricians, mental health specialists, nutritionists, occupational therapists and parenting educators across the globe.
Search and find videos on general parenting, play, behavior, child development, mental health, sleep, nutrition, technology and more. Most videos are under 10 minutes in length and can be accessed on your computer, tablet, or smartphone.