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Learn About POWER Library
POWER
Library
Pennsylvania Online World
of Electronic Resources
The POWER Library is offered as a FREE service of Pennsylvania's public and school libraries.
The POWER Library allows you free access to thousands of full text periodical
articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts,
maps, reference materials for young people and more. You will find materials of
interest in most subject areas for all age groups from young children to adults.
The POWER Library can be accessed from any of our
Web pages by clicking on the POWER Library link at the top of every
page. To use POWER Library you must have a library card and your browser must
be set to accept "cookies". This allows you to go to different databases in POWER
library without logging in each time.
If you experience problems accessing
the databases, please check the browser
requirements.
At
the log-in screen (shown at right) enter our library's ID number (PL7094)
and the four-digit code from your individual library card. Please contact us at
the Montgomery House Public Library if you have any questions.
Read more about the POWER Library
EBSCO HOST - a comprehensive
periodicals and reference database including: MasterFILE Premiere, Business Source
Elite, Health Source Plus, Newspaper Source, and ERIC.
Grove's Dictionaries - resources
on topics relating to Music, Art, Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Life Sciences as
well as access to the full text and graphics of Scientific American from 1993
to the present
Bigchalk - designed
specifically for younger researchers with tailored content to more than 60 cover-to-cover
magazine and newspaper titles - as well as TV and radio transcripts, books and
reference collections, photographs and images, and maps. 100% full text and updated
daily.
AccuNet/AP
Multimedia Archive - archive
of more than 500,000 current and historical photographs that can be searched by
date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs added daily.
Gale Group - the Contemporary
Authors & Scribner Writers Series provide biographic and critical
essay information on modern novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, and noted
scholars.
Searchasaurus - Ebsco's colorful and graphical
interface for elementary and middle school students makes research simple and
fun. These full text databases are searchable by keyword or by simply clicking
on a subject of interest.
SIRS Discover - an interactive
reference tool for young readers including: full text articles and graphics, country
facts, and World Almanac.
Poem Finder - complete coverage of world
poetry from antiquity to the present. Includes over 70,000 full text poems and
over 750,000 poem citations and excerpts.
ACCESS PA - a web based bibliographic union
catalog and resource sharing guide to Pennsylvania library collections. Over 2,000
school, public, academic, and special libraries are searchable online.
POWER Library Information Center - POWER
Library.net web site offers new announcements and events concerning the POWER
Library, a map to find a local public library offering access from home, an area
to submit comments, and much more!
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