eResources

Academic OneFile

Provided by POWER Library

Find peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals in the areas of the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, literature, and more. Undergraduate researchers can expand and refine search results through the Topic Finder, and citation tools are integrated directly into the user's workflow.

Academic Search Main Edition

Provided by POWER Library

Discover full-text scholarly content for major college courses. Designed specifically for academic institutions, Academic Search Main Edition provides 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!

Access World News (via NewsBank)

Access World News is a comprehensive resource that includes a variety of news publications worldwide. These sources include major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles, newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts, and more. Access World News is updated daily to keep you informed of current issues and events, and it includes deep archives that provide background information on important topics, enabling you to trace an issue or event over a period of time to help foster critical thinking skills.

Ancestry.com Library Edition (In-Library Access)

Ancestry.com is the world's largest online family history resource home to billions of historical records, millions of family trees and much more. It's also the world's leading network of businesses dedicated to helping everyone discover, preserve and share their family history. Use this link for in-library access only.

AP Newsroom

Provided by POWER Library

View the greatest events in world history with photographs, audio sound bites, video, and graphics, for over 185 years. Over 3,000 photos/images/sound bites/graphics added daily, including audio and visual snapshots.

AtoZ World Food

Explore food culture and traditional recipes from around the world. It’s a movable feast in a digital cookbook!

AtoZ World Travel

A comprehensive travel guide providing practical information for experiencing the world and all its wonders, for travelers and students alike. Learn about 202 world cities, from Aberdeen to Zürich. Key topics include attractions, city facts, climate and weather, excursions, food and restaurants, health and medical care, language, maps, money and banking, neighborhoods, nightlife, a security briefing, shopping, and transportation.

AtoZdatabases

AtoZdatabases is the premier Reference, Research, Marketing, Mailing Lists/Sales Leads, and Job-Search Database. The database includes 30 million business & executive profiles, over 220 million residents with interests, hobbies and lifestyles information, over 7 million real-time job listings, 2 Million new businesses, over 12 million healthcare professionals, over 12 million new movers, 2 million new homeowners, and much more. The databases are ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, background searches, finding friends, relatives and a whole lot of other possibilities.

Auto Repair Source

Provided by POWER Library

Discover the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles. All content comes from the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and includes step-by-step repair information, diagrams, maintenance schedules, parts and labor estimates, service bulletins and recalls.

Black Freedom Struggle in the United States

Provided by POWER Library

Features select primary source documents (1,600 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.

BookFLIX

Provided by 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!

Books & Authors

Provided by POWER Library

Discover fiction and non-fiction books that match your interests! Books and Authors (powered by Gale's popular What Do I Read Next? series) is for readers from every level of reading proficiency and enables users to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics from more than 240,000 titles.

Books, Movies & More in a PA Library (Access PA Catalog)

Provided by POWER Library

Search a single catalog reflecting the holdings of over 1,500 Pennsylvania libraries and their combined collections of over 41 million books, audio materials, reference materials, movies, and much more. Please use our Interlibrary Loan Request Form to request an item found through this catalog.

BrainFuse HelpNow

Online learning, test prep, and homework help service, including live one on one assistance

BrainFuse JobNow

Online learning, including job coaching, resume assistance, interview practice, and adult learning including GED prep, U.S. Citizenship prep, and MS Office Essential Skills Series. Also includes Spanish-speaking support.

BrainFuse LearnNow

Online learning, including school, college, career, computers, ESL, and lifelong learning. Also includes test preps.

Britannica Children

Discover research topics according to reading level for young learners. Get free access to 3 comprehensive databases, including the Encyclopædia Britannica • Thousands of magazine and journal articles directly related to search topics • More than 24,000 primary sources • Merriam-Webster Dictionary in English/Spanish, plus audio pronunciations • 90,000 images, videos, and audio clips • Subject browse, from animals and the arts to science and math • Biography browse • 129,000 of the Web’s best sites related to search topics

Britannica Reference Center

Get free access to 3 comprehensive databases, including the Encyclopædia Britannica • Thousands of magazine and journal articles directly related to search topics • More than 24,000 primary sources • Merriam-Webster Dictionary in English/Spanish, plus audio pronunciations • 90,000 images, videos, and audio clips • Subject browse, from animals and the arts to science and math • Biography browse • 129,000 of the Web’s best sites related to search topics

Britannica Young Adults

Explore how-to documents for book reviews, presentations, research papers, and science reports. Get free access to 3 comprehensive databases, including the Encyclopædia Britannica • Thousands of magazine and journal articles directly related to search topics • More than 24,000 primary sources • Merriam-Webster Dictionary in English/Spanish, plus audio pronunciations • 90,000 images, videos, and audio clips • Subject browse, from animals and the arts to science and math • Biography browse • 129,000 of the Web’s best sites related to search topics

Business Insights: Essentials

Provided by POWER Library

Find full-text articles and statistical data about companies and industries for business owners, marketing professionals, investors, and students. Access to over 11,000 journals and more than 8,900 in full-text. Instantly analyze and compare financial and statistical data with interactive charting tools. Find thousands of detailed financial reports, more than 2,500 custom business glossary terms, 1,000 SWOT reports, over 17,400 company histories, over 460,000 detailed company profiles, and much more

Consumer Reports

Full access to Consumer Reports' entire online database.

Contemporary Authors

Provided by POWER Library

Discover biographical and bibliographical information on more than 160,000 of today's most influential authors.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation’s largest cultural institutions.

Driving-Tests.org

We've partnered with Driving-Tests.org to offer free online test prep for students preparing for their PA driving tests! Choose from several different permit tests, written specifically based on the state DMV materials. No library card number or personal information is needed! This resource is also great for anyone looking to brush up on their knowledge of PA’s traffic laws or interested in getting their motorcycle license.

E-Books (EBSCO)

Provided by 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.

Educator’s Reference Complete

Provided by POWER Library

Access over 1,100 academic journals and ERIC database reports in the field of education. Key subject areas include administration, bilingual education, child development and psychology, funding, health education, technology, and testing.

Elementary

Provided by 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.

Environmental Studies

Provided by POWER Library

Explore an interdisciplinary resource for environment and sustainability studies. Find news, background information, video, commentaries, primary source documents and statistics in relevant topic areas such as energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, and economic development.

Gale E-Books

Explore encyclopedias and specialized reference sources on a variety of topics from history, government, environment, math, and more!

Gale ONEFILE High School Edition

Provided by 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.

Gale Topic Collections

Provided by POWER Library

Explore topic collections from Agriculture to World History with 29 e-resources covering business information, communications, diversity, environment, fine arts, hospitality, military, nursing, pop culture, psychology, religion and more!

GALE Virtual Reference Library

Provided by POWER Library

Explore encyclopedias and specialized reference sources on a variety of topics from history, government, environment, math, and more!

General OneFile

Provided by POWER Library

Explore this general-interest periodical resource offering nearly more than 15,000 titles with more than 8,800 in full text. With millions of articles available in PDF and HTML full-text, the collection is also supplemented by reference, newspaper, and audio content.

GreenFILE (EBSCO)

Provided by 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.

Health & Wellness Resource Center

Provided by POWER Library

Discover reliable health information through access to full-text articles of nursing and allied health journals, pamphlets, newsletters, periodicals, newspapers, encyclopedias, and more.

Heritage Hub (via Newsbank)

Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1704 – today. HeritageHub helps you easily identify relatives, uncover new information and potentially unknown family members. Includes deep coverage from all 50 states, hard-to-find content from the mid 1900’s, and original obituary images. Access is available 24/7

HeritageQuest

Search the U.S. Federal Census (1790-1930), family genealogies and local history articles, Revolutionary War era pension and bounty-land warrant application files, and individuals in Freedman’s Bank (1865-1874), founded to serve African Americans.

Hoopla

Only Available to PCL Home Library Patrons (Parkland School District and Northwestern residents only). Hoopla is a groundbreaking digital media service that allows you to borrow ebooks, audiobooks, movies, music, comics, and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone – and even your TV! (See "supported devices" list here). With no waiting, titles can be streamed immediately or downloaded to phones or tablets for offline enjoyment later. Learn about ebooks in our News blog here.

Informe Academico

Provided by POWER Library

Informe Académico proporciona acceso a periódicos y revistas especializadas de lengua española y portuguesa. La base de datos ofrece una amplia gama de contenidos sobre América Latina. (Informe Académico supports Spanish-speaking researchers with a wide range of full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America. Use the Topic Finder—a visual search tool—to discover new facets of a topic, or use the Readspeaker text-to-speech tool that allows text to be read aloud.)

Libby, OverDrive (Carbon Lehigh Downloadable Library)

Libby, the improved reading app brought to you by the same people as OverDrive. Downloadable ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines. As of May 1, 2023, the original OverDrive app will not be available and has been removed from the Google Play, Apple App, and Microsoft stores. Instead, new ebook users must download the Libby app to access OverDrive eBooks and eAudiobooks on their Android and iOS devices. Read more about this transition here. View our quick start guide to using ebooks here.

LISTA

Provided by POWER Library

Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA): This e-resource indexes more than 700 journals in library science & technology plus books, research reports and proceedings. Coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960's. Subjects include: Bibliometrics, Cataloging, Classification, Information management, Librarianship, Online information retrieval.

LitFinder

Provided by POWER Library

Gale Literature: LitFinder provides access to a wealth of literary works and secondary-source materials covering world literature and authors throughout history. Including more than 132,000 full-text poems and 670,000+ poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. Researchers can easily target the information they are looking for through various refine search and results limiter options. Biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary are also included.

Middle School

Provided by 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.

Morning Call (via NewsBank)

A searchable database for local, full-text Morning Call newspaper articles from 1984 to the present. This database now also provides full-image versions of published editions of the paper from November 2019 to today.

News

Provided by POWER Library

Browse and read full-text newspapers from more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, plus leading titles from around the world, or search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section, or other fields. News also includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.

NewsBank

NewsBank consolidates current and archived information from thousands of newspaper titles, as well as newswires, web editions, blogs, videos, broadcast transcripts, business journals, periodicals, government documents and other publications. We current have access to two of their premiere databases: Access World News and America's Obituary and Death Notices. Look for these resources' listings above to learn more about them.

Niche Academy PA Power Learning

Access tutorials on popular software programs like Excel, and how to use library resources like POWER Library.

NoveList Plus

NoveList Plus is the premiere database of reading recommendations. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

NoveList Plus K-8

NoveList Plus K-8 is the premiere database of reading recommendations, geared towards children’s and teen’s books. It is a comprehensive source of information about books that includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more.

OverDrive (Carbon Lehigh Downloadable Library) is Changing to Libby

On May 1, 2023, the Overdrive App will no longer allow you to access ebooks through Libby. Ebook users must download the Libby app to access OverDrive eBooks and eAudiobooks on their Android and iOS devices. Read more about this transition here. View our quick start guide to using ebooks here.

PA Photos & Documents

Provided by POWER Library

Explore 700,000 images of Pennsylvania photographs, postcards, manuscripts, oral histories and documents.

Pennsylvania Job Resources

Provided by POWER Library

Discover job resources for Pennsylvania job seekers and employers. These Pennsylvania government provided resources are designed to help you find a good career, review job openings, and match you with employers.

Power Search

Provided by POWER Library

Search many of the Gale e-resources available in POWER Library in one place! Find articles and information from Academic OneFile, General OneFile, InfoTrac Newsstand. Employers across the state are in need of hiring thousands of critical roles. View job opportunities here.

Salem Online

History - primary sources and more. Literature - critical insights, reviews in Magill's literary annual from 1977-present. Science careers database. Health - searchable heathcare database featuring McGills Medical Encyclopedia

Science Reference Center

Provided by 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.

Small Engine Repair Reference Center

Provided by POWER Library

Find detailed repair guides for all types of small engines. Offers assistance in providing routine maintenance (tune-ups, brake service) as well as extensive repairs such as engine and transmission disassembly. Search by product type, brand, model/engine type, specific area of model/engine type and model numbers.

Teacher Reference Center

Provided by POWER Library

This e-resource for teachers provides indexing and abstracts for 280 peer-reviewed journals.

TrueFLIX

Provided by POWER Library

Learn about people, places, nature, history, and science from videos and eBooks on topics such as American Indians, Ancient Civilizations, Farm to Table, The Civil War, Continents, The Thirteen Colonies, U.S. Government, Disasters, Earth Science, Experiments, Extreme Science, Nature, and many more. Best for elementary school-age children.

Universal Class

Free access to over 500 courses from computer skills to business to cooking to pet care. Learn at your own pace. Earn CEUs and certificates. This resource is for patrons whose home library is Parkland. Log in using “PCL” followed by your library card number.

Wall St Journal Digital Access

Access The Wall Street Journal from anywhere! Simply click here and fill in this form. You’ll get a link to create your account, and you can start using wsj.com immediately. Your access will be available for the next 3 days. After 3 days, simply come back and click the above link again (you can bookmark it, or fill the form in again) and login as an existing user with the same username and password you originally created. Note: For Parkland home library patrons only. You are not permitted to share your login information with any person under any circumstances.

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