eResources

This genealogy database provides access to U.S. and some European census data, ship's logs and passenger indexes, vital records and social security death index records, WWI draft registration cards, maps, genealogy reference books, and more. Provided by Montgomery County.

Ask Here PA is designed to provide fast answers to your questions, using information found on the Internet and in proprietary databases funded by libraries. In most cases, Ask Here PA Librarians will provide an answer online in 15 minutes or less! If your question involves lengthy research, we'll get you started and/or provide a referral for you or your question.

Book SnapShots helps you find books and authors by topics and genres. Includes  Reading Olympics. SnapShots can also help you find books and authors that are similar to ones that you find here.  Also try Novelist for additional readers advisory recommendations.  

Booklist Online is a 100-year-old journal, published by the American Library Association.  Booklist Online is a subscription database created from the journal. The subscription database contains archived reviews and features that are dynamically linked.  The database contains over 120,000 reviews and thousands of features dating back to 1992.

This scholarly business database provides bibliographic and full-text covering all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This resource contains full text for nearly 2,500 magazines and journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,300 titles.

This resource offers consumer information on many products, including appliances, electronics and home and garden items.

A unique collection of five interactive eBooks that gives students hands-on experience in navigating the online world in a safe, controlled environment. Titles include Stopping Cyberbullying, Avoiding Predators Online, Protecting Your Privacy Online, Using Social Networks and Playing Games Online. Provided by POWER Library.

eBooks on EBSCO Host has approximately 14,000 electronic books in all subject areas from careers to classics to Cliffs notes. Full text and searchable.  

New EBSCO App

The free EBSCOhost app for iPhones and Android devices allows users to search premium EBSCOhost database content.

Use this fun, easy-to-use resource that's powered by EBSCO Explora to discover reliable information on thousands of topics covering a wide range of subjects including art and music, literature, language arts, geography, history, social studies, world cultures and languages, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, health, and sports.

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Use this e-resource to discover reliable information on thousands of topics covering a wide range of subjects including art and music, literature, language arts, geography, history, social studies, world cultures and languages, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, health, and sports. 
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LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) has information on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings.

Mango Languages is an online learning tool that teaches conversation skills and culture learning for over 70 different languages. Learn at your own pace from any internet connected computer or a mobile device.

Medical information at your fingertips! Access both the Consumer Version and the Professional Version of the Merck Manuals here.  The Consumer Version offers information on medical topics, symptoms, drugs, procedures, news and more, written in everyday language and the Professional Version offers this information written for the health care professional.

This resource provides full text for popular, middle school appropriate magazines, covering a wide range of topics. All full text articles are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles).

Provides the latest news from over 1,000 leading full text newspapers including extensive cover to cover for papers such as USA Today, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. In addition, this resource also features hundreds of television and radio transcripts including ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, National Public Radio, PBS and more.

NoveList provides access to full text reviews, annotations, publication information, subject headings and more for more than 120,000 works of fiction. In addition, this database can recommend similar titles and authors, provide guides for book discussions and more. This database can search for titles by author, title, series or even by plot descriptions.

Explore thousands of digitized documents and photographs from unique collections in libraries across Pennsylvania. You’ll be amazed by what you find

Philadelphia Inquirer 1981-current.
Full text articles, photos and obituaries.

Get Ready for the New School Year with POWER Kids!

Check out the POWER Library webpage dedicated to serving kids.  Kid-centered eResources, Chat with a Librarian, books, movies and PA Photos and Documents are now presented in a single, kid-friendly interface. 

Provides access to popular full-text magazines for elementary school research. Subjects include Science, Health, Math, Writing, and Geography among others.

RBdigital (formerly Zinio) offers access to the digital copy of the current issue of magazines.  Patrons can browse the library’s collection of over 100 titles, search for your favorite magazine in full color and check them out!

Reference USA provides data for business and consumer research.

Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full-text science-oriented content. It contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources.

Indexing and abstracts for 260 journals and magazines for teachers and administrators.

Provided by POWER Library.

Your child can watch and listen to a large collection of animated, online story books. There is also a large collection of audio books, including ones in French and Spanish. TumbleBooks also has book related puzzles & games.