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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.  SnapShots can also help you find books and authors that are similar to ones that you find here.

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.

Contemporary Authors includes biographies for current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Provided by POWER Library.

Find ratings of local service companies, including auto repair shops, plumbers, veterinarians, banks, doctors, dentists, carpet cleaners, etc. You can read the current issues and find guides to health plans, hospitals and top doctors (rated both by other doctors and by patients).

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.

MasterFILE™ Premier contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for more than 500 reference books, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags. 

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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Online access is now available at Abington Township Public Library! Access to papers dating from 1851 through 1922 and between 1981 through current day is now possible. Activation is required every 72 hours. To activate your subscription, you’ll need to log in or register first.

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.

Get eBooks and audiobooks - downloadable and free for portable devices.  Browse the OverDrive collection for eBooks and Audiobooks.

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

Provided by Montgomery County.

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.

Reference USA provides data for business and consumer research.

SIRS Discoverer gets articles and images from U.S. and international newspapers, magazines and government documents.

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.

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