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Online Resources - All FREE of charge to Penn Area Library card holders!
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Polaris Catalog |
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Search the library's
holdings for books, eBooks, digital records,
images, periodicals, and more. |
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Overdrive |
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Borrow digital media
-- audiobooks, ebooks -- with your library card. |
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OneClick Digital |
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Downloadable
audiobooks for children and adults. |
p4A Antiques
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Provides descriptive
information along with recently paid prices for antiques,
collectibles, art and historic Americana sold at art auctions
across the country. |
Gale
Cengage Learning |
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Four databases
including: InfoTrac Newstand (full-text newspapers), General
OneFile (news and periodical articles on a wide range of
topics), and LegalForms (PA legal
forms). Also searchable eBooks and several resources: encyclopedias and
dictionaries, answer encyclopedia, movie information, and
literary index. |
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Mango Languages |
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Learn foreign
languages online: Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese,
French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese,
and more. |
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Learning Express |
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Comprehensive
courses in math, reading, and writing; resume writing and
workplace skills enrichment; and more than 300 online
practice tests for students and adults of all ages including
ACT, SAT, and GED. |
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Heritage Quest |
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Start exploring
your roots with this collection of materials for both
genealogical and historical research, with coverage dating
back to the late 1700s. Find your ancestors, trace their
paths across America, and learn what life was like in the
areas where they settled. |
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Grolier Online |
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Eight databases
including The New Book of Knowledge®, Grolier Multimedia
Encyclopedia™, Encyclopedia Americana®, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre,
The New Book of Popular Science, Lands and Peoples, America the
Beautiful, and Amazing Animals of the World. |
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Ask Here PA |
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Connect online
with a real librarian -- one-to-one in real-time -- for help
with any topic or information need. |
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Power Library |
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More than 2,000
full text magazines, journals, and newspapers; specialized
databases for art and music, medical resources, historic
photographs, and general reference; an encyclopedia, maps,
almanacs, the Associated Press photo archive, and other
references. |
POLARIS CATALOG
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Search the library's holdings for books, eBooks, digital records,
images, periodicals, and more. You can search by Author, Title, Series
Title, Author and Title, Library of Congress Subject, Library of
Congress Childrens Subject, Sears Subject, and more.
ONECLICK DIGITAL
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Download audiobooks for children and adults. User
friendly site for viewing new releases, saving and filtering searches,
and more. Compatible devices include iPod, Creative Zen, SanDisk Sansa,
Sony Walkman E, and more.
 OVERDRIVE
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Enter your library card number -- PPAL and the numbers -- to begin.
Borrow digital media -- audiobooks, ebooks -- with your
library card. Compatible devices include Nook, Sony Reader, iPad, iPhone,
iPod, and many more!
Selections include both fiction and nonfiction for both
children and adults.
 P4A
ANTIQUES REFERENCE
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Click here to use at remote location
Enter your library card number -- PPAL and the numbers -- to begin.
The p4 Antiques reference database provides detailed
descriptive information along with recently paid prices for antiques,
collectibles, fine art, and historic Americana sold at auctions across
the United States. There also is a color photograph for each item
listed.
In addition to a specific item description, information
on condition and provenance is included whenever available. Prices
realized are clearly shown with date and place sold. A customized
auction note is included to describe the overall sales environment for a
given record. Information of dubious value, such as grouped items
selling for one money, is deleted; trade abbreviations and truncated
jargon are expanded and simplified for the general user.
GALE
CENGAGE LEARNING
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Enter the password "library".
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Access thousands of full-text eBooks on virtually any
subject. No special reader or hardware required. Ability to
print, e-mail, and download articles. On-demand content
translation into 11 languages. Includes ReadSpeaker
technology (text-to-speech) allowing text to be read aloud
to users and downloaded in MP3 format. |
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InfoTrac Newsstand
InfoTrac Newsstand is an innovative Web-based full-text newspaper
database which allows users to search articles instantly by title,
headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields. Finally, a
one-stop source for the day's news and searchable archives. You can
customize your online newspaper database features including search
options. With InfoTrac Newsstand, you can search a collection of more
than 1,000 newspapers, then select your own screen appearance, search
options and results format. |
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General OneFile
1980 - Present
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of
topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education,
environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature
and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many
general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with
images. Updated daily.
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Gale LegalForms
Provides a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal
forms across the most popular legal areas. Includes real estate
contracts, wills, pre-marital agreements, bankruptcy, divorce, landlord
tenant and many others. Also included is a comprehensive attorney state
directory and a dictionary of legal definitions explained in laymen's
language.
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Encyclopedia.com
A free online encyclopedia that features premier titles like The
Columbia Encyclopedia, Oxford's World Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia
of World Biography. Encyclopedia.com offers millions of free articles,
pictures, facts, and biographies along with information about topics
like the arts, science, sports, medicine, accounting, and management. It
is an ideal online reference source for researchers, students,
educators, and professionals alike. Also includes an online dictionary
collection that is an invaluable research tool with exhaustive
information ranging from the general purpose Oxford Pocket Dictionary of
Current English, to social science terms in A Dictionary of Psychology,
to health-related nutrition definitions in A Dictionary of Food
Nutrition.
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Answers
Encyclopedia
Answers Encyclopedia gives you answers from published reference sources
you can trust. Not just anyone's answers are put on the site. Instead,
each answer is verified and linked to a trusted reference source like
Encyclopedia.com so you can read more facts about the answer. |
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Movie
Retriever
Rate movies. Write your own reviews. Create your movie watch lists.
Share lists with the community.
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Literary Index
Gale's Literary Index provides quick and easy access to author and title
listings from over 130 literature products from Gale. The referenced
products contain complete biographies on authors and critical essays on
their writings. It combines and cross-references over 165,000 author
names, including pseudonyms and variant names, and listings for over
215,000 titles into one source. |
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 MANGO LANGUAGES
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Enter your library card number -- PPAL and the numbers -- to begin.
This premier online software program for libraries is a
unique way to learn a foreign language. It combines linguistic expertise
from across the globe with the latest software technologies, providing
an easy-to-use interactive learning tool. Remote online access allows
patrons to learn at their convenience. Mango also features a unique
comprehensive teaching approach that actively engages audio and visual
cues to assist users in language retention.
Mango Languages currently offers 12 language courses --
Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek,
Russian, Mandarin Chinese, ESL for Polish speakers, ESL for Spanish
speakers, and ESL for Brazilian Portuguese speakers -- with many more on
the way.
 LEARNING EXPRESS -
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Register for an account and begin.
Learning Express is an innovative instructional and test
preparation web site that offers comprehensive courses in math, reading,
and writing; essay writing practice with instant scoring; resume writing
and workplace skills enrichment; and more than 300 online practice tests
for students and adults of all ages.
Free, unlimited access to interactive skill-building
courses and a broad range of practice tests based on such official exams
as the ACT, SAT, GED, ASVAB, Firefighter, Police Officer, Paramedic, EMT
Basic, U.S. Citizenship, Postal Worker, Cosmetology, Real Estate Agent &
Broker Exams. All practice tests include instant score reports that help
you target those skill areas that need the most attention. Complete
answer explanations accompany each test question so that you understand
why a particular answer is right or wrong. If you are preparing for the
SAT or GED, Learning Express offers a complete course series, as
well as targeted essay writing practice with multiple writing prompts
and instant score reports that immediately let you know how you
performed in each skill area.
 HERITAGE QUEST
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Enter your library card number -- PPAL and the numbers -- to begin.
Heritage Quest includes all of the images, and extensive
indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more
than 27,000 book titles, including nearly 12,000 family histories and
over 15,000 local histories. The newest books to the collection come
from never-before digitized books from the American Antiquarian Society.
Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source
documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more
invaluable sources of information including Periodical Source Index
(PERSI), a widely recognized resource guide, updated annually, that
covers more than 6,300 genealogy and history periodicals written in
English and French (Canada) since 1800. There are other valuable
collections such as the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land
Warrant Application Files, which identifies more than 80,000 American
military, naval, and marine officers and enlisted men. The forthcoming
Freedman’s Bank Records is a database that documents more than 70,000
bank depositors and their dependants and heirs. The Freedman’s Bank
Records is considered one of the most important resources for
African-American genealogical research.
 GROLIER ONLINE
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Enter your library card number -- PPAL and the numbers -- to begin.
Grolier Online is an educational portal providing access to information
from many electronic sources. This online suite consists of eight
databases, with the foundation being three of the best-known
encyclopedias:
The New Book of Knowledge®,
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia™, and Encyclopedia Americana®. Plus,
five more specialty databases:
La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, The New Book of Popular Science,
Lands and Peoples,
America the Beautiful, and Amazing Animals of the World.
 ASK HERE PA
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Don't search...Find. Connect online with a real librarian -- one-to-one
in real-time -- for help with any topic or information need. Available
24 hours a day / 7 days a week!
 POWER LIBRARY
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Click here to use
Enter your library card number -- PPAL and the numbers -- to
begin.
The Online World
of Electronic Resources is provided by the
State of Pennsylvania through Commonwealth Libraries to public
library card holders. A resource for all ages,
POWER Library provides more than 2,000 full text magazines,
journals, and newspapers. There are specialized databases for art and
music, medical resources, historic photographs, and general reference. It
also includes an encyclopedia, maps, almanacs, the Associated Press
photo archive, and other references.
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