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Online Resources - All FREE of charge to Penn Area Library card holders!

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Polaris Catalog   Search the library's holdings for books, eBooks, digital records, images, periodicals, and more.
Overdrive   Borrow digital media -- audiobooks, ebooks -- with your library card.
OneClick Digital   Downloadable audiobooks for children and adults.
p4A Antiques
Reference
  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
  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.
Mango Languages   Learn foreign languages online: Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, and more.
Learning Express   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.
Heritage Quest   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.
Grolier Online   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.
Ask Here PA   Connect online with a real librarian -- one-to-one in real-time -- for help with any topic or information need.
Power Library   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 - Click here to useSearch the Collection

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 - Click here to use

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.


Click here to use OverdriveOVERDRIVE - Click here to use
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.


Click here to use P4 AntiquesP4A ANTIQUES REFERENCE -
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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 - Click on the links or icons below to use
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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.
 

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.
 
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. Navigation guide
 

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.

 

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.

  Encyclopedia.com
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.
  Answers Encyclopedia
Movie Retriever
Rate movies. Write your own reviews. Create your movie watch lists. Share lists with the community.
  Videohound's Movie Retriever
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.
  Gale Literary Index

 


Click here to use Mango LanguagesMANGO LANGUAGES - Click here to use
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.


Click here to use Learning ExpressLEARNING EXPRESS - Click here to use
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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.


Click here to use Heritage QuestHERITAGE QUEST - Click here to use
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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.


Click here to use Grolier OnlineGROLIER ONLINE - Click here to use
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.


Click here to use Ask Here PAASK HERE PA - Click here to use

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!
 


Click here to use PA Power LibraryPOWER LIBRARY - 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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