The award-winning ABCmouse.com curriculum from Age of Learning, Inc. is designed to help children ages 2–7+build a strong foundation for academic success. ABCmouse.com is 100% educational, with more than 4,000 learning activities across all major subject areas-reading, math, science, social …
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, law, nutrition science, mental health services, public policy and administration, religion and theology, …
Licensed for use inside the physical library buildings only. Ancestry® Library Edition is one of the most important genealogical collections available today. It has unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration …
AP Images offers photographs, audio sound bites, video, and graphics capturing the greatest events in world history.
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 …
BarPrepHero.com is a free resource to assist US law students and graduates preparing to take their MBE exam. The practice tests are based on the previous Multistate Bar Examination questions written by the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE®).
Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government, a service of the Government Publishing Office (GPO), is designed to inform students, parents, and educators about the Federal Government, which issues the publications and information products disseminated by the GPO’s Federal Depository Library …
The Black Freedom Struggle resource is provided at no cost to the POWER Library by ProQuest. It features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history. By centering on the experiences and perspectives of …
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 …
Britannica School PreK – 5th is a comprehensive source of informational text for younger learners pre-K to grade 5. It includes encyclopedia articles, images, videos, and magazine articles. There is a Britannica Fundamentals section for children Pre-K through grade 2.
Chat with a Librarian offers 24/7 access to chat online, text, or email with a real librarian in real-time for help with any topic or information need.
Choice Magazine Listening provides audio recordings of memorable articles, stories, interviews, essays and poems from outstanding current magazines, completely free of charge, to blind, visually impaired, physically disabled or dyslexic adults.
cloudLibrary is a digital lending service for eBooks, eAudiobooks, and streaming video, including movies, documentaries, and TV series. Patrons with a valid library card from any public library in the Johnstown Library District (encompassing Cambria, Indiana and Somerset counties) can …
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cloudLibrary NewsStand gives you all-you-can-read access to over 7,000 magazine and newspaper titles in your browser or on your smart device using the cloudLibrary NewsStand app from your app device’s app store. FREE with your library card from any participating library …
Click the logo to directly access the cloudLibrary streaming video catalog of movies, documentaries, and TV series. Select “Johnstown District Library” as your library and login with your library barcode number and PIN. Download the app or watch online through …
CNA.plus is designed to help US learners pass their Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) test. The site provides free Certified Nursing Assistant Practice Tests practice tests that simulate the official exam. All test questions are based on the 2016 National …
The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration partners with various museums and other professional content providers to provide free online programming on a variety of topics to students, teachers, families and lifelong learners.
Discover biographical and bibliographical information on more than 145,000 of today’s most influential authors, including:
Offers more than five million articles from more than 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines, as well as book reference content.
DailyMed provides trustworthy information about marketed drugs. DailyMed is the official provider of FDA label information (package inserts). This Web site provides a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling found in medication package inserts.
The Public Library Association‘s site, DigitalLearn.org is an online hub for digital literacy support and training. The site launched in June 2013 and builds upon and fosters the work of libraries and community organizations as they work to increase …
This magazine covers civil rights, education, entrepreneurship and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes more than 800 issues providing a broad view of African-American culture from its first issue in 1945 through 2014. This fully searchable full-text …
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. Additionally, you may download selected …
EdX offers interactive online classes and massive open online courses (MOOCs) from the world’s best universities, colleges and organizations. Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, UTx and many other universities. Topics include biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, electronics, engineering, …
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. Kids InfoBits includes full-text proprietary content from Blackbirch Press®, U-X-L, …
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.
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. Research In Context offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state standards, …
Gale Reference eBooks include encyclopedias and specialized reference sources on a variety of topics from history, government, environment, science, math, and more!
From Microsoft Office and email to reading, math, and more, GCFLearnFree.org offers 125 tutorials, including more than 1,100 lessons, videos, and interactives, completely free. A program of the Goodwill Community Foundation® and Goodwill Industries of Eastern NC, Inc.® (GIENC®), all GCFLearnFree.org® even …
Genetics Home Reference provides consumer-friendly information about the effects of genetic variation on human health.
A great collection of librarian-selected websites for kids, websites by kids, and websites about kids! Includes a section aimed at parents, teachers, caregivers, and other concerned adults.
GreenFILE is a comprehensive e-resource that draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
HelpNow by Brainfuse provides free homework help and online tutoring for grades 3 – 12 for math, English, science and social studies. Chat with a tutor from 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM seven days a week. Test preparation, writing assistance and career …
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. InfoTrac Newsstand also …
This resource provides a significant account of the issue of slavery and its impact on American society and culture. It documents key aspects of the history of slavery in the United States, from its origins in Africa to its abolition, …
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This resource documents the revolution and war that created the United States Of America, from the Paris peace treaty in 1763 through the early protests in 1785 to the Paris peace treaty of 1783. The collection examines the political, social, …
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This resource documents the war that transformed America, ended slavery, and unified the nation around the principles of freedom. The collection examines the war and all its complexity – its causes and consequences and its leaders and common soldiers, the …
Juvenile eBooks on EBSCOhost offers online and downloadable nonfiction eBooks, pre-filtered to show only Juvenile titles.
The Kids in the House website is a public service provided by the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Its mission is to provide educational and entertaining information about the legislative branch of the United States Government …
LearningExpress Library features nearly 1,000 online tutorials, practice tests, and eBooks to help people of all ages. It offers job search and workplace skills improvement, skill building in reading, writing, math, and basic science, career certification and licensure exam prep, …
Get help with writing college admissions essays and prepare for important tests such as the AP®, ACT®, SAT® , AP® Exams, and more. Need help using LearningExpress Library? See video tutorials at https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/LearningExpress-Tutorials?language=en_US
Brush up on your reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, math and science skills. Prepare for ACCUPLACER® and ASSET® college placement tests, CLEP® exams, and graduate school admissions exams such as the GMAT®, GRE®, LSAT®, MCAT® and PCAT® Need help using LearningExpress …
Elementary and middle school teachers: Supplement classroom instruction with curriculum-aligned materials in math, reading, writing and social studies. This LearningExpress Library Center provides tools Educators can use to help students in grades 4-8 build skills in math, English language arts, …
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Practice tests, eBooks, and tutorials to help you build classroom and homework skills in high school mathematics, English language arts, science, social studies, technology, logic, and reasoning. Need help using LearningExpress Library? See video tutorials at https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/LearningExpress-Tutorials?language=en_US
LISTA is an e-resource that 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.
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health’s Web site for patients and their families and friends.
National Geographic Magazine Archive 1888-2020This iconic monthly publication provides unparalleled, in-depth coverage of society, cultures, nature, science, technology, travel, geography, and more — making it an essential resource for educators and students as well as general readers. This resource include …
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. The News e-resource …
PA Online Learning is a FREE growing collection of tutorials on how to use software, social media, and library resources, such as POWER Library! Explore now and check back later to see how it grows! Selecting the link will take …
Explore millions of digitized photographs, documents, and newspapers from Pennsylvania’s rich and varied history. The collections are provided by libraries and other organizations across the Commonwealth, and include collections covering subjects such as:
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. Resources for veterans are available too that will help …
POWER Teens provides online resources including full-text research e-resources, collections of photographs and documents, the statewide catalog of materials held in libraries throughout Pennsylvania, and Chat with a Librarian.
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. Research In Context offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state standards, …
Explore science from over 230 full-text eBooks! This collection of reference titles covers a wide variety of topics such as animals, biology, climate change, computing, engineering, experiments, life science, nature, oceans, physical science, and weather.
Science Reference Center is a comprehensive POWER Library 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.
This database provides coverage in areas including history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology.
SkillUP PA provides access to no-cost online job skills training to Pennsylvanians. Courses are available by simply registering for a no-cost account on the PA CareerLink website. Contains more than 6,000 training modules. Work toward 130+ industry-recognized credentials, including CompTIA, …
Small Engine Repair Reference Center is an online resource to 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. …
Storyline Online has a collection of videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books aloud. Activity guides provide information about book authors and the actors reading each book and suggest activities related to the book.
Teacher Reference Center is an e-resource for teachers that provides indexing and abstracts for 280 peer-reviewed journals.
This archive presents an extensive collection of the prominent weekly news magazine dating back to its first issue in March 1923 through December 2000, presented in a comprehensive cover-to-cover format. The 4,000 issues include reports of national and international current …
TrueFLIX : The truth. The whole truth. And nothing but the truth about people, places, nature, history, science, and more! TrueFLIX provides eBooks that are enhanced with a related content in a variety of text types and media–including primary sources, …
This magazine features a broad variety of topics in news events, politics and business, and is well known for its ranked lists of businesses and institutions. With 4,900 issues included, the Archive is valuable to researchers of 20th-century current …
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TumbleBook Library is a collection of fiction, non-fiction and foreign language TumbleBooks, Read-Alongs, eBooks, Graphic Novels, National Geographic Videos, and Tumble Puzzles & Games.
TumbleMath is a K-6 math ebook database full of animated and narrated books designed to teach math concepts, especially to reluctant learners, by using stories and literature. The books are accompanied by supplementary materials such as lesson plans and quizzes, …
