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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 …

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 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 …

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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 …

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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®).

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 …

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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 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 …

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  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 …

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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:

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 …

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The E-Book Collection is the single access point for all e-books previously found in EBSCO E-Books, GALE E-Books, and ProQuest E-Book Central.

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, …

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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, …

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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, …

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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 …

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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.

This resource includes full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. Perfect for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information …

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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 24/7. Test prepa­ra­tion, writ­ing assis­tance and career resources are also pro­vid­ed for K‑12, adult and ESL …

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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 …

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Juvenile eBooks on EBSCOhost offers online and downloadable nonfiction eBooks, pre-filtered to show only Juvenile titles. 

Kids in the House was originally published by the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, providing educational and entertaining information about the legislative branch of the United States Government to students of all ages. Find activities …

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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, …

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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 

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.

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 …

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Get the Help You Need Today! PA Navigate is a secure website that helps Pennsylvanians connect with community services they need and keeps referrers in the loop. Help is available for needs such as food security, transportation, housing, and more. …

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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 …

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Search many of the Gale e-resources available in POWER Library in one place! 

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.  

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, …

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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.

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.