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the union catalog of Pennsylvania libraries. |
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Spanning
more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history,
this comprehensive online database provides extensive coverage of the
history of America and its people. |
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The
widest-ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American
life ever assembled, The African American Experience is the definitive
electronic research tool for African American history and culture from
one of the most respected publishers in the field. |
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| The American Indian Experience (AIE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States. | |
Wide-ranging
and easy to use, the Latino American Experience (LAE) is the first-ever
full-text database focusing on the history and culture of Latinos living
in the United States. |
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American
Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows
people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database
will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants,
slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. |
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An
archive of more than 500,000 current and historical photographs and
graphics that can be searched by date, place and subject. Updated daily. |
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This
database is the first online resource to document the history of African
American music in an online music listening service. The collection
contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime,
folk songs, and narratives, among others. |
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Search
for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death
year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria
to create a highly-targeted custom search. |
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Selections
range from the earliest Gregorian chants to works by modern composers—including
symphonic music, vocal and instrumental music, choral works, and other
forms. Content is published under licensing agreements with more than
30 music l abels, including major labels and independents, with ongoing
license negotiations adding to the range of available tracks.
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Download
weekly updated free classical music and play it on your MP3 player. |
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Classical
Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of classical scores from both
in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers output
is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. |
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| Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on all of the more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors whose entries appear in Contemporary Authors and Contemporary Authors New Revision Series. Updated monthly, Contemporary Authors allows users to search for an author by name, title of work, nationality, date and place of birth and death, subject/genre, personal and career information, awards and honors, and more. | |
Contemporary
World Music will contain 50,000 tracks that delivers the sounds of all
regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres
such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz,
African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such
as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco,
gospel, gagaku, and more. |
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Combining
three rich databases to provide a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary
resource that supports history, social studies, English, and language
students, Daily Life Online moves seamlessly from past to present,
providing context for contemporary life and culture. |
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| A dazzling web experience for anyone with a hankering to explore the back roads and byways of the American experience. | |
| Folklore permeates the everyday lives of people around the world. We inherit a rich tradition of holidays, festivals, language, stories and fairy tales, proverbs, foodways, and folk remedies that define our society and our place within it. World Folklore and Folklife provides an exciting and accessible way to explore this vast and growing treasury of knowledge. | |
| EBSCO (via the POWER Library) |
This
collection of research databases includes Masterfile Premier, which
indexes 400 general interest periodicals and provides many full-text
articles; the education database ERIC, and Health Source
medical databases. Databases for grade school and middle-school
children can also be found here. |
The
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive
online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.
More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than
700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most
complete body of work focused on world music. |
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Grolier Online |
Grolier
Online is an educational portal providing access to Amazing Animals
of the World: Reference and media on 1200 animals; America the Beautiful:
State-by-state history and current events;Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia™:
Reference for middle and high school; Lands and Peoples: Up-to-date
information for country and state reports; La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre:
Complete encyclopedia for Spanish speakers; The New Book of Popular
Science: In-depth science, & science in the news. |
GrantSelect
is an extensive online grants database owned and operated by Schoolhouse
Partners, and it contains more than 10,000 funding opportunities provided
by more than 4,000 sponsoring organizations. |
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Heritage Quest |
With
over 25,000 books, the entire U.S. Federal Census, and other expanding
collections, HeritageQuest Online gives any library the chance to tap
in to one of the largest collections of genealogy material in the country.
The library also provides in-house access to ancestry.com, which has
more than 1.5 billion names in over 4,000 databases. |
| JSTOR | JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. |
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LearningExpressLibrary.com
offers test preparation materials and interactive practice exams based
on official tests. This service provides immediate scoring, complete
answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.
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| LRC
is a completely full-text database that combines information from over
1,000 books and monographs, major literary encyclopedias and reference
works, hundreds of literary journals, and unique sources not available
anywhere else. |
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| LitFinder (found in the Literature group on the POWER Library main page.) |
Contains
three databases: Poem Finder allows patrons to search for full-text
poems, poet biographies, a Kids’ Korner, and the Year’s
Best Poetry. Story Finder provides thousands of full text short stories
with explanations, biographies, and more. Use Essay Finder to locate
full text essays and discursive writing based on books published in
the 20th century. The essays focus on humanities and social sciences
and include biographies and literary criticisms. |
| Morningstar The library has renewed its subscription for two simultaneous users; if you can't access the database, please try again at a later time. |
Morningstar helps you identify stocks or mutual funds that meet your needs. Create your own stock or fund screens with the Morningstar Screener, or use Morningstar Screens to get ideas on stocks and funds. |
| MyiLibrary
an online eBook and eContent resource for libraries. |
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NoveList
allows readers to use a favorite author or title as a template to locate
other authors and titles of interest. In addition, three powerful search
techniques allow readers to look for books by entering descriptive terms
that appear in subject headings, reviews, and other fields in the title
records. Users can browse theme-oriented book lists at every reading
level through Explore Fiction, and look for outstanding titles in Best
Fiction. |
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A
complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint
articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites,
and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. |
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Oxford Reference Online (Found in the General Reference group
on the POWER Library Main Page) |
Oxford
Reference Online brings together 100 language and subject dictionaries
and reference works - containing well over 60,000 pages - into a single
cross-searchable resource. |
Databases
for many different levels of research, including Searchasaurus,
Ebsco's colorful, graphical interface for elementary and middle school
students that makes research simple and fun; SIRS Discoverer,
an interactive reference tool for young readers including: full-text
articles and graphics, country facts, and World Almanac; Masterfile
Premier, which indexes 400 general interest periodicals and provides
many full-text articles; and the education database ERIC, Health
Source medical databases, and Business Source Premier
and Auto Repair Reference Center. |
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| Popular Culture Universe | Pop Culture Universe is an authoritative, yet irresistible, digital library of information on American and world popular culture, past and present—in a package as dynamic as the topic it covers.Built on hundreds of award-winning titles for all levels of researchers, PCU provides a safe haven for investigating topics that appeal to students—without the bias, advertising, suggestive content, or questionable authorship of commercial or fan sites. |
P4A Antiques Reference |
Wondering
if that chair Aunt Kay gave you 50 years ago might be worth something? You can easily find auction records using the P4A ("Prices for Antiques"). |
Project Muse |
Project
MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing
100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300
high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60
scholarly publishers. |
Reference USA |
A
proprietary database of virtually all U.S. and Canadian businesses and
residents. |
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries |
This
database is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural
traditions. The collection provides interested listeners with an unprecedented
variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and
preservation of diverse musical forms. |
Teen
Health and Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers is a comprehensive database
that allows teens (and those who care about teens) to research health-related
issues important to their well-being. |
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TELL
ME MORE is a comprehensive foreign language learning method that combines
the richness and quality of its contents with the flexibility and interactive
features of multimedia. Through different types of activities, the method
aims to develop the essential skills needed to communicate: oral and
written comprehension, oral and written expression, vocabulary and grammar. |
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| TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of TumbleBooks – animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. | |
| The Vault online Career Library is the foremost source of research on employers, industries, and much more. |
last updated June 25, 2009