About Adams County Library System

The P.O.W.E.R. Library allows you to access thousands of full-text periodical articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, and reference materials from any Internet connected computer.

Directions for home use | Databases

Go to Access PA POWER Library

The P.O.W.E.R Library is a service provided by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
What you need to use these databases:

You will need to have access to a computer.
You will need to have internet access.
You will need to have an Adams County Library card which has been updated in the past three years.

Instructions:

Go to the homepage of Adams County Library System: www.adamslibrary.org

Click on the icon
POWER Library

Read the page (you're currently on) and then click on: Go to Access PA P.O.W.E.R. Library

In the box, type the barcode number which is on the back of your library card. (It should be 14 digits.)

Click on the submit box.

You are now in Access PA Power Libraries Databases.
For a description of the Databases keep scrolling down this page.


DatabaseDescription
Wilson OmniFile Mega and OmniFile Select A  periodical index and reference database. The full text of selected articles are also available.

Associated Press Photo Archive An archive of 500,000 current and historical photographs that can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs added daily.

Contemporary Authors & Scribner Writers Series Series provide biographic and critical essay information on modern novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, and noted scholars.

ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA Database Catalog records and locations for materials owned by over 1,500 school, public, academic, and special libraries in Pennsylvania.


Go to ACCESS PA POWER Library!


Adams County Library System
140 Baltimore St.
Gettysburg, PA 17325
717-334-5716

Administration Hours:
Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

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