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 |
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The P.O.W.E.R Library is a service provided by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. |
What you need to use these databases:
Instructions:
Go to the homepage of Adams County Library System: www.adamslibrary.org
Click on the icon
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.
| EBSCO | A comprehensive 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. |
| Grove's Dictionaries | Comprehensive resources on topics relating to Music, Art, Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Life Sciences as well as access to the full text and graphics of Scientific American, 1993-present. |
| Bigchalk | Designed specifically for younger researchers with tailored content to more than 60 cover-to-cover magazine and newspaper titles - as well as TV and radio transcripts, books and reference collections, photographs and images, and maps. 100% full text, updated daily. |
| Contemporary Authors & Scribner Writers Series | Series provide biographic and critical essay information on modern novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, and noted scholars. |
| Poem Finder |
Complete coverage of world poetry from antiquity to the present. Includes over 70,000 full text poems and over 750,000 poem citations and excerpts. |
| Searchasaurus | EBSCO's reference search engine for elementary and middle school students. This colorful, graphical interface makes research simple and fun. |
| SIRS Discoverer Deluxe | An interactive reference tool for young readers including: full text articles and graphics, country facts, World Almanac and the World Almanac for kids. |
| ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA Database | Catalog records and locations for materials owned by over 1,500 school, public, academic, and special libraries in Pennsylvania. |
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