What is Power Library?
How do I access Power Library?
What is on Power Library?
How do I use the Power Library Resources?
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What is Power Library?
Power Library: Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources
The POWER Library allows you to access thousands of full-text magazine and journal articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, and reference materials.
The POWER Library is a service of Pennsylvania's public libraries, school libraries and the State Library. Using any Internet connected computer, you can access Power Library with your library card number.
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How do I access Power Library?
All you need is Internet connection and your library card to access the free Power Library resources at any time from anywhere.
To access Power Library from the Lebanon County Library System web site:
1. Select the Power Library tab at the top of the page
2. Select your local library
3. Enter your library card number and click "submit."
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What is on Power Library?
Numerous free electronic resources for all ages are available on Power Library.
 Associated Press - AP Images
More than 500,000 current and historical photographs and graphics can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs are added to the archive daily.
Commonwealth Libraries - Access Pennsylvania Database
Catalog holdings of almost 3,000 Pennsylvania school, public, academic and special libraries are included in this database. Search by author, title, subject or keyword to locate over 50 million items.
 Auto Repair Reference Center
Supplied by Point 5 Technologies with complete automotive repair information supplied by Nichols Publishing, publisher of Chilton© information. Most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles are listed. Repair information is available for most manufacturers as far back as 1954.
Consumer Health Complete
Available soon. Searchable health resources including reports, encyclopedias, fact sheets, images and diagrams, drug and herb information, and more
GreenFILE
Offers information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Influenza Evidence-based Information
Designed to inform patients and their families and provide information to clinicians to help them with H1N1 diagnosis and H1N1 treatment by making up-to-date diagnosis and treatment information available.
 NoveList
Includes fiction authors, titles and themes. Provides suggestions of books that are similar to those of a particular author or a certain title. Expand your reading horizons with Novelist. Librarians can use this database as a readers' advisory service to assist patrons who enjoy fiction. Teachers can use this resource for enhancement of curriculum.
NoveList K-8
Information about more than 38,000 fiction titles of interest to students in grades K-8. Full text reviews from professional journals and book talks for selected titles are available in this database. A good resource to expand student reading interest by introducing new authors or additional books in a subject area.
Contemporary Authors
A guide to current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Biographies of these authors are included.
 InfoTrac Newsstand
This full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields, eliminating random searching through newspaper archives. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world.
Biography Reference Bank
Links to biographical articles on over 470,000 individuals. Full text articles, abstracts and photographs are available from periodicals, feature articles, interviews, essays, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.
OmniFile Mega
Multi-disciplinary full-text database covering Art, Education, Social Science, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events, and more. Contains Indexing and Abstracting of 4000 journals, with Full Text from more than 2500 journals. Includes Full Text from 1995 forward, and Indexing from 1982 forward.
OmniFile Select
100% full-text multi-disciplinary database Art, Education, Social Science, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events, and more.
Readers' Guide Select
100% full-text database containing indexing, abstracting, and full text of 200 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. Among the topics covered are current events, hobbies, politics, business, sports, recreation, news, cooking, popular music, entertainment, transportation, travel and more.
Science Full Text Select
100% full-text database covering the sciences. Includes the full text from 360 journals from Wilson's Applied Science, Biological & Agricultural, and General Science databases, as well as science related articles from other Wilson databases.
netLibrary
Electronic books (eBooks) are available through this link. netLibrary eBooks are full text searchable and available for use on personal computers in online formats.
ProQuest - ABI/INFORM
Available soon.
 SIRS Discoverer
This database includes full text articles and images from over 1,600 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, and government documents. Articles are assigned a reading level - Easy, Moderate, or Challenging - based on age-appropriateness, educational content, interest, and reading level. This database is an excellent student resource.
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How do I use the resources on Power Library?
Learn all the essentials needed to use POWER Library quickly and easily with the POWER Library tutorials and demos. Just spend a few minutes to learn how and you can start using POWER Library today! Tutorials are from 3 to 5 minutes in length. Click here to access the tutorials.
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Browser Compatibility Issues?
POWER Library supports Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher or Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and higher. Ensure that your browser is set to accept Power Library cookies and is set to allow Java and Javascript. Click here for browser troubleshooting.
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