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Pennsylvania's Power Library |
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Power Library Direct
(to research from GA)
These resources are available through public libraries and participating school libraries (GA is a member), and from home. The computers at GA are configured to go directly to the search interface without entering a password.
To utilize these databases from home you must have a current library card from a Pennsylvania public library. Select your local library or county library interface from the list at right. To access the resources you will need to enter the 14-digit barcode number which appears on your valid library card. Easy-to-use instructions are on the library pages linked from column at right.
Power Library is provided by the State of Pennsylvania, offering access to an amazing array of resources grouped together in one convenient interface. You now have access to magazine and newspaper articles, critical commentary, peer-reviewed articles, images, multimedia and primary source documents simply by logging in. There is a remarkable breadth and depth of developmentally appropriate materials available to meet the information needs of everyone from Lower School students to adult learners. It would cost over $20,000 for GA to purchase these resources if they were not available through the state. We encourage our students to take advantage of this opportunity.
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Power Library Resource Descrption |
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The italicized annotations below are quoted from the publisher's web site
If you are at a school computer, you would then click on the at GA link to go directly to the resource. If you are at home you must use your public library's interface in the right hand column.
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Electric Library Elementary(at GA) |
This easy to use general reference database is especially tailored to young readers.
Students use the colorful, graphical search interface to find the answers they need from more than 100 magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, images, web links, and audio/video titles-all selected as appropriate for elementary school studies.
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Searchasaurus (at GA)
An easy-to-use search interface for elementary and middle school students
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Students can search for full text articles, images, primary sources, maps, flags in a broad collection of magazines, books, encyclopedias and dictionaries. A great way to learn searching.
The database includes carefully selected 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 level of readability. Additional database content includes: a multi-volume 26,000-article encyclopedia, The World Almanac? for Kids 2003, Biographies of U.S. Presidents, Photo Essays, Activities, Country Facts and a dictionary. Current Events, Maps of the World, Spotlight of the Month, a thesaurus and more...
The AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is an electronic library containing The AP's current year's photo reports and a selection of photos from their 50 million image print and negative library. The Multimedia Archive also incudes graphics, text and audio - all from The Associated Press
 Ebsco (at GA)
Comprehensive periodical & reference databases:
- EBSCOhost Web
...is a powerful online reference system. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, corporate, academic, medical and school libraries.
Includes
- Business Source Elite
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Ebsco Animals
- ERIC
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- MAS Online Plus
- Masterfile Premier
- Middle Search Plus
- Newspaper Source
- Professional Development Collection
- Primary Search (for elementary school)
- Regional Business News
- EBSCOhost Espanol
The same as above in Spanish
- Novelist
Besides locating books to read, users can learn more about books and authors through Author Read-alikes, Feature Articles, Book Discussion Guides, and BookTalks. These features have been developed specifically with NoveList users in mind, offering support for librarians, teachers, and individual readers.
- Novelist K-8
This version of the award-winning fiction service is designed specifically to meet the needs of all members of the K-8 environment: students, media specialists and teachers. NoveList K-8 can be used to find the perfect book for each reader by using a readability measure (Lexile). Describe a Plot, Topic or Theme lets you find fiction titles for any instructional unit.
 The Gale Group (at GA)
- Contemporary Authors
Provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
- Scribner Writers Series
Scribner Writer's Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres drawn from 13 acclaimed Scribner print series
- Student Resource Center - Bronze 1980 - Present
A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 450 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online
The world's premier authority on all aspects of music
- The Grove Dictionary of Art Online
The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day.
- Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
The largest single reference source ever published in the life sciences, ELS will contain more than 3,000 original articles written by 5,000 of the worlds leading scientists.
- Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Presenting a wealth of scholarship, research, discovery, and theory, the Encyclopedia offers 2,750 original articles commissioned from over 800 experts in the fields of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
- Scientific American Archive
Offers convenient web access to the complete text and graphics of every issue of Scientific American from 1993 to the present.
 Poem Finder (at GA)
Poem Finder is the largest, most comprehensive and most current poetry database available. It is international in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present. It is a one-stop resource for locating over 4 1/2 million lines of poetry.
Elementary students - Click the start button and then select "Kids Corner"
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