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The Young Adult section includes the latest popular titles and has teen oriented magazines in the same section. College and career information is also available.

Competition books are available for checkout. For more information on the competition go here.

We have study areas with outlets close by and free WiFi.

A great site to find books at is YALSA.

If you have a paper that you need to write with MLA or APA citations then a great place to look up how to cite is Purdue Owl.

Get started on creating your thesis at Kibin.

To find good information you need to find good sites. One such place is CQ Researcher. They provide a variety of topics to look up.

When searching for reliable sources you cannot just search Google. Google Scholar will give you peer reviewed articles and more.

Also if you do not know if a picture is real or not then copy and paste it into Google Images. This way you can see where the picture is from and what type of sites are using it.

If you need help with learning something go to Khan Academy and they can give you a hand.

Go to Education Planner to help you get started on thinking about life after high school.

Visit P.A. Career Zone to assess yourself, explore job families and to learn how to budget.

Here’s a link to various useful websites for high school students.

To find books with AR points go to this site. Find what books are available as quizzes for Reading Counts.

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Find peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals in the areas of the physical and social sciences, technology, medicine, engineering, the arts, literature, and more. Undergraduate researchers can expand and refine search results through the Topic Finder, and citation tools are integrated directly into the user’s workflow.

Academic OneFile offers:

More than 18,000 peer-reviewed journals and more than 9,200 in full text
Full text of The Economist ranging from 1988 to the present, with no embargo
Full text of The New York Times from 1985 to present, updated daily
Full text of The Times and Financial Times
Engaging multimedia with over 5,200 audio files, more than 1.1 million video files, and over 143,000 images
Major reference sets including Gale Encyclopedia of Science and Encyclopedia of World Biography
Full-text articles from periodicals covered in major bibliographic resources such as CINAHL, BIOSIS, MLA, PsycINFO, ERIC, EconLit, RILM, and others
Open URL compliance for access to e-journal and subscription materials, allowing users to save and share URLs
Thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN
Elsevier abstracts from 1996 to present
Document translation into 40 languages

Read-aloud translation into 24 languages

View the greatest events in world history with photographs, audio sound bites, video, and graphics, for over 185 years. Over 3,000 photos/images/sound bites/graphics added daily, including audio and visual snapshots of:

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Search a single catalog reflecting the holdings of over 1,500 Pennsylvania libraries and their combined collections of over 41 million books, audio materials, reference materials, movies, and much more. All types of libraries participate, including:

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Learn how to be a safe, responsible, and smart citizen with these eBooks that teach you how to avoid predators, play games safely online, protect your privacy, and use social networks. The set for ages 3-6 contains these five titles:

Avoiding Predators Online
Playing Games Online
Protecting Your Privacy Online
Stopping Cyberbullying
Using Social Networks

The eBook experience contains a series of fun, engaging “simulations” geared specifically to the topic. Users will create usernames, choose avatars, chat, send messages/email, create profiles, and receive friend invitations all in a safe, controlled environment. Additional eBook features include embedded safety tips, vocabulary terms defined in context, sidebars that further explore important or high-interest material, and credible, vetted resources to find help or get more information.
“Stopping Teen Cyberbullying” is available for teens.

Select from over 16,000 eBooks from the world’s leading publishers across all major subject areas. Perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online. Additionally, you may download selected eBooks to portable devices.

This e-resource provides a single location from which to simultaneously search most of these POWER Library EBSCO e-resources:

Business Source Main Edition
Consumer Health Complete
EBooks on EBSCOhost
Elementary Student Research
GreenFILE
Kids Search
LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
MasterFile Main Edition
Middle School Student Research
Middle Search Main Edition
Newspaper Source Plus Edition
Primary Search Main Edition
Public Library Search
Teacher Reference Center (TRC) – Journal Information for K-12 Teachers & Librarians

The National Library of Medicine created the Environmental Health Student Portal to connect middle school students to environmental health information.

Explore encyclopedias and specialized reference sources on a variety topics from history, government, environment, math, and more! The titles available in the Gale Virtual Reference Library are:

American Eras: Primary Sources. Vol. 1: Development of the Industrial United States, 1878-1899
American Eras: Primary Sources. Vol. 2: Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860-1877
American Eras: Primary Sources. Vol. 3: Westward Expansion, 1800-1860
American Eras: Primary Sources. Vol. 4: Reform Era and Eastern U.S. Development, 1815-1850College
American Eras: Primary Sources. Vol. 5: Development of a Nation, 1783-1815
American Eras: Primary Sources. Vol. 6: The Revolutionary Era, 1754–1783
American Eras: Primary Sources. Vol. 7: The Colonial Era, 1600–1754
American Eras: Primary Sources. Vol. 8: Early American Civilizations and Exploration to 1600
American Governance
Civics
Encyclopedia of Weather and Natural Disasters. 2nd ed.
Ethics, Science, Technology, and Engineering: A Global Resource. 2nd ed.
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
How Everyday Products are Made
Human Geography: People and the Environment
Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
Real-Life Math
Understanding Scientific Principles Through Projects
World Eras

Explore this general-interest periodical resource offering nearly more than 15,000 titles with more than 8,800 in full text. With millions of articles available in PDF and HTML full-text, the collection is also supplemented by reference, newspaper, and audio content, including:

Over 4,400 audio files
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Document translation into 40 languages
Read-aloud translation into 24 languages
Thousands of videos, podcasts, and images from National Public Radio programs from 1990 to present, including searchable transcripts
Over 180 Dorling Kindersley travel guides
Full text of USA Today from 1985 to present
Full text of The Christian Science Monitor from 1996 to present
Full text of AARP The Magazine, the highest-circulating magazine in the U.S.
More than 200 active wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events around the world

Over 4,400 audio files
More than 1.2 million videos
Over 59,000 images
Document translation into 40 languages
Read-aloud translation into 24 languages
Thousands of videos, podcasts, and images from National Public Radio programs from 1990 to present, including searchable transcripts
Over 180 Dorling Kindersley travel guides
Full text of USA Today from 1985 to present
Full text of The Christian Science Monitor from 1996 to present
Full text of AARP The Magazine, the highest-circulating magazine in the U.S.
More than 200 active wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events around the world

Secondary school students will have access to age-appropriate content from magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, and engaging multi-media covering a wide range of subjects, from science, history, and literature to political science, sports, and environmental studies.

Over 2,300 periodicals with more than 2,000 in full-text
More than 59,000 images
Over 1,700 audio files
Over 4,900 videos
Document translation into 40 languages
Read-aloud translation into 24 languages
Visual search tool Topic Finder to connect concepts and guide the research process

Discover literature content from more than 150,000 full-text poems, 840,000 poem citations and excerpts, 7,100 full-text
short stories and novels, 3,800 full-text essays published in the 16th-20th centuries, 2,400 full-text speeches, and 1,250 full-text plays. It also includes biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary. Within LitFinder’s collection, users can access works from over 80,000 authors from 660 nationalities.

Find everything from the sonnets of Shakespeare to the poetry of Maya Angelou, the poetry of the 13th century to contemporary poems by African American women, the inaugural speeches of George Washington through George W. Bush, short stories by Edgar Allan Poe to stories by up-and-coming writer Elizabeth Weld, or essays on such subjects as the arts, science, and religion.

Search many of the Gale e-resources available in POWER Library in one place! Find articles and information from the following e-resources:

Academic OneFile
General OneFile
InfoTrac Newsstand

Discover reliable and trusted information on a variety of topics to support middle school student research for government, U.S and world history, geography, literature, sciences, and social issues. Research In Context offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state standards, and presents material organized into a highly visual and topic portal approach to quickly find answers.

This unique database provides stellar support for papers, projects, and presentations while reinforcing the development of critical thinking and problem solving skills, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation.

Topic Portals: More than 335 topic portal pages to present material in the way most useful for students, and continuously updated
Reference: Contains more than 128 reference titles from Gale, UXL, Lucent, and Primary Source Media for reference articles, topic overviews, critical essays, and plot summaries
Magazines: More than 1,240 full-text periodicals providing more than 2 million articles
News: Over 1.5 million news results from sources such as KidsPost, Cross Currents, USA Today, CNN Wire, and more
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Integration with Google: G Suite for Education and Microsoft Office 365 tools so users can share, save, and download content, including highlights and notes.
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EasyBib or NoodleTools citation tools
MLA, APA, and Chicago-style citations

Perform research from hundreds of full text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other reliable sources. View more than 280,000 high-quality science images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library.