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Power Library Resources
//**Power Library Resources for Students**// Consumer Health Complete (CHC) is designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. CHC provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles.
 * Consumer Health Complete (CHC)**

Search for information on medicine, food and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Over 200 general health publications and more than 190 journals can be searched, including Consumer Reports on Health and Men’s Health.
 * Health Source Plus: Consumer Edition**

Provides full text articles from general business magazines, trade publications, business journals and business publications with an international scope. Some titles start as far back as 1985 and more than 200 journals have PDF full text materials back to 1965 or first issue published. Over 10,000 company profiles are included. Topics include accounting, management, marketing, economics, finance, international business and more.
 * Business Source Premier**

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.
 * AP Images**

Includes full text articles and images from over 1,600 domestic & international newspapers, magazines and government documents. Articles are assigned a reading level –Easy, Moderate or Challenging- based on age-appropriateness, educational content, and reading level. This database is an excellent student resource. Great resource for ESL and LS students.
 * SIRSDiscoverer**

A database containing full text and abstracts for 1000 popular nonfiction books. Full text articles on literature, social studies, history and science are available and career, health, sports, adventure and technology information is also included.
 * Book Collection: Nonfiction**

Over 25,000 encyclopedia entries are provided.
 * Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia**

Provides information on many subjects including general reference, language and quotations, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, business and professions. Bilingual dictionaries provided in English/French, English/German, English/Spanish, and English/Italian as well as a visual dictionary and timelines.
 * Oxford Reference Online**

A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture A Dictionary of Modern Design The Oxford Companion to the Garden The Oxford Companion to the Photograph A Dictionary of Accounting A Dictionary of Business and Management A Dictionary of Finance and Banking A Dictionary of Human Resource Management A Dictionary of Computing A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units An A-Z of Food and Drink Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition

Collection of over 18,000 professionally selected and cataloged, high-quality websites designed to enhance curriculum support in schools and patron research in public and academic libraries. The DartClix records containing multiple fields are loaded into the Access PA Database where they may be searched, and then link users to the websites.
 * Dartclix**

The Student Research Center (SRC) is designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from the EBSCO databases. Students can easily pre-determine which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film & Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, explore the top searches of the day, and even limit their search according to appropriate reading levels. There is a Career topic search, which can be limited to specific fields of interest.
 * Student Research Center (6-12)**

Electronic books (eBooks) are available through this link. netLibrary eBooks are full text searchable and available in online formats.
 * netLibrary**

Professional Development Collection Designed for professional educators, 550 full text journals are included in the collection.
 * //Teachers Resources//**

This index contains over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics and more.
 * Teacher Reference Center (TRC)**