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Power Library Resources for Students

Educational tool for media specialists, teachers and students, that maximizes the instructional value and pleasure of both diction and nonfiction resources. This unique database contains over 200,000 fiction and nonfiction titles. You will find titles for adults, teens, and children. Included in this database you also find over 400 annotated book lists on high-interest topics, BookTalk for older kids and teens, and Book Discussion Guides that will provide everything you need to ensure lively book club meetings or classroom discussions.
 * NoveList Plus**

Provides access to the complete text of the 34-volume Dictionary of Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Links to images from galleries and museums from around the world are included as well as Learning Resources and timelines from Museum of Modern Art.
 * Oxford Art Online**

Provides access to the complete text of the 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionaries of Opera and Jazz, The Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. Links are available to musical sites on the Internet; some examples use Sibelius (music notation software.) Learning Resources are also available through this database.
 * Oxford Music Online**

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**

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.
 * Biography Reference Bank**

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.
 * SIRSDiscoverer**

A research 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.
 * Oxford Reference Online**

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature The Oxford Companion to American Literature The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature The Oxford Companion to English Literature The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction A Dictionary of Shakespeare The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

A guide to current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Biographies of these authors are included.
 * Contemporary Authors**

Search for full text poems, citations and excerpts using Poem Finder. Poet biographies, a Kids’ Korner, and the Year’s Best Poetry are included. Story Finder provides thousands of full text short stories with explanations, biographies, and more. Use Essay Finder to locate full text essays and discursive writing based on books published in the 20th century. The essays focus on humanities and social sciences and include biographies and literary criticisms.
 * LitFinder**

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 EBSCO's interface designed for students in grades 6 through 12. SRC provides students in secondary schools with the most appropriate research tools to easily obtain the information that they need from their 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.
 * Student Research Center (6-12)**

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


 * Teachers Resources**

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

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)**