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myerstown community library
ONLINE RESOURCES |
Art/Music
Art History Resources on the Web: comprehensive index of art resources on the Internet compiled by Christopher L.C.E. Witcomb, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College.
Metropolitan Museum of Art: provides a rich timeline of art history and thematic essay categories.
The National Gallery of Art Classroom for Teachers and Students: a place where teachers and students can connect art and curriculum
Omni File 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. (Library Card Needed)
Omni File Select: 100% full-text multi-disciplinary database covering Art, Education, Social Science, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events, and more. (Library Card Needed)
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Automotive
| Auto Repair Reference Center - Complete automotive repair information supplied by Nichols Publishing, publisher of Chilton©. Most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles are listed. Repair information is available for most manufacturers as far back as 1954. (Library Card Needed) |
Tutorial – learn to use this database quickly and easily
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| Fuel Economy.gov – information on gas mileage, alternative fuel vehicles, and safety information for new and used cars and trucks. Includes a gas mileage calculator. |
| Office of Defects Investigation - allows you to see consumer complaints, recalls, and safety bulletins |
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Books and Reading
| Access PA Database - Catalog holdings of almost 3,000 Pennsylvania school, public, academic and special libraries are included. Search by author, title, subject or keyword to locate over 50 million items. (Library Card Needed) |
| Contemporary Authors - A guide to current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television. Biographies of these authors are included (Library Card Needed) |
| netLibrary - Read electronic books. (Library Card Needed) |
Tutorial – Learn to use this database quickly and easily
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| NoveList - Includes fiction authors, titles and themes. Provides suggestions of books that are similar to those of a particular author or a certain title. Teachers can use this resource for enhancement of curriculum. (Library Card Needed) |
Tutorial – Learn to use this website quickly and easily
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Business
Omni File 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. (Library Card Needed)
Omni File Select: 100% full-text multi-disciplinary database covering Art, Education, Social Science, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events, and more. (Library Card Needed)
Wall Street Journal
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Careers
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Children
| Ask Jeeves for Kids - fast, easy and kid-friendly way for kids to search online. |
| Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids- Guide for students in grades K-12 to the United States Government as a service of the Government Printing Office. Resources are aimed at teaching how government works and also locator services for various government sites. |
| FactMonster - this site features an almanac, atlas, dictionary and encyclopedia made especially for kids, as well as handy search engine and layout designed for easy fact-finding. |
| Citation Maker –Fill in an online form to create MLA citations for a variety of sources |
| NoveList K-8 - 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. (Library Card Needed) |
| SIRS Discoverer – Includes articles and images from over 1,600 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. (Library Card Needed) |
Tutorial – Learn to use this database quickly and easily
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Consumer Information
Educators
| Edsitement - provides links to twenty online humanities learning guides as well as links to outside humanities Web sites |
| The Horn Book: Resources for Educators - articles for teachers and an updated array of booklists for classroom use and home sharing. |
| National Geographic Expeditions - a large selection of maps, virtual expedition and museum, forums, and lesson plans |
| NoveList - Includes fiction authors, titles and themes. Provides suggestions of books that are similar to those of a particular author or a certain title. Teachers can use this resource for enhancement of curriculum. (Library Card Needed) |
Tutorial – Learn to use this website quickly and easily
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| NoveList K-8 - 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. (Library Card Needed) |
| Read Write Think - Providing educators and students access to quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction |
| Thinkfinity - contains more than 55,000 authoritative educational and literacy resources for teachers, including standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and web sites. |
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Genealogy
Ancestry.com – (only available from within your library) - family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy
Harrisburg Newspaper Index - index of personal names in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania newspaper announcements of marriages and deaths published from 1799 to 1827.
Pennsylvania Genealogy Collection -- Digitized materials from newspapers and other sources of interest to family researchers
Pennsylvania Necrology Scrapbook - Microfilmed scrapbooks of obituaries clipped from Pennsylvania newspapers from 16 October 1891 to 3 March 1904. Many Civil War veterans included.
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Government Resources
Lebanon County
Lebanon County League of Women Voters
Lebanon County Township Maps
Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania's main homepage for state government.
Pennsylvania House of Representatives - includes online welcome center and visitor's guide.
Pennsylvania State Senate – Home page of the Pennsylvania State Senate
Social Security Social Security Online. The official website of the U.S. Social Security Administration.
USA.Gov – Official U.S. government search engine for all federal government information
VotesPA – Department of State's online voter information center
The White House – official website of the White House
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Health and Medicine
| Clinical Pharmacology- Provides information for all U.S. prescription drugs, herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. (Library Card Needed) |
| Consumer Health Complete -provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical information. Consumers can search and browse within medical encyclopedias, popular reference books, and magazine articles. (Library Card Needed) |
| National Library of Medicine - information and research in all areas of biomedicine and health care. |
| wired.MD - streaMed Patient Portal (only available from within your library) - Comprehensive video, handout, animation, and website database for consumer health information. Includes 365 multimedia videos, 1,385 associated text handouts, and numerous anatomical animations and peer-reviewed health websites. Includes consumer health and patient education videos that present important information regarding the most common health conditions, diagnoses, procedures, and treatments in video format (Library Card Needed) |
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History
| Ben Franklin – Digitized Collection – includes digitized materials by and about Ben Franklin from the collection of the State Library of Pennsylvania |
| 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. (Library Card Needed) |
Tutorial – Learn to use this database quickly and easily
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| Food Timeline - food history research |
Lebanon County Historical Society
Omni File 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. (Library Card Needed)
Omni File Select: 100% full-text multi-disciplinary database covering Art, Education, Social Science, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events, and more. (Library Card Needed) |
| Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission - research collections in a variety of formats: cataloged objects and documents, digital images of same, databases of historic and cultural resources, and written histories |
| Pennsylvania Capital Centennial Collection - Historic descriptions, explanations, and illustrated visitors' guidebooks to the State Capitol Complex in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Pennsylvania Capitol Building. |
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Journals and Professional Resources
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts - provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. It indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings. (Library Card Needed) |
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Libraries Online
American Library Association
Bishop Library at LVC
Hershey Public Library
George T. Harrell Library at the Hershey Medical Center
Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress
Lois High Berstler Community Health Library the Hershey Medical Center
National Archives
Pennsylvania Citizens for Better Libraries
Pennsylvania Library Association
State Library of PA
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Local
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Magazines
| SIRS Discoverer – Includes articles and images from over 1,600 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. (Library Card Needed) |
Reference
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| Librarian’s Internet Index – Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries |
| RefDesk.com - One-stop Internet reference directory. Use RefDesk to search through thousands of online sources. |
| SIRS Discoverer – Includes articles and images from over 1,600 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. (Library Card Needed) |
Tutorial – Learn to use this database quickly and easily
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Newspapers
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Science and Environment
| The Accidental Scientist: The Science of Cooking - Explore recipes, activities, and Webcasts that will enhance your understanding of the science behind food and cooking |
| Chemical Elements.com – an interactive Periodic Table of the Elements |
| Common Trees of PA - selection of 57 native, and 5 introduced trees organized according to leaf shape and arrangement. Each tree is identified by popular name familiar to Pennsylvanians and complete scientific name. |
| 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.(Library Card Needed) |
| How Stuff Works - explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP, using clear language and tons of illustrations |
| Science Fair Center- A laboratory of ideas |
| Science Fair Project Resource Guide - a useful resource for those trying to participate in or run a science fair. |
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Seniors
Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging - serves clients age 60 and over who are residents of Lebanon County.
AARP: Pennsylvania – information on aging, health, money and travel for those over 50.
Senior Centers - Providing Pennsylvania’s seniors with opportunities to exchange information and ideas on topics of vital interest
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Students |
| Top 10 Web Sites for Students - an excellent Homework Help resource list compiled by Microsoft at Home. The list includes and links to "some of the most comprehensive and reliable educational web sites" for students. |
| Ask Jeeves for Kids - fast, easy and kid-friendly way for kids to search online. |
| Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids- Guide for students in grades K-12 to the United States Government as a service of the Government Printing Office. Resources are aimed at teaching how government works and also locator services for various government sites. |
| Citation Maker –Fill in an online form to create MLA citations for a variety of sources |
| Citing sources – Fill in an online form to create MLA or APA citations for a variety of sources. |
| Cliffs Notes – FREE homework help from Cliffs Notes -- free online literature study guides |
| FactMonster - this site features an almanac, atlas, dictionary and encyclopedia made especially for kids, as well as handy search engine and layout designed for easy fact-finding. |
| NoveList K-8 - 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.(Library Card Needed) |
| NovelGuide - free source for literary analysis on the web providing study guides as an educational supplement. Whether you call them book summaries, literature guides or novel guides, this site's material will guide you to a better understanding of classic and contemporary works. |
| Science Fair Project Resource Guide - a useful resource for those trying to participate in or run a science fair. |
| SIRS Discoverer – Includes articles and images from over 1,600 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. (Library Card Needed) |
Tutorial – Learn to use this database quickly and easily |
Thinkfinity - Contains more than 55,000 authoritative educational and literacy resources for students of all ages. An amazing resource by the Verizon Foundation.
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Taxes (Federal, State and Local)
Federal Tax Forms – Internal Revenue Service
Lebanon County Earned Income Tax Form - If you haven't yet received a barcoded tax form in the mail, you can download tax forms and instructions from the
Keystone Municipal Collections website
Pennsylvania Tax Forms
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Technology
GCF Global Learning - free, beginning computer courses and other learning opportunities
In Pictures – computer tutorials on office and weblayout based on pictures.
Lebanon Libraries Job Services - online portal for job seekers includes links to technology tutorials and library materials
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Teens
| Citing sources – Fill in an online form to create MLA or APA citations for a variety of sources. |
| Cliff Notes – literature study guides with summaries, character analyses, essay suggestions and important quotes. |
| NoveList K-8 - 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. (Library Card Needed) |
| PA Driver’s Manual |
| Science Fair Center- A laboratory of ideas |
| Science Fair Project Resource Guide - a useful resource for those trying to participate in or run a science fair. |
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