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Art/Music

Grove Art Online - Provides access to the complete text of the Dictionary of Art. Newly-commissioned articles and links to images from galleries and museums from around the world are included.(Library Card Needed)

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Grove Music Online - Provides access to the complete text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the New Grove Dictionaries of Opera and Jazz. Links are available to musical sites on the Internet. (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)

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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)
Access PA Digital Repository - this collection of digital images from the PA State Library, along with numerous college, university and public libraries across Pennsylvania, contains a wealth of information on many topics including famous Pennsylvanians, PA history, genealogy, and much more.
Book Index with Reviews - information on over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats. Fiction and non-fiction titles are included in all genres. Contains over 800,000 full text searchable reviews from Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, CHOICE, and others (Library Card Needed)
BookSource: Nonfiction- full text and abstracts for 1000 popular nonfiction books. Full text articles on literature, social studies, history and science, career, health, sports, adventure and technology information.
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)
Downloadable Audio Books (netlibrary)
LitFinder - 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. (Library Card Needed)

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netLibrary - Electronic books are available, full text searchable and available for in online formats. (Library Card Needed)

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NextReads - A readers' advisory newsletter service providing monthly and bimonthly lists, including both fiction and nonfiction genre coverage.(Library Card Needed)
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)
NoveList Plus - With information on more than 200,000 fiction and nonfiction titles, NoveList Plus has something for everyone. Feature Articles, Author Read-Alike, Book Discussion Guides, Booktalks, Recommended Read, What We're Reading

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Business

American City Business Journals - network of approximately 40 weekly regional business journals from major metropolitan areas.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners - Single state technology development program that provides flexible financing and investment opportunities for technology-oriented businesses. Provides university-based support to new and existing businesses in hi-tech industries.
Biz Stats.com - Leading online source for small business statistics, including useful financial ratios and benchmarks.
Bloomberg Financial Services - One-stop daily financial information including current news, stock quotes, IPOs,treasuries, currencies, commodities, mutual funds, etc
Bplans.com - Guidelines for writing a business plan. View free business, marketing, web strategy and advertising plans.
Business 2.0 - Reports on the smartest, most innovative business practices for doing business in the Internet and technology age.
Business2Business - Monthly local business publication with separate editions for Lancaster, Harrisburg Metro, Berks and Chester counties. Coverage includes sales, information technology, marketing, management, economics and finance. Cover piece focuses on one critical industry or issue each month. In-depth articles on profiles of businesses, business leaders and management issues.
Business Books in your mailbox - Not enough time to read all of the latest business books? Click the link above to sign up for the Business Book Club and a 5 minute selection of a business book will be delivered to your mailbox each weekday.
Business Marketing Association - provides information for business to business marketers and communicators
Business Owners Toolkit - Comprehensive checklist of steps to take to start a business. The table of contents expands to display section headings and document titles. Click on document titles for in-depth information.
Business Searching Interface - Created especially for the business searcher. BSI provides an easy way to both browse and search for country economic data, company profiles, industry information and market research. (Library Card Needed)
Business Source Premier- 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 materials back to 1965. Over 10,000 company profiles are included. (Library Card Needed)

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Business Week Small Business Online - Columns of interest to small businesses and entrepreneurs, including a small business guide and small business tools.
BusinessWoman - publication designed for women entrepreneurs, business owners, executives and other professionals in the South Central Pennsylvania region. Each issue includes articles on management, finance, career planning, sales strategies, health and more.
Central Penn Business Journal - Weekly regional business journal covering Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties. In-depth coverage in the "Inside Business Focus On" section each week. Two lists of top ranking companies in different categories appear each week and are compiled into an annual "Book of Lists". Free registration for daily news alert.
Currency Converter - multilingual currency converter for over 164 currencies and three metals
Dun & Bradstreet Small Business Solutions - provides access to credit reports for companies, credit management informaiton, debt collection and customer lists. There are no costs involved to search this website, however, there are fees for purchasing the reports and lists themselves. There are various subscription packages, all at minimal costs, that a small business can take advantage of. Comprehensive charts of D&B's fees and pricing structures accompany each of the services.
Entrepreneur - online version of Entrepreneur magazine, which targets the small business audience
Entreworld - provides original articles, written by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, and aggregates “the best of the best” content on the Web related to starting and running high-impact companies.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation - encourages and promotes entrepreneurship, at all levels of success, across America and offers grants to entrepreneurs.
Family Business Center at Elizabethtown College - provides family businesses with the opportunity to address and resolve their succession, management, ownership and strategic issues, through seminars and networking.
HACC Business Start-up Center - Provides entrepreneurial training and individual counseling for start up and early stage businesses. One-on-one assistance in all aspects of running a business and preparation of a business plan.
IRS Small Business Web Site - one-stop resource for IRS info for small business and self-employed individuals
Lebanon County Planning Department
Kutztown University Small Business Development Center - Serving Lebanon and the surrounding area
PA Department of Labor and Industry Workforce Information - Pennsylvania's designated provider of employment statistics.
PA Department of Community and Economic Development - NewPA.com provides information, resources and funding sources for businesses and more
Pennsylvania Department of Revenue - Information and forms for business taxpayers
PA Small Business Development Centers - assists Pennsylvania entrepreneurs and small businesses to start, grow and prosper through consulting, education and business information
Pennsylvania Open for Business - complete online resource for entrepreneurs doing business in Pennsylvania. Register your business online, access forms necessary to start a business, name your business and explore financial options. Resources include downloadable handbooks on many aspects of starting a business.
Pennsylvania State Data Center - provides access to census data that includes population, housing, agriculture, manufacturing, retail and wholesale trade, governments, etc
Pennsylvania Women’s Business Center - This division of Community First Fund is designed to provide training, consultation, loan capital and advocacy support for new and existing business owners.
Regional Business News - Coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires (Library Card Needed)
Small Business Administration - definitive source of government information for small business. Guidelines and how-to's for starting and financing a small business, FAQs, local office contacts, regulations, headline news, and disaster assistance are some of the many topics covered on this site.
Standard and Poors.com
Team Pennsylvania Foundation Business Resource Network - public/private partnership the initiates and supports innovative programs to improve Pennsylvania's competitiveness and prosperity
US Business Advisor - One-stop access to federal government information and services and transactions
US Department of Commerce ê Economic Development Administration - created to to generate jobs, help retain existing jobs, and stimulate industrial and commercial growth in economically distressed areas of the United States. EDA assistance is available to rural and urban areas of the Nation experiencing high unemployment, low income, or other severe economic distress.
Value Line.com

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Careers

Career Link - Comprehensive information for job seekers and employers.
Learning Express - standardized test help for GED, Civil Service, ASVAB. Real estate and more (Library Card Needed)
Monster.com - Save Your Search; Have matching jobs emailed to you as they’re posted.
South Central Career Information System - designed to assist Employers, Labor, Schools, Community Agencies and persons seeking to make career decisions. The South Central region includes Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, and York counties. The SCCIS is also designed to meet the information needs of the region including Team Pennsylvania, the South Central Business Quality Partnership, the South Central One Stop Shop, the South Central School To Work Challenge Partnership and the region's STW local partnerships.

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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.
Citation Maker –Fill in an online form to create MLA citations for a variety of sources
EBSCO Animals- in-depth information including the nature and habitat of familiar animals. This database is designed for children’s interest in the world of animals. (Libarary Card Needed)
Facts For Learning - teaches younger students how to ask questions, use core reference resources, understand indexes, choose research topics, search online, and read charts and graphs. (Library Card Needed)

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Kids Search (K-5) - designed for students in grades K through 5. Provides an easy-to-use, graphically-appealing interface and facilitates searching by topic, enabling users to easily enter keywords, or select topics or subtopics to search, from the Basic Search screen (Library Card Needed)

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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)
Primary Search - for elementary school researchers, full text information from more than 60 magazines (Library Card Needed)
Searchasaurus - includes an encyclopedia, an encyclopedia of animals, magazine searches, a dictionary, photos, maps and flags. (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)

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Learning Express - math, reading comprehension, vocabulary and spelling (Library Card Needed)

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Consumer Information

Census Data - from the Penn State Data Center
Consumer Reports - provides ratings, buying guides, product reviews and consumer information
In the publication box, type Consumer Reports to limit your search. (Library Card Needed)
Contact the Credit Bureaus - There are three major credit bureaus :TransUnionExperian, and Equifax  - all of which maintain your credit report
Do Not Call Lists - National and Pennsylvania
Federal Consumer Information Center - answers to your questions about the Federal government and common consumer issues.
Greater Lebanon Refuse Authority - recycling and refuse information for Lebanon County
Identity Theft Correction Checklist - What to do if you believe someone has stolen your identity. Contact the Credit Bureaus
Identity Theft Prevention Checklist - How to safeguard your identity
Locating Community-Based Services to Support Children and Families: Knowledge Pathfinder - designed by the Material and Child Health Library at Georgetown University to help service providers and families find available national, state, and local resources that can address child and family needs.
Medicare - The Official U.S. Government Site for Medicare Information
Mortgageloan.com/calculator - over 100 free personal finance and mortgage calculators
Mortgageloan.com/finance-glossary - free personal finance glossary with over 700 financial terms and definitions
Pennsylvania Attorney General - for information on identity theft, online predators, elder abuse, consumer complaints and more
Pennsylvania Insurance Department - Office of the Insurance Liason
Penn State Data Center - Pennsylvania's offical source for demographic and economic data

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Educators

Dartclix – Collection of over 18,000 professionally selected and cataloged, high-quality websites designed to enhance curriculum support in schools and patron research. (Library Card Needed)
Edsitement - provides links to twenty online humanities learning guides as well as links to outside humanities Web sites
ERIC - full text of 2,200 digests in addition to citations and abstracts from over 980 education or education-related journals. (Library Card Needed)
The Horn Book: Resources for Educators - articles for teachers and an updated array of booklists for classroom use and home sharing.
Learning Express – PRAXIS practice tests, along with practice tests for students in reading, math, vocabulary and spelling (Library Card Needed)
Locating Community-Based Services to Support Children and Families: Knowledge Pathfinder - designed by the Material and Child Health Library at Georgetown University to help service providers and families find available national, state, and local resources that can address child and family needs.
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

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)
Professional Development Collection - Designed for professional educators, 550 journals included (Library Card Needed)
Read Write Think - Providing educators and students access to quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction
Teacher Reference Center - over 260 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books. 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. (Library Card Needed)
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 info from these and many more sources: U.S. Federal Census 1790-1930, U.K. Census Collection 1861-1901, U.S. Immigration Collection, Vital Records & Social Security Death Index, Military Collection, Major genealogy books, Over 700 historic and modern maps, Ancestral chart & research logs
Cyndi's List - Genealogy Links
Family Search.org - the largest collection of FREE family records and geneaology records in the world.
Family Search Labs - tools from FamilySearch.org that are under development but still available for use
Ellis Island Records
Geneaological Resources at the Pennsylvania State Archives
Genealogy at the US National Archives and Records Administration
Harrisburg Newspaper Index - index of personal names in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania newspaper announcements of marriages and deaths published from 1799 to 1827.
Lebanon County Historical Society
National Archives & Records Administration Microfilm Rental Program
National Library of Medicine Geneologal Research in the History of Medicine - The Library's History of Medicine Division holds numerous genealogical and biographical resources, in addition to its historical materials, including The American Medical Association (AMA) Deceased Physicians Master Card file, Medical School Bulletins and Catalogs, and Archival and Manuscript Collections
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
North Londonderry Township
Palmyra Borough
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
Project Vote Smart - A nonpartisan voter information site with background info, voting records and more for national, state and local candidates.
South Londonderry Township

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

American Medical Association
Bad Bug Book - Foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins handbook from the USDA
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Health Topics A-Z, Travelers' Health, Data, Statistics & more
Children and Adolescents with Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health Challenges: Knowledge Pathfinder - compiled by the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Library at Georgetown University, offers a selection of current, high-quality resources about children and adolescents with emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges. Resources tap into the health, education, social services, and juvenile justice literature.
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)
Cold Food Storage Safety Chart - from foodsafety.gov
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)
DailyMed - provides high quality information about marketed drugs from the National Library of Medicine
Dietary Supplements Labels Database - offers information about ingredients in more than two thousand selected brands of dietary supplements. It enables users to determine what ingredients are in specific brands and to compare ingredients in different brands. Information is also provided on the health benefits claimed by manufacturers.
Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
Free Medical Journals on the Web - Free Access to more than 1,300 medical journals
Have a health question? Ask the Hershey Medical Center Consumer Health Librarian
Healthfinder - Guide to reliable health information sponsored by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic - articles from nearly 600 medical journals are provided. Abstracts and indexing is available from nearly 850 medical journals. (Library Card Needed)
Health Source Plus: Consumer - 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. (Library Card Needed)

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Lab Tests Online - a unique, free product designed to provide patients and caregivers with quality, current, readable information on clinical lab tests from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.
Maternal and Child Health Library from Georgetown University
Medicare - The Official U.S. Government Site for Medicare Information
Medline Plus - Offers high quality health information chosen by trained professionals. Created for consumers by the National Library of Medicine.
NIH News In Health - monthly health newsletter from the National Institutes of Health
NIH Senior Health - Health information for Seniors developed by the National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine, both part of the National Institutes of Health.
National Library of Medicine - information and research in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
QuitAssist Online - a free resource that provides access to smoking cessasion information from public health authorities and others.

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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)

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ExplorePAhistory.com - includes three entry points: “Stories from PA History,” “Visit PA Regions,” and “Teach PA History.” “Stories from PA History” includes histories built around state historical markers. “Teach PA History” includes elementary, middle, and high school lesson plans for teachers of Pennsylvania and American history. “Visit PA Regions” provides useful information for those who are interested in visiting historic sites associated with ExplorePAhistory stories including sample itineraries and directions to local points of interest, hotels, restaurants, and more.
Food Timeline - food history research
History Reference Center - history reference database that features full text for more than 750 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books, nearly 60 leading history periodicals, 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 12,000 historical photos and maps and 87 hours of historical film and video (Library Card Needed)

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Lebanon County Historical Society
Oxford Reference Online - Provides information on many subjects including general reference, language and quotations, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, business and professions. (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

ERIC - full text of 2,200 digests in addition to citations and abstracts from over 980 education or education-related journals. (Library Card Needed)
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)
Professional Development Collection

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Libraries Online

American Library Association
Associated College Libraries of Central PA
Bishop Library at LVC
Dauphin County Library System
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
Maternal and Child Health Library from Georgetown University
National Archives
Pennsylvania Citizens for Better Libraries
Pennsylvania Library Association
State Library of PA

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Local

Cambelltown Fire Company #2
Capital Area Transit Authority (CAT) - Bus routes and info for Dauphin and Cumberland Counties, and the City of Harrisburg
Citizens Fire Company #1, Palmyra
County of Lebanon Transit Authority (COLT) - Bus routes and info for Lebanon County
Friends of Palmyra Area Recreation & Parks Commission
Lawn Fire Company #3
Lebanon County Historical Society and Stoy Museum
Lebanon County Tourist Bureau
Literacy Council of Lancaster-Lebanon
Palmrya Area Business Association (PABA)
Palmyra Area Recreation & Parks Commission
Palmyra Area School District
Palmyra Community Pool
Palmyra Garden Club
Palmyra Sportsmen's Club
Phoenix Youth Center
United Way of Lebanon County

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Magazines

Business Source Premier- 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 materials back to 1965. Over 10,000 company profiles are included. (Library Card Needed)

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EBSCOhost - Click on this link to access all the EBSCO host databases (Library Card Needed)
History Reference Center - history reference database that features full text for more than 750 historical encyclopedias and other non-fiction books, nearly 60 leading history periodicals, 58,000 historical documents, 43,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 12,000 historical photos and maps and 87 hours of historical film and video (Library Card Needed)

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MAS Online Plus - provides full text from more than 550 popular general interest and current events publications covering general reference, health, science, and other areas. (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)

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News Outlets

AP Multimedia Archive - More than 500,000 current and historical photographs and graphics can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs are added daily (Library Card Needed)

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Harrisburg Newspaper Index - index of personal names in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania newspaper announcements of marriages and deaths published from 1799 to 1827.
Lebanon Daily News
Merchandiser
EBSCO Newspaper Source - full text articles from over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources. (Library Card Needed)
New York Times
Patriot News
USA Today

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Parents and Families

Adoption: Where Do I Start - adoption information from the Childre Welfare Information Gateway
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
Locating Community-Based Services to Support Children and Families: Knowledge Pathfinder - designed by the Material and Child Health Library at Georgetown University to help service providers and families find available national, state, and local resources that can address child and family needs.
Material and Child Health Library from Georgetown University

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Reference
>>NEW! World Book Online

Acronym Database - Internet Acronym Server database
AP Multimedia Archive - provides access to photographs, graphics and audio clips from The Associated Press. Also included in the new interface is the AP Images Calendar. This Calendar visually displays events each month from celebrity birthdays to key dates in history. (Library Card Needed)
Bartleby.com - Reference collection including biographies, definitions, quotations and poems
Biography.com - online biography site from A&E Television
Biography-center.com - over 10,000 biographies
Dartclix – Collection of over 18,000 professionally selected and cataloged, high-quality websites designed to enhance curriculum support in schools and patron research. (Library Card Needed)
Encarta Encyclopedia - over 4,500 articles from MSN Learning
Encyclopedia.com - free encyclopedia, providing more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps
Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia - Over 25,000 encyclopedia entries are provided
Oxford Reference Online - 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 (Library Card Needed)

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MasterFILE Premier - Reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and a collection of photos, maps and flags are included. (Library Card Needed)
World Book Online Reference CenterWorld Book Online includes all of the articles from the 22-volume print set, plus more than 9,500 pictures and maps, 115 videos and animations, 9,300 sounds, and more than 100 simulated historic Web sites.You can also access World Book Kids, which includes the online version of World Book's award-winning Student Discovery Encyclopedia, dozens of hands-on learning activities correlated to curriculum standards, and thousands of colorful illustrations, diagrams, and maps. (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)

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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
Penn State Data Center - Pennsylvania's offical source for demographic and economic data
World Fact Book - from the Central Intelligence Agency, provides information about countries around the world and is updated periodically throughout the year
YourDictionary.com - a free version of the Webster's New World College Dictionary along with links to over 2,500 dictionaries, language courses and grammars, and other glossaries
Zip Code Lookup - from the US Postal Service

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Science

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.
EBSCO Animals- in-depth information including the nature and habitat of familiar animals. This database is designed for children’s interest in the world of animals. (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
Online Periodic Table of Elements - provides a clickable table of elements with each element's specific data linked to the table
Oxford Reference Online - Provides information on many subjects including general reference, language and quotations, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, business and professions (Library Card Needed)