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Online Resources

Student Resource Center
Student Resource Center is a subscription database that includes full-text articles
from reference books, journals, magazines and newspapers.  You may search in the 
following ways: person search, subject, keyword, classroom topic, or timeline.  Many 
articles contain multimedia files of pictures or sound.  In the library, SRC will open 
automatically; to use it at home you must have a password.  Please see Mrs. Smith for 
the remote access login.  

 

Power Library
The POWER Library is offered as a service of Pennsylvania's public libraries, school libraries and the State Library. The POWER library allows you to access thousands of full text periodical articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, and reference materials. To access POWER Library in the high school library, simply click on the words or icon.  You may also access POWER Library from home. To log-in from home, you can link to POWER Library from the Mount Lebanon Public Library page and enter the number on the back of your library card. 

 
 ABC-CLIO Social Studies Databases
The ABC-CLIO Databases offer extensive information when you are in need of information about World History, American History and Governments.  Follow the log-in instructions on the next screen for access.
 


Literary Reference Online
Based on Facts On File’s extensive print literature collection, Literary Reference Online examines the lives and works of great writers throughout history. Unlike many resources, this database not only contains information on thousands of authors and their major and minor works but also an archive of 35,000 characters, as well as extensive glossary and subject entries featuring historical events and their impact on literature.

The Username and Password for LRO is Lebo.  You may also access it from your home computer.

 

 


The following are descriptions of  available databases within POWER Library. 
You must click on the POWER Library icon above to actually gain access to them. 

 

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
to the archive daily. 
 

 EBSCO Publishing
Book Index with Reviews
Provides information on over 3.8 million
book titles, fiction and non-fiction.  The
database contains over 800,000 full 
text searchable reviews.  

 

 
EBSCO Publishing
Book Source--Nonfiction
Full text and abstracts for
1000 nonfiction books. Full-
text articles on literature,
science, social studies, career
health,sports, adventure and
technology are included.
  EBSCO Publishing
NoveList 
Find a good book to read here!
Includes fiction authors, titles and
themes. Provides suggestions of
books that are similar to those of a
particular author or a certain title.
 
EBSCO Publishing
Funk and Wagnall's
Encyclopedia
25,000 entries are included.
  Gale Group
Contemporary Authors
A guide to current writers of fiction,
nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama,
motion pictures and television.
 
EBSCO Publishing
Health Source Plus 
Search for information on
medicine, food and nutrition,
childcare, sports medicine, and
general health.
  Grove Art Online
Provides access to the complete text of
the 34-volume Dictionary of Art.
Newly-commissioned articles and links
to images from galleries and museums
from around the world are included.
 
EBSCO Publishing
MAS Online Plus 
General interest and current
events magazines are indexed
and abstracted. Full text articles
available from over 300
publications.
  Grove Music Online
Provides access to the complete text of
the 29-volume 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.
 
EBSCO Publishing
MasterFILE Premier
Covering every general interest
area, this database provides
full text articles from reference
books, biographies, maps, flags,
and photos. 
  LitFinder
Search for full text poems, citations and
excerpts using Poem Finder.  Story
Finder provides thousands of full text short
stories with explanations, biographies, and
more.  Use Essay Finder to locate full text
essays published in the 20th century.
 
EBSCO Publishing
Newspaper Source
Full text articles from over 180
regional US and international
newspapers.  Abstracts are
available for national papers.  
  SIRS Discoverer
Includes full text articles and images
from over 1,600 domestic and international
newspapers, magazines and government
documents.
 

 

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