Online Catalog and Resources
LCDS ONLINE CATALOG : A collection of nearly 28,000 titles.
THE POWER LIBRARY is offered as a service of Pennsylvania's public libraries, school libraries and the State Library. The service allows readers to access thousands of full-text periodical articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, reference materials for young people and more. Materials of interest in most subject areas for all age groups from young children to adults can be easily found. Accessible databases cover subject areas such as Art/Music, Auto Repair, Biography, Business, Children's Resources, Education, Find A Book, General Reference, Health/Science, Literature, Newspapers and Magazines. The POWER Library is available on the LCDS network during school hours. Some of the databases can be accessed from your home by linking to your local public library found below. Use the barcode number on the back of a valid public library card as your Password.
Subscription Databases
To access from outside LCDS, see a Librarian for a remote user name and/or password.
CULTUREGRAMS: CultureGrams provides facts on the culture of 190 countries and territories including a recipe collection, photo gallery and information of famous peoples from that area. Included in this database is information on all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Here you will be able to create your own table comparing and contrasting information from all over the world.
GALE STUDENT RESOURCE CENTER: 1980 - Present
A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 450 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips.
GROLIER ONLINE is one of a variety of reference databases published by Grolier. Our subscription offers students access to the following: Encyclopedia Americana , Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, Nueva enciclopedia Cumbre en linea, The New Book of Popular Science , as well as American Heritage dictionaries and the Grolier Online Atlas . To access this website from home, click on GROLIER REMOTE SIGN UP. Follow their directions to set up a remote account.
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: SEP, 2005
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS delivers the complete run of The New York Times. It offers an unparalleled online resource for the study of historical events, social and consumer history, economics, literature, technology, and more. Every issue is reproduced in cover-to-cover full-page image from news stories and editorials to graphics and advertisements. Our title coverage spans from 1851 to 2001.
SIRS RESEARCHER provides thousands of full-text articles on a variety of social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues.
TEACHINGBOOKS: One easy-to-use website, TeachingBooks makes instantly available original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, study guides to thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature.
WORLD CONFLICTS TODAY: World Conflicts Today provides in-depth information on the conflicts of the world. Included are Northern Ireland, Columbia, Iraq and many more. Here one will learn the history of the country and why there is unrest.
