ONLINE RESOURCES FROM HOME

   

Elementary Library On-Line Resources at Home

You will need to get the user names and passwords from your librarian to access these databases from home.

To use this resource from home, you must access it through the public library.  To use Access PA at home go to Northland Library's web page

http://www.einetwork.net/cgi-bin/ein/databases.cgi?databases



Click here if you are having trouble accessing the Power Library

Click here to learn how to access the Power Library from home.

  • ACCESS PA

  • Auto Repair Reference Center

  • EBSCO Publishing

  • Fact on File News Services - Facts for Learning

  • Gale Group Contemporary Authors

  • Grove's Dictionaries (Art and Music)

  • HW Wilson - Biography Reference Bank

  • NoveList

  • NoveList K-8

  • Oxford University Press - Oxford Reference Online

  • Roth Publishing - Lit Finder

  • Searchasaurus

  • Sirs Discover

Ask Here PA is a service for Pennsylvania residents and students providing immediate answers to their information needs.

Utilizing live chat, along with the ability to guide users on the Web, librarians throughout Pennsylvania are able to provide patrons with answers to their questions online in real-time. All that patrons need to use the Ask Here PA service is access to the Internet and questions that they want answered.
 

Culturegrams
  
   Learn about  the cultures of 182 countries, including maps, facts, even recipes.  Also has information on all 50 states and  Washington D.C. 
 

Curriculum Resource Center - Junior Edition
  • Maps
  • Flags
  • Timelines
  • Science Diagrams


Enchanted  Learning - over 19,000 educational web pages  designed for elementary school children. Find information and printouts to color about animals, countries, dinosaurs, and states. There are coloring book pages, craft projects, math activities, even an online picture dictionary.
 

 

 

Registered users - click on the icon above.

First time users - click on the link below to enroll and get a unique username and password.

http://auth.grolier.com/login/login-bin/send_signup_form
 

  • Encyclopedia Americana

  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia

  • The New Book of Knowledge

  • The New Book of Popular Science

  • Lands and People

  • America the Beautiful

 

Net Trekker-   Search for thousands of educational websites.  Limit search by content and readability. Search  by keyword, subject and state standard.  Also famous person, timeline, and image searches.

PA Education Hub- dynamic content and educational resources. Find assessment anchors, lesson plans, a media library, and links to PDE resources.

TeachingBooks.net

 

Teaching Books.net - Children's Literature Resources

Provides original, in-studio movies of authors and illustrators and a wealth of multimedia resources on K-12 books that generate enthusiasm for books and reading.

 The two databases are:

Biography  Reference Bank- information on over 500,000 people

Famous First Facts- inventions, discoveries, and first happenings in American history
 

The World Almanac Reference Database

The two databases are:

World Book Online Encyclopedia

 


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