POWER Library
Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources

The POWER Library is offered as a service of Pennsylvania's public and school libraries. The POWER Library allows you FREE access to thousands of full text periodical articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, reference materials for young people and more. You will find materials of interest in most subject areas for all age groups from young children to adults.

The POWER Library can be accessed from any of our Web pages by clicking on the POWER Library link at the top of every page. To use POWER Library you must have a library card and your browser must be set to accept "cookies". If you experience problems accessing the databases, please check the browser requirements.


At the log-in screen (shown at right) enter our library's ID number PL3227 and the four-digit code from your individual library card. Don't leave any spaces.

Please contact us at the Willis T. Lewis Memorial Library if you have any questions.
Phone: 814-848-7226




Read about the POWER Library below:

EBSCO HOST - a comprehensive periodicals and reference database including: MasterFILE Premiere, Business Source Elite, Health Source Plus, Newspaper Source, and ERIC.

NoveList -is a readers' advisory service database that lists over 100,000 titles, contains 75,000 full text reviews, and includes over 36,000 subject headings, offering a wide range of resources that serves readers of fiction. The product's "Find a Favorite Author" or "Find A Favorite Title" feature permits users to locate lists of books in their favorite fiction areas. NoveList is linked to the ACCESS PA Database so that library users can check to see which libraries own a copy of a book described in NoveList, and linked from the ACCESS PA Database to descriptions and reviews in NoveList.

Grove's Dictionaries - resources on topics relating to Music, Art, Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Life Sciences as well as access to the full text and graphics of Scientific American from 1993 to the present.

Bigchalk - designed specifically for younger researchers with tailored content to more than 60 cover-to-cover magazine and newspaper titles - as well as TV and radio transcripts, books and reference collections, photographs and images, and maps. 100% full text and updated daily.

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - archive of more than 500,000 current and historical photographs that can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs added daily.

Gale Group - the Contemporary Authors & Scribner Writers Series provide biographic and critical essay information on modern novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, and noted scholars.

Professional Development Collection - is a comprehensive collection of more than 500 full text education journals including: Booklist, Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Educational Leadership High School Journal, Journal of Education, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Learning Disabilities, Phi Delta Kappan, Reading Teacher, School Library Journal and many others. The Professional Development Collection is especially useful to the Commonwealth's education professionals, including teachers, administrators and librarians.

Searchasaurus - Ebsco's colorful and graphical interface for elementary and middle school students makes research simple and fun. These full text databases are searchable by keyword or by simply clicking on a subject of interest.

SIRS Discover - an interactive reference tool for young readers including: full text articles and graphics, country facts, and World Almanac.

Poem Finder - complete coverage of world poetry from antiquity to the present. Inlcudes over 70,000 full text poems and over 750,000 poem citations and excerpts.

ACCESS PA - a web based bibliographic union catalog and resource sharing guide to Pennsylvania library collections. Over 2,000 school, public, academic, and special libraries are searchable online.

POWER Library Information Center - POWER Library.net web site offers new announcements and events concerning the POWER Library, a map to find a local public library offering access from home, an area to submit comments, and much more!