© Pennsylvania Department of Education What is POWER Library ?

What is the POWER Library? P ennsylvania O nline W orld of E lectronic R esources

Complete List of Resources The POWER Library Brochure provides a brief description of all the databases available through the POWER Library Interface

Access POWER Library From your school computers or remotely from your Public library using your public library card.

What will you find in POWER Library?

Bilingual Dictionaries

Timelines Approximately 50 interactive timelines are available. Clicking on an entry in any timeline will link you to information in one of the reference books about that item.

Quotations

Visual English Dictionary 6,000 color illustrations from 800 subjects across 14 themes The illustrations are a perfect way to explore topics, such as geography, science, and medicine that are typically difficult to explain in words.

Color Searching Searching can be done based on dominant colors within a photograph. There are 10 hues that are represented in the photos archive To perform a color search, type the color followed by a colon and then the word hue BlueRed YellowGreen OrangeWhite BlackBrown PurplePink

Color Searching Results

Topical Guides

Musical Example The Sibelius Scorch player plug in is needed to listen and display these files.

Weekly Reader Magazines

Spanish Content Weekly Reader Almanac For Kids is available in both English and Spanish

Teacher Created Materials

Reading Levels Articles are assigned a reading level according to the Flesch Reading Ease scale. Limit searches to include articles of a single reading level or in any combination. Easy (grades 1-4) General (all grades) Moderate (grades 5-7) Challenging (grades 8+)

Activities Activities provide a shortcut to all full-text articles that include activities. Activities are marked with a label in the article results list to make it easy to identify

Business Reports Company Profiles Industry Profiles Country Reports Market Research Reports

Language Options (Interface)

Language Options (Text) Articles can be translated into: French German Spanish Portuguese Italian Korean Japanese Russian Arabic Dutch

Text to speech enhancements When available, there will be a Listen indicator at the top of an article. You can also download the audio into mp3 format for later use.

Scavenger Hunt