BAHS MEDIA CENTER INFORMATION
Power Library Information
Patron Catalog- (Desktop icon in the library)
You can search books by subject, title, author, and key words. The system will give you
full details about the book and whether or not the book is in. We are in the process of
getting a new system (Atrium) that will be web-based. I will give you information on this as
it progresses.
Google Search- Check out the Advanced Search for ways to narrow your
search results.
WikipediaDO NOT use this as a source for your research. Anyone can create or modify
the entries of this cite. While there might be very reliable information, there is a huge
possibility of getting incorrect information.
Magazines:
As a busy professional you don’t have the time- or the budget- to read all the
magazines that impact your field. Now you can read these publications just by clicking the
PowerLibrary icon on the Media Page. Go to EBSCOhost, choose your database then
continue. (Masterfile Premier is adequate most of the time.) Go to the publication tab and
browse or enter the magazine name that you are looking for. I did a quick search and found math
magazines, administration magazines, science magazines, and for shallow weekend reading there is
even Cosmopolitan. :o) You can browse the current issues, search for specific information or catch
up on the newest trends, strategies or markets. Enjoy!
netTrekker- netTrekker classic is an award-winning academic search engine
that provides fast and easy access to more than 180,000 educator-selected online resources aligned
with YOUR state standards. Spend less time searching for resources and more time teaching and
learning with netTrekker classic! netTrekker d.i., the latest version of netTrekker, the award-winning
search engine for schools, supports differentiated instruction with standards-based online resources,
organized by readability level to help every child achieve. We had a previous session on netTrekker
so you should have a password. There is so much information on here that you can barely get
through it. We can use this site to build your resource page for your project.
Power Library
Hints:
 The list on the left of your result screen NARROWS your results.
 I always choose full text so that I have the entire article provided.
 Great feature- when you use EBSCO articles and you PRINT them, you can select if you want
your article cited in MLA or APA format. It saves a lot of time…I know how we all LOVE citing
articles.
All of the following resources can be accessed from the high school media page.
Interlibrary Loan:
You can use Interlibrary Loan to search and request materials from other libraries (public, academic,
school libraries). Complete the following steps for your search.
1. Access PA Databases
2. Search the Database
3. Click on Centre County first, if no results try surrounding counties or click on State.
4. Select a library type.
5. Enter your search information.
6. Once you find what you are looking for, let me know. I will take care of the rest. The
materials will be sent to you usually within a week or so.
Professional Development Collection- Professional Development
Collection, designed for professional educators, provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550
high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also
contains more than 200 educational reports. This is the most comprehensive and most valuable
collection of full text education journals in the world. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are
provided for more than 700 journals. Examples of titles offered in Professional Development
Collection include: Booklist, Curriculum Administrator, Education, Education Digest, 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 majority of full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or
scanned-in-color. Full text information in the Professional Development Collection dates as far back
as 1965.
Oxford Reference Online PremiumOxford Reference Online is updated at least three times a year with new titles,
new editions, and additional features. In addition, all content in the Collection is
reviewed and updated regularly. This is a wonderful tool to check out. Listed
below are some of the reference materials on the database.
English Dictionaries & Reference
English Dictionaries & Thesauruses
English Language Reference
Bilingual Dictionaries
Quotations
Maps & Illustrations
Timelines
Encyclopedia
Subject Reference
Art & Architecture
Biological Sciences
Classics
Computing
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Economics & Business
Food & Drink
History
Law
Literature
Medicine
Military History
Mythology & Folklore
Names & Places
Performing Arts
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Politics & Social Sciences
Religion & Philosophy
Science
FactsforLearning
This site is great for special education students.
FactsforLearning is designed to help students learn and use
reference skills. It offers separate modules for elementary and middle
schools. The elementary module contains a special section called "Library &
Research Skills." The elementary and middle school modules both contain a
wealth of curriculum, activity, and study material from Weekly Reader
publications.
FactsforLearning brings together content from:
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Weekly Reader 2 through WR News Senior Edition (Student Edition
and Teacher's Guide), Science Spin Primary, and Science Spin Senior
 Weekly Reader secondary classroom magazines, including Current
Events, Current Health and Current Science (Student Edition and
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Teacher's Guide)
The World Almanac for Kids (1999 through the current edition)
The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1998 through the current edition)
The Oxford American Children's Encyclopedia (second edition)
Reference book series from Gareth Stevens and the World Almanac Library
The Library & Research Skills kit
The WordsmythTM Children's Dictionary
Maps from Maps.com
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Funk & Wagnalls Special Reports
Issues & Controversies On File (selected content)
Today's Science On File (selected content)
Facts On File World News Digest (selected content)
Content from all sources is labeled and accessible by grade level. The elementary module offers
grade-specific home pages that deliver content geared to that grade.
For more information about the database and how to use it, please go to Help.
For help in speech-enabling FactsforLearning using Browsealoud, the industry's leading solution for
speech-enabling Web sites, click here.
EBSCOhost General Reference1.
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Choose databases that you would like to search
Enter search field.
Select Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals is also a selection that many of you might want to select (especially
for your grad classes).
ACCUNET/AP Multimedia ArchiveDownload graphics, audio, and text. Downloadable photos from the AP on U.S. News,
International, Sports, Entertainment, and Weather. There is also a Correlations tab which
links the photos to PA Learning Standards by grade and subject area. Download
Speeches, Anthems, Year in Sound, Most Popular, and Sounds of the Century. (It took a
long time to download the audio- but photos are quick.) It includes MLA citations. Very Cool!! The
User Guide is very helpful.
Student Research CenterStudents can use this user-friendly search engine from EBSCOhost to find current, relevant
information. This is for more than just the English and Social Studies!!
ADDITIONAL POWER LIBRARY SUBJECTS
ART/MUSIC
EBSCO- Grove Art Online- Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text
of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion
to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). We offer ongoing additions of new and
updated articles, over 3,000 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the
text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.
In fulfilling their mission to offer comprehensive, reliable information on all aspects of
world art, they are pleased to have the following esteemed scholars, experts, and art
librarians guide the editorial and functional enhancements to Grove Art Online.
EBSCO-Grove Music Online- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second
edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrell, was published simultaneously in
print and online as Grove Music Online in January 2001. Grove Music Online began
to develop independently immediately; regular revisions and additions to the content
began in Spring of 2001 and continue today through an ambitious editorial program.
In addition to the regular program of revisions and new articles, Grove Music Online
has grown to include The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (published in print in 1992
and online in 1999) and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition (2001).
Through a partnership with Sibelius notation software, over 500 of Grove's musical
examples are now available in sound as well as notated examples. Grove Music Online continues to
grow with both newly commissioned material and more articles from other Grove dictionaries. News
about recent updates is included in What's New.
HISTORY REFERENCE CENTER
This is an EBSCO database that contains a timeline of historical events and reading levels that will help narrow
your search. You can choose History Reference Center from the list of database selections when you click on
EBSCO or you can go straight there from the General Reference screen. World History and U.S. History
categories include times such as: Early Civilizations (4000 BCE- 1000 BCE) and The Cold War and Societal
Change (1945-2000).
BUSINESS
EBSCO- Business Source PremierBusiness Source Premier,is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text
for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business
publications. Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier is superior to the
competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS,
POM, accounting, finance and economics.
Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals
including Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Administrative Science
Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Industrial & Labor
Relations Review, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of
Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of Marketing, Journal of International Marketing, etc.
The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports
from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the
world's 10,000 largest companies. Business Source Premier provides full text (PDF) for more than
350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922, including Academy of Management
Journal is available back to 1958, Accounting Review to 1926, Administrative Science Quarterly to
1956, California Management Review to 1958, Industrial & Labor Relations Review to 1947, Journal
of Accounting Research to 1963, Journal of Finance to 1946, Journal of Marketing to 1936, Journal of
Marketing Research (JMR) to 1964, Management Science to 1954, Operations Research to 1956,
etc.
Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country
reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. Business Source Premier contains PDF images for
the great majority of journals; many of these PDF's are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color. This
database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
LITERATURE
NoveList
NoveList provides full title records of fiction for all ages, including picture books, children's "chapter"
books, young adult titles and books for adult readers. Updated monthly, the NoveList database
integrates information from a variety of sources. The title records include full-text reviews from several
journals, including: Booklist, Kirkus, School Library Journal, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. In
addition to these reviews, there are annotations and summaries, and all of them are searchable!
NoveList adds about 9,000 new fiction records to the database per year, along with reviews and
descriptions when they are available. The browsable book lists in Explore Fiction are periodically
revised, and the awards lists in Best Fiction are updated along with the full database each month.
New Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading updates or additions, Annotated Book Lists, Book
Discussion Guides, and BookTalks are also added monthly.
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Click on any of the other tabs to search for books, browse lists or read supporting content.
Perform a Quick Search or click on any of the links listed in the left hand margin (see below).
Read through the featured material discussed on the "Home" tab. This content is updated
monthly.
Search Our Database: links to search the database including Find a Favorite Author, Title or
Series Name, Describe a Plot, Boolean Search and Article and List Search (to search the
customized content about books in NoveList).
Browse Lists: Best Fiction (awards lists), Explore Fiction (genre and topic lists), and All
Authors, Titles, Series Names and Subjects (complete lists used in NoveList).
For Readers: Author Read-alikes, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks (for children and young
adult titles), Annotated Book Lists (previously known as Feature Articles), and What We're
Reading.
Readers' Advisory: NoveList Notes (sign up and archives), RA-101 Lite materials, Working
With Readers workbook, and RA Staff Support (additional articles related to Readers' Advisory
Service).
School Resources: Activities for High School English Classes, Articles with Curricular
Connections, BookTalks (Children's and Young Adult), Book Discussion Guides (Young Adult),
Picture Book Extenders, Author Biographies for Young Adults.
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LitFinder- Browse by Genre, Subject, Contemporary Works,
Poems, Stories, Essays, Plays and Speeches
HEALTH
Please note the following EBSCO sources:
*Clinical Pharmacology
*Facts For Learning
*Health Source Plus: Consumer
*Health Source: Nursing/Academic
*streaMed Patient Portal
CAREERS
Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH), 2006-07 Edition
For hundreds of different types of jobs—such as teacher, lawyer, and nurse—the
Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you:
the training and education needed
earnings
expected job prospects
what workers do on the job
working conditions
In addition, the Handbook gives you job search tips, links to information about the job market in each
State, and more.
Ways to use the Occupational Outlook Handbook site: (1) To find out about a specific occupation
or topic, use the Search box that is on every page—enter your search term in the box. (2) To find out
about many occupations, browse through listings using the Occupations links that are on the right
side of each page. (3) For a listing of all occupations in alphabetical order, go to the A-Z Index and
select a letter.
About the Handbook: The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of
career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about
their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years.
AUTO TECHNOLOGY
EBSCO- Auto Repair Reference Center- Vehicle Information, Auto IQ, Care
and Repair Tips, Troubleshooting, Repair Techniques, Wiring Diagrams
TONS OF INFORMATION!
Remote Access: Power Library, EBSCOhost, Grove Art and Music, Biographies- Use the barcode
number from the back of your public library card.