Atrium System
Get a Patron Login from your building librarian to be able to: reserve books, check fines, create a bibliography.
Searching on Atrium:
Combo
To search our catalog using the Combo Search:
Enter the Search Term(s) in the appropriate field(s) and select the Search button. This search can narrow your results by combining Author, Title, and/or Subject searches. Note: If you enter a term in more than one field, the terms are automatically joined by the Boolean operator AND -- thus, narrowing your search. However, you do not have to enter terms in more than one field to receive results.
Expert
To search our catalog using the Expert Search:
Click a Search Type and enter criteria in the corresponding Search Terms(s) field. If necessary, specify additional searches and join them with the appropriate Boolean operators. The following operators are available:
AND
narrows your search, reducing the number of results. All search terms must be met for a record to be returned.
OR
broadens your search, increasing the number of results. Only one of your search terms must be met for a record to be returned.
AND NOT
satisfies an initial Search Term and eliminates another.
You can perform complex searches using the Boolean operators described above to join up to three search terms. This allows you to generate more precise results.
Visual
To search our catalog using the Visual Search:
Simply click an image. If a page with additional images appears, continue selecting pictures until you receive a results list.
Power Library
The POWER Library is offered as a service of Pennsylvania's public libraries, school libraries and the State Library. The POWER library allows you to access 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.
Accessible from the library webpage (outside of network- use barcode on back of library card)
EBSCO- Auto Repair Reference Center:
Vehicle Information, Auto IQ, Care and Repair Tips, Troubleshooting, Repair Techniques, Wiring Diagrams. TONS OF INFORMATION!
AP Images:
For more than a century, AP photographers have captured the greatest moments in history, news, sports and entertainment. AP images is a research tool that allows users to enhance their research and increase their knowledge by accessing the photographs, graphics, audio and full-text news stories that were created by AP staff.
Gale Contemporary Authors:
A database that includes biographic details on approximately 100,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Featured are current writers, the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th Century and authors from around the world whose works have been translated into English or published in the United States.
ProQuest - ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
A source for major trade and industry news. It includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics for more than 1,250 publications, with over 1,140 in full-text. Users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.
Readers’ Guide Select:
100% full-text database containing indexing, abstracting, and full text of 200 of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. Among the topics covered are current events, hobbies, politics, business, sports, recreation, news, cooking, popular music, entertainment, transportation, travel and more.
EBSCO Teacher Reference Center:
This index contains over 280 titles from the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals, periodicals and books. This database provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics and more.
EBSCO Publishing - LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts)
A world-class bibliographic database that provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science.
OmniFile Mega/Select:
Multi-disciplinary full-text database covering Art, Education, Social Science, the Humanities, Business, Science, Current Events, and more. Contains Indexing and Abstracting of 4000 journals, with Full Text from more than 2500 journals. Includes Full Text from 1995 forward, and Indexing from 1982 forward.
EBSCOGreenFILE:
Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.
Consumer Health Complete:
Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.
EBSCO Publishing - Influenza Evidence-based Information:
Designed to inform patients and their families and provide information to clinicians to help them with H1N1 diagnosis and H1N1 treatment by making up-to-date diagnosis and treatment information available.
Science Full Text Select:
100% full-text database covering the sciences. Includes the full text from 360 journals from Wilson's Applied Science, Biological & Agricultural, and General Science databases, as well as science related articles from other Wilson databases.
Info Trac Newsstand:
This full-text newspaper resource allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, author, newspaper section or other fields, eliminating random searching through newspaper archives. InfoTrac Newsstand provides access to more than 1,000 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world.
Biography Reference Bank
Links to biographical articles on over 550,000 individuals. Full text articles, abstracts and photographs are available from periodicals, feature articles, interviews, essays, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.
EBSCO NetLibrary:
NetLibrary provides access to the Access Pennsylvania Database collection of eBooks. eBooks are digital versions of print books -- available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week from any location in the world. NetLibrary ebooks may be found by searching the Access PA eBook Collection directly from the NetLibrary link available at the Power Library website, or by searching the Access Pennsylvania Database. eBooks are easily identified in the results list of a search as [electronic resource]. Links to all Access PA eBooks are available at the bottom of their bibliographic records.
ACCESS PA: Interlibrary Loan:
Catalog holdings of almost 3,000 Pennsylvania school, public, academic and special libraries are included in this database. Search by author, title, subject or keyword to locate over 50 million items.
You can use Interlibrary Loan to search and request materials from other libraries (public, academic, school libraries). Complete the following steps for your search.
Access PA Databases
Search the Database
Click on Centre County first, if no results try surrounding counties or click on State.
Select a library type.
Enter your search information.
Once you find what you are looking for, let your building librarian know. They can take care of the rest. The materials will be sent to you usually within a few weeks.
AskHere PA:
Chat online now with a real librarian -- one - to -one in real-time -- for help with any topic or information need.
Library Video Resources
Atrium
- searching, reserving and setting up book lists
Atomic Learning:
Thinkfinity:
PBS Teacher's Domain : AMAZING resource!
PBS Teachers
PBS Video
"On PBS Video, award-winning national programming and locally produced shows are just a click away. Watch your favorite shows and catch the episodes you may have missed, all on your schedule. Click "Share" to send your favorites to friends and post to social networks, and purchase your own copy by clicking "Own It
Icue: iCue is a fun, innovative learning environment built around video from the NBC News Archives.
Videos, games, and activities correlated to courses in U.S. History, U.S. Government and Politics, and English Language and Composition, and more.
A community of friends and learners engaged in discussion around academics, current events, and important issues.
A collection of Video Cue Cards, with thousands of video clips from the NBC News archives wrapped in a tradable, interactive virtual card.
TOUR:
Discovery Education/United Streaming: Passcode: 3127-62AD
Learn 360
Babelgum: Great video resource
Ease History: Supports the learning and teaching of US History with hundreds of historical videos and photographs
Teacher Tube
Teacher TV
Vimeo- video sharing (like YouTube but you can make them private)
Snagfilms Allows you to watch documentary films for FREE. They are categorized by subject area too (such as sports, health, science, etc.)
World Digital Library: The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
HotChalk: great video library suited for high school students (this has changed to premium service for a lot of the material; however there it is still worth a look)
TVland- classic TV episodes
Hulu- great site to watch your favorite shows! Amazing stock of resources