CLEARFIELD – Do end of the year school projects have you stuck inside? The Joseph & Elizabeth Shaw Public Library can help you. The library has online resources for you to use from home to power through those projects and to get back to the fun activities of spring.
If you’re having trouble getting started, try the Ask Here PA service. Librarians are on call 24 hours per day and seven days per week to direct you to Web sites and other online resources, help you come up with keywords and search terms and maybe suggest some things you haven’t thought of.
The library’s Web site is chock-full of information. Click on the POWER Library Network icon to access more than 10 electronic resources.
Doing a book report? Check out Contemporary Authors for complete biographical information on more than 130,000 poets, novelists, playwrights, non-fiction writers and journalists. EBSCOhost, OmniFile Mega and OmniFile Select are great for articles from magazines and journals and InfoTrac Newsstand has articles from more than 1,100 newspapers.
SIRS Discoverer is a general reference database for beginning learners and reluctant readers with articles and images from more than 2,100 newspapers, magazines and government documents, along with 9,000-plus educational weblinks. Â SIRS includes Science Fair Explorer to help you find an exciting science fair project topic and quickly connect to age-appropriate project guides. There are also biographies of more than 2,000 famous and notable people, an almanac, maps and an encyclopedia.
AP Images has photographs, audio files, and graphics to add some punch to your project. It includes more than 1 million current and historical photos, with photographs of the latest news as it happens.
POWER Library is an integral part of Information Literacy, a component of the PA Forward initiative sponsored by the Pennsylvania Library Association, promoting the value of libraries in the 21st Century. Libraries help all Pennsylvanians learn how to use online resources and current technology to fully participate in a digital society.
The Shaw Public Library is open Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. and Fridays from 12 p.m. until 5 p.m.
