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A to Z Food America (World Trade Press)

Providing 7,000 recipes, 650 ingredient articles, vintage food labels and ads, historical “what did they eat” articles, how to make food videos, and more, AtoZ Food America is the world's largest database of American food, culture, and recipes. It features content and information found nowhere else combined with beautiful graphics and illustrations. This resource is mobile friendly, automatically adapting to the screen size of any desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
Features include:
  • 6 US Regions
  • 50 US States
  • 33 Ethnic Cuisines
  • 9,000+ Food Photos
  • 1,700+ Food Quotes
  • 2,500+ Recipes
  • 650+ Ingredient Articles
  • 250+ State Beer Reviews
  • 600+ Food Culture Articles
  • 800+ Food Glossary Terms
  • Personal Recipe Book

A to Z World Food (World Trade Press)

The A to Z World Food resource is the world’s largest and most comprehensive database of food and food culture. This resource is mobile friendly, automatically adapting to the screen size of any desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.
Features include:
  • 174 Countries
  • 9,000+ Food Photos
  • 1,700+ Food Quotes
  • 7,000+ Recipes
  • 650+ Ingredient Articles
  • 750+ World Beer Reviews
  • 1,400+ Food Culture Articles
  • 800+ Food Glossary Terms
  • Personal Recipe Book

Access Business News (NewsBank)

Access Business News is a specialized, web-based resource collection that offers indispensable primary source information at the local, regional, national and even international levels. By providing in-depth news and other content from both small towns and large cities, this resource offers essential breadth and depth of business news coverage, enabling researchers to gain access to various viewpoints, compare business strategies, gauge local and regional impact and much more. In addition to full bibliographic citations, Access Business News also provides several search options, allowing users to perform searches by headline, keyword, location, company name, source and date. All NewsBank resources are mobile-responsive and remotely accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on any device.

Access World News (NewsBank)

This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface. All NewsBank resources are mobile-responsive and remotely accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on any device.
This collection includes access to:
  • America’s News Magazines
  • Express-Times
  • Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
  • Philadelphia Inquirer

America’s News Magazines (NewsBank)

A small, searchable collection of 40+ of the country’s top news magazines. Explore and stay informed on local and national topics, people and events in areas such as business, health, education, jobs and careers, political and social issues and more. Features a wide variety of credible, vetted news sources spanning the U.S. All NewsBank resources are mobile-responsive and remotely accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on any device.

Ancestry Library Edition (Proquest)

Ancestry Library Edition is a popular consumer online genealogy resource. Its online collections include information from North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, and more. Collections include:
  • United States - hundreds of millions of names from sources such as federal and U.S. censuses; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records.
  • Canada - nearly 60 million records from the Census of Canada, and key vital records, such as the Drouin Collection (1621-1967), which includes nearly 30 million baptism, marriage, and burial records from Quebec.
  • United Kingdom- censuses for England, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, and Scotland, with nearly 200 million records: Births and Baptisms (1834-1906), Marriage Licenses (1521-1869), Deaths and Burials (1834-1934), and Poor Law Records (1840-1938) in London, and more.
  • Military - over 150 million records containing information often not found elsewhere and includes records from the colonial to the Vietnam era.
  • Multimedia -millions of files ranging from family and gravestone photos to postcards and newsreels.

Computer Skills Center (EBSCO)

Explore the fundamentals of computers, the internet, and popular software applications with the Computer Skills Center, a user-friendly eLearning platform from EBSCO LearningExpress that contains nearly 100 self-paced video tutorials.
Topics include:
  • Computer and internet basics, including social media
  • Popular Microsoft software applications, including Access, Excel and Office 365
  • Popular Adobe graphics and illustration tools, including Photoshop
  • Windows Operating Systems

Creativebug

Creativebug is the number one inspirational resource for high-quality, on-trend arts and crafts instructional videos for crafters and makers. This resource offers on-demand access to a library of more than 1,000 classes for artists and creatives of all levels. All classes are taught by experts. The Creativebug app is available for iOS and Android.
Class subjects include:
  • drawing & painting
  • sewing & quilting
  • knitting & crocheting
  • cooking & baking
  • jewelry
  • holiday & party

Express-Times Collection (NewsBank - Access World News)

NewsBank provides the ability to search and retrieve full-text articles from area newspapers covering the Lehigh Valley and beyond. Search 20 years of Easton history with The Express-Times Collection from 1998 to the present. Explore current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages and individual articles, as well as content only published online. All NewsBank resources are mobile-responsive and remotely accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on any device.

Fold3 Library Edition (Ancestry & Proquest)

Fold3 Library Edition by Ancestry provides convenient access to US military records, including the stories, photos and documents of the men and women who served. It contains millions of records from world-class archives, many of which are exclusively available on Fold3. This resource is invaluable for historians, genealogists, researchers, military enthusiasts, veterans and their families, teachers and battle reenactors. The Fold3 name comes from a traditional flag folding ceremony in which the third fold is made in honor and remembrance of veterans.
Content is sourced from libraries, archives, and special collections all over the world. Digital images of records preserved in the National Archives represent a growing collection of millions of historic documents now becoming available online for the first time.
Collections include:
  • Black History
  • The Census Collection
  • The Great Depression
  • Holocaust Collection
  • Native American Collection
  • The Vietnam Wall
  • World War 2 Collection
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HeritageHub (Newsbank)

HeritageHub provides access to hundreds of years of obituaries and death notices from thousands of newspapers across the United States from 1824 to today. This one-of-a-kind collection helps patrons and family historians uncover new family members and understand family relationships on a deeper level than ever before.
Features include:
  • Carefully indexed, name-rich obituaries
  • Results that are easy to view and refine
  • Unique, data-rich sources

  Heritage Quest Online (Proquest)

Discover the amazing history of you with HeritageQuest Online. With more than 4.4 billion records, it delivers an essential collection of genealogical and historical sources—with coverage dating back to the 1700s—that can help people find their ancestors and discover a place’s past. Core Collections include:
  • census information
  • books
  • city directories
  • military records
  • wills and probate records
  • Freedman’s Bank index
  • US Serial Set
  • maps & photos

  Historical Newspapers: Pennsylvania Collection (Proquest)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: U.S. State Collections empower researchers to digitally travel back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to local and regional history. From leading issues and events, like the U.S. Civil War, immigration, industrial developments, and race relations; to international, local and regional politics, the U.S. State Collections reveal state and local news coverage valued by researchers. Each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page images in easily downloadable PDF format.
Titles include:
  • The Allentown Critic
  • The Allentown Morning Call
  • The Morning Herald
  • The Evening Penny Press
  • Philadelphia Daily News
  • Pittsburgh Press
  • Public Opinion, Franklin Repository
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  Hoopla (Midwest Tape)

Hoopla is a web and mobile library media streaming platform for audiobooks, comics, ebooks, movies, music, and television to be enjoyed on a computer, tablet, phone, or TV! With no waiting, titles can be streamed immediately, or downloaded to view offline.

*Please Note: Hoopla is only available to EASD residents and limited to 5 titles a month.
 

  LearningExpress Library (EBSCO)

Organized into targeted eLearning centers, the LearningExpress Library supports those looking to improve core academic skills, pass the GED, prepare for college, join the military, obtain occupational certification, find a job, change careers, become a U.S. citizen and much more. These award-winning eLearning tools are designed to help students and professionals achieve their educational and career goals.
Centers include:
  •  Career Preparation
  • High School Equivalency Center
  • College Admissions Test Preparation
  • Grades 4-8 Educator Resources
  • High School Students
  • College Students
  • Adult Core Skills
  • Computer Skills Center
  • Recursos Para Hispanohablantes (Resources for Spanish Speakers)
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  Legal Information Reference Center (EBSCO)

Legal Information Reference Center offers everyday users the necessary tools and detailed how-to instructions covering a wide-range of legal issues. A majority of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation’s oldest and most respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. With the Legal Forms by U.S. State search feature, users can search state-specific legal forms by top subject areas.
Subjects include:
  •  Business law
  • Financial planning
  • Family law
  • Property and real estate
  • Rights and disputes

  Libby (OverDrive)

With Libby, the Library Reading App from Overdrive, you can access hundreds of eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines on your phone, tablet, or computer. You can stream titles with Wi-Fi or mobile data, or download them for offline use and read anytime, anywhere. Have library cards from other libraries? Sign into multiple libraries at once and see all of your loans in one place. 

  MasterFile Premier (EBSCO)

MasterFILE Premier contains full text for general reference magazines and publications covering a wide range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. It also includes an extensive image collection of more than 2 million photos, maps and flags. Content includes over 1,500 full-text magazines and journals and over 55,000 full-text primary source documents.  

  Morning Call (Allentown, PA) Collection (NewsBank - Access World News)

NewsBank provides the ability to search and retrieve full-text articles from area newspapers covering the Lehigh Valley and beyond. Browse or search articles and full issues of The Morning Call dating back to 1984. Explore current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages and individual articles, as well as content only published online. All NewsBank resources are mobile-responsive and remotely accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on any device. 

  My Heritage Library Edition (EBSCO)

MyHeritage Library Edition is one of the largest, most internationally diverse genealogy databases. It includes billions of historical documents from 48 countries, millions of historical photos, public records, indexes and additional resources that span the past five centuries. Remote access and a mobile-friendly interface make it the most convenient genealogy product for libraries and institutions. 

  Newspapers.com Library Edition (Ancestry)

Newspapers.com is the largest online newspaper archive with a powerful viewing tool that lets you explore newspaper pages in detail, clip a page or article to print, and save/share what you find. Search for obituaries, marriage announcements, birth announcements, social pages, local sports action, advertisements, news articles, and more! 

  NoveList Plus (EBSCO)

Looking for your next book? Want to find more from your favorite authors? As a comprehensive readers’ advisory resource, NoveList Plus will answer all your reading questions! With NoveList Plus, you can find read-a-like titles, explore your favorite genres, and fill up your reading list in no time! 

  NoveList Plus K-8 (EBSCO)

Calling all kids and parents! NoveList K-8 Plus is a subset of the database used in NoveList Plus and is a resource all about books specifically for younger readers. It helps readers find books that are just right for specific reading levels and interests while providing suggestions for picture books, chapter books, children's, and younger teen books in both fiction and nonfiction.  

  Philadelphia Inquirer Collection (NewsBank - Access World News)

NewsBank provides the ability to search and retrieve full-text articles from area newspapers covering the Lehigh Valley and beyond. Browse or search articles and full issues of The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1981 to the present. Explore current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages and individual articles, as well as content only published online. All NewsBank resources are mobile-responsive and remotely accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on any device. 

  Power Library eResources

Power Library is Pennsylvania’s online portal of information to find trustworthy answers to questions about healthcare, consumer purchases, personal finances, and much more. Enjoy 24/7 access to newspapers, magazines, journals, historical documents and photos, online databases, and eBooks. Research a subject. learn about your family history, locate a title or explore career options - it’s all here at Power Library. Most of the site is open for browsing, but, to use the online e-resources, you must have a library card issued by a library in Pennsylvania or you can obtain an eCard through the site. 

  Pronunciator

Want to learn a new language? Try Pronunciator, a language-learning service featuring 163 languages with personalized courses, movies, music, and more! Learn how to speak a new language with the help of a variety of interactive techniques to meet the needs of both beginners and advanced learners. It also includes interactive ESL for 144 non-English home languages, citizenship preparation, and COVID-19 language courses. Apps for Android and Apple devices are also available. 

  Weiss Financial Ratings Series Online (Weiss Ratings & Gray House Publishing)

This online resource provides powerful financial literacy tools to protect finances, invest wisely, and grow personal wealth. Check the values and ratings of stocks, mutual funds and exchange traded funds, check ratings of banks, credit unions and insurance companies, and download financial literacy & planning eBook PDF files to keep forever.Seniors can also research Medigap Plans and use the Weiss Ratings Medigap Report to build a customized Medicare Supplement Insurance Planner with step-by-step guidance on how to select a Medigap insurance plan.