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:
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:
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.
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:
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 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.
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
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:
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 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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
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)
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:
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 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.
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.
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 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!
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
