Adult Resources
- Gale Udemy: Free with your library card! With this online learning platform, users can explore more than 4,000 continuously updated, on-demand video courses across 75 categories in business, technology, design, and more to learn anytime, anywhere. All courses are taught by world-class instructors and, best of all, you can feel good knowing that the content is fresh. Courses are updated or replaced monthly with new material on emerging topics, so learners develop skills in the most relevant, in-demand areas. Purchased by Seneca District.
- PA Online Learning: PA Online Learning, provided by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries for all Pennsylvanians, is a FREE growing collection of tutorials on how to use software, social media, and library resources, such as POWER Library!
- Gale Presents – Peterson’s Test & Career Prep: Prepare for standardized tests with eBooks, online courses, and full-length practice tests for GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, U.S. citizenship, and more in Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep. Research undergraduate and graduate programs, find tuition assistance, and explore and prepare for careers whether you’re entering the workforce for the first time or searching for new opportunities. A variety of interactive methods prompt personalized career recommendations and insight on programs, knowledge, skills, and ability. Search for jobs and create visually interesting resumes, cover letters, and websites that can be externally shared with prospective employers, using prebuilt templates. Purchased by Seneca District.
- AtoZ Maps Online: The world’s largest database of royalty-free, downloadable maps for academic and business (non-commercial) use. Purchased by Seneca District Libraries.
- AtoZ the USA: Offers detailed information on the state bird, mammal, tree, reptile, mineral, flower, stone, song, insect, gemstone, fossil, and fish for 50 states plus five territories and the District of Columbia. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- Global Road Warrior: World-class e-content database offering country by country information on 175 nations and territories. Topics for each country include society and culture, travel essentials, business culture, communications, and more. Global Road Warrior also promotes cross-cultural understanding through comparative studies. Business people engaged in international trade, students researching country reports, or patrons planning international travel will all find what they need within this site. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- AtoZ World Travel: A comprehensive travel guide providing practical information for experiencing the world and all its wonders, for travelers and students alike. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- AtoZ Food America: Explore food culture and traditional recipes from around the country! It’s a moveable feast in a digital cookbook. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- AtoZ World Food: The world’s largest database of global food culture & recipes. With thousands of international recipes, hundreds of fascinating culture and ingredient articles, and essential culinary resources, AtoZ World Food brings international cuisines to you, from Albanian byrek to Zimbabwean matemba! Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- Lingo Lite: An image and video-based foreign language learning tool for 260 of the most basic words and terms in 30 languages. Extremely helpful for travelers and beginning language learners. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- POWER Library: Pennsylvania’s electronic resources are provided for free to all Pennsylvania residents. There is something for everyone, this is an extensive list of resources. To gain access you will need our POWER Library code PL3819 + your library barcode number.
- Gale Resources: All of the Gale databases and resources that are offered in one place! Resources for business, careers, education, health, history, hobbies, humanities, kids, law, literature, magazines, newspapers & science. Provided by POWERLibrary and Seneca District Libraries.
- Seneca District Libraries’ Overdrive Collection: Free with your library card! OverDrive provides access to popular and bestselling eBooks and eAudiobooks; this collection now also provides access to a large collection of popular digital magazines. The collection includes Kindle Books and thousands of titles for adults, teens, and children. Titles are automatically returned at the end of the loan period, and there are no late fees. Purchased by Seneca District.
- Project Gutenberg – offers over 60,000 free eBooks. You will find the world’s great literature here, with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired, mostly published before 1924.
- Education Planner: One-stop career and college planning website. Education Planner provides practical and easy-to-understand advice to help prepare students for the important decisions they will face in the future. EducationPlanner is a public service of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) and its student loan servicing operations, FedLoan Servicing and American Education Services (AES).
- Northern Pennsylvania Regional College does not operate as a traditional campus-based college, nor are we an online college. To keep our classes affordable and convenient for students, community locations are utilized to deliver class instruction at multiple sites across the region and are brought together via live interactive technology. NPRC offers dual enrollment, associate degree, and workforce development courses.
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Whether you are preparing for college, attending school, or already repaying your student loans, CFPB has tools and resources to help you make the best decisions for you.
- Tuition Funding Sources is a private non-commercial website designed to help students find scholarships and college and career information. TFS offers students the largest scholarship database in the world with over $41 Billion in scholarship awards along with a career personality test and detailed college and career information for you.
- The Community Education Center offers professional, academic, and personal opportunities for lifelong learning in Elk and Cameron Counties and the surrounding areas. We do this by coordinating with institutions of higher education and business/industry associations to bring relevant degree programs, non-credit training, workshops, and academic advisement to your community.
Teen & Young Adult Resources
- Gale Udemy: Free with your library card! With this online learning platform, users can explore more than 4,000 continuously updated, on-demand video courses across 75 categories in business, technology, design, and more to learn anytime, anywhere. All courses are taught by world-class instructors and, best of all, you can feel good knowing that the content is fresh. Courses are updated or replaced monthly with new material on emerging topics, so learners develop skills in the most relevant, in-demand areas. Purchased by Seneca District.
- Gale Presents – Peterson’s Test & Career Prep: Prepare for standardized tests with eBooks, online courses, and full-length practice tests for GED, SAT, ACT, AP, PSAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, TOEFL, U.S. citizenship, and more in Gale Presents: Peterson’s Test and Career Prep. Research undergraduate and graduate programs, find tuition assistance, and explore and prepare for careers whether you’re entering the workforce for the first time or searching for new opportunities. A variety of interactive methods prompt personalized career recommendations and insight on programs, knowledge, skills, and ability. Search for jobs and create visually interesting resumes, cover letters, and websites that can be externally shared with prospective employers, using prebuilt templates. Purchased by Seneca District.
- AtoZ Maps Online: The world’s largest database of royalty-free, downloadable maps for academic and business (non-commercial) use. Purchased by Seneca District Libraries.
- AtoZ the USA: Offers detailed information on the state bird, mammal, tree, reptile, mineral, flower, stone, song, insect, gemstone, fossil, and fish for 50 states plus five territories and the District of Columbia. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- Global Road Warrior: World-class e-content database offering country by country information on 175 nations and territories. Topics for each country include society and culture, travel essentials, business culture, communications, and more. Global Road Warrior also promotes cross-cultural understanding through comparative studies. Business people engaged in international trade, students researching country reports, or patrons planning international travel will all find what they need within this site. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- AtoZ World Travel: A comprehensive travel guide providing practical information for experiencing the world and all its wonders, for travelers and students alike. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- AtoZ Food America: Explore food culture and traditional recipes from around the country! It’s a moveable feast in a digital cookbook. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- AtoZ World Food: The world’s largest database of global food culture & recipes. With thousands of international recipes, hundreds of fascinating culture and ingredient articles, and essential culinary resources, AtoZ World Food brings international cuisines to you, from Albanian byrek to Zimbabwean matemba! Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- Lingo Lite: An image and video-based foreign language learning tool for 260 of the most basic words and terms in 30 languages. Extremely helpful for travelers and beginning language learners. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- Power Teens: This is a unique link just for Teens & Young Adults for POWERLibrary’s research tools and databases.
- Gale Resources: All of the Gale databases and resources that are offered in one place! Resources for business, careers, education, health, history, hobbies, humanities, kids, law, literature, magazines, newspapers & science. Provided by POWERLibrary and Seneca District Libraries.
- Open eBooks: Open eBooks is an app containing thousands of popular and award-winning titles that are free for middle school and high school children from in-need households. These eBooks can be read without checkouts or holds. Children from in-need families can access these eBooks, which include some of the most popular works of the present and past, using the Open eBooks app and read as many as they like without incurring any costs. Provided by the Wilcox Public Library and First Book. Please contact us to enroll.
- Seneca District Libraries’ Overdrive Collection: Free with your library card! OverDrive provides access to popular and bestselling eBooks and eAudiobooks; this collection now also provides access to a large collection of popular digital magazines. The collection includes Kindle Books and thousands of titles for adults, teens, and children. Titles are automatically returned at the end of the loan period, and there are no late fees. Purchased by Seneca District.
- Project Gutenberg – offers over 60,000 free eBooks. You will find the world’s great literature here, with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired, mostly published before 1924.
- Education Planner: One-stop career and college planning website. Education Planner provides practical and easy-to-understand advice to help prepare students for the important decisions they will face in the future. EducationPlanner is a public service of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) and its student loan servicing operations, FedLoan Servicing and American Education Services (AES).
- Northern Pennsylvania Regional College does not operate as a traditional campus-based college, nor are we an online college. To keep our classes affordable and convenient for students, community locations are utilized to deliver class instruction at multiple sites across the region and are brought together via live interactive technology. NPRC offers dual enrollment, associate degree, and workforce development courses.
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Whether you are preparing for college, attending school, or already repaying your student loans, CFPB has tools and resources to help you make the best decisions for you.
- Tuition Funding Sources is a private non-commercial website designed to help students find scholarships and college and career information. TFS offers students the largest scholarship database in the world with over $41 Billion in scholarship awards along with a career personality test and detailed college and career information for you.
- The Community Education Center offers professional, academic, and personal opportunities for lifelong learning in Elk and Cameron Counties and the surrounding areas. We do this by coordinating with institutions of higher education and business/industry associations to bring relevant degree programs, non-credit training, workshops, and academic advisement to your community.
Children's Resources
- Seneca District Libraries’ Overdrive Collection: Free with your library card! OverDrive provides access to popular and bestselling eBooks and eAudiobooks; this collection now also provides access to a large collection of popular digital magazines. The collection includes Kindle Books and thousands of titles for adults, teens, and children. Titles are automatically returned at the end of the loan period, and there are no late fees. Purchased by Seneca District.
- Gale eBooks: Formerly GVRL, this specialized reference, and informational eBooks include medical and mental health, self-help, finances, cookbooks, diet and exercise, business and marketing information, and much more. These materials, previously only available in the library, are now online from the library or remotely 24/7, and allow multiple users to access any of the books at any time – no checkouts or holds required. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). Titles are purchased and managed by both Seneca District Libraries and POWERLibrary.
- BookFlix: Watch videos and read books about Animals and Nature, Earth and Sky, People and Places, ABCs and 1, 2, 3s, Family and Community, Music and Rhyme, Adventure, and more. Enjoy reading aloud with words highlighting and interactive games. Some films and books are available in Spanish too! A POWERLibrary Resource.
- TrueFlix: Learn about people, places, nature, history, and science from videos and eBooks on topics such as American Indians, Ancient Civilizations, Farm to Table, The Civil War, Continents, The Thirteen Colonies, U.S. Government, Disasters, Earth Science, Experiments, Extreme Science, Nature, and many more. A POWERLibrary Resource.
- AtoZ Maps Online: The world’s largest database of royalty-free, downloadable maps for academic and business (non-commercial) use. Purchased by Seneca District Libraries.
- AtoZ the USA: Offers detailed information on the state bird, mammal, tree, reptile, mineral, flower, stone, song, insect, gemstone, fossil, and fish for 50 states plus five territories and the District of Columbia. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- Global Road Warrior: World-class e-content database offering country-by-country information on 175 nations and territories. Topics for each country include society and culture, travel essentials, business culture, communications, and more. Global Road Warrior also promotes cross-cultural understanding through comparative studies. Business people engaged in international trade, students researching country reports, or patrons planning international travel will all find what they need within this site. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- AtoZ World Travel: A comprehensive travel guide providing practical information for experiencing the world and all its wonders, for travelers and students alike. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- AtoZ Food America: Explore food culture and traditional recipes from around the country! It’s a moveable feast in a digital cookbook. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- AtoZ World Food: The world’s largest database of global food culture & recipes. With thousands of international recipes, hundreds of fascinating culture and ingredient articles, and essential culinary resources, AtoZ World Food brings international cuisines to you, from Albanian byrek to Zimbabwean matemba! Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- Lingo Lite: An image and video-based foreign language learning tool for 260 of the most basic words and terms in 30 languages. Extremely helpful for travelers and beginning language learners. Purchased by the Seneca District Libraries.
- Gale in Context – Elementary: Students in kindergarten through grade five will find age-appropriate content covering topics such as animals, arts, geography, health, literature, people, social studies, technology, etc. The content is continuously updated and provides interesting and important facts with connections to current and past events. There are over 1,700 kid-friendly charts, graphs, and much more. A POWERLibrary Resource.
- Power Kids: This is a unique link just for kids…includes an easier way to search the POWERLibrary resources for children.
- Red Apple Reading: Online educational reading software for children Pre-K to 3rd Grade, struggling readers, early readers, and English learners. Teaches phonics, phonemic awareness, sight words, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension. Students will watch videos, play games, and learn at their own pace with over 100 hours of game-based learning. Provided by the Wilcox Public Library and First Book. Please contact us to enroll your student.
- Open eBooks: Open eBooks is an app containing thousands of popular and award-winning titles that are free for children from in-need households. These eBooks can be read without checkouts or holds. Children from in-need families can access these eBooks, which include some of the most popular works of the present and past, using the Open eBooks app and read as many as they like without incurring any costs. Provided by the Wilcox Public Library and First Book. Please contact us to enroll your child.
- Learning at Home – with Pennsylvania PBS – your connection to thousands of hours of educational and entertaining videos, activities, and games to support you and your child while learning at home.
- Community of Learning – CILC and its content providers have joined together to provide live, interactive programs. Programs are held Monday – Friday at 1:00 PM EST. Register for your preferred session(s), connect through CISCO WebEx, and get ready to enjoy quality programming from within your classroom or the comfort of your own home! Programs are FREE with registration.
Government & Local
- GovInfo – provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
- USA.gov – your online guide to government information and services.
- IRS.gov – Internal Revenue Service information, forms & publications.
- PA.gov – your online guide to Commonwealth of Pennsylvania government information and services.
- Department of Revenue – Pennsylvania’s Department of Revenue Site, find information, forms, publications & file taxes.
- Elk County, Pennsylvania – public information on government, environment, local announcements, and more.
- Jones Township – local government information for Jones Township, Elk County, Pennsylvania.