Patrons of the Clarion Free Library can have home access to the Access PA Power Library which includes:EBSCO Host:A comprehensive periodicals and reference database including MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Elite, Health Source Plus, Newspaper Source, Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, and ERIC.
EBSCO Searchasaurus:EBSCO's newest user search engine for elementary and middle school students. These full text databases are searchable by keyword or by simply clicking on a subject of interest. Search results are clearly displayed, allowing children to easily select articles of interest.
SIRS Discover Deluxe:An interactive reference tool for young readers. It includes full text articles and graphics, accounting facts, and a world almanac.
AP Photos:An archive of 500,000 current and historical photographs that can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs added daily.
Encyclopedia Americana Online:Over 45,000 articles, plus bibliographies, tables, maps and continuously updated links to related sites.
Access Pennsylvania Database:Catalog records and locations for materials owned by over 1,500 school, public, academic and special libraries in Pennsylania.
Grove Dictionaries: Comprehensive resources on topics relating to music, art, astronomy, astrophysics, and life sciences as well as access to the full text and graphics of Scientific American, 1993 to present.
Bigchalk :Designed specifically for younger researchers, e-Library Elementary contains more than 60 cover-to-cover magazine and newspaper titles - as well as TV and radio transcripts, books and reference collections, photographs and images, and maps. 100% full text, updated daily.
Poem Finder: Complete coverage of world poetry from antiquity to the present. Includes over 70,000 full text poems and over 750,000 poem citations and excerpts.
Gale Group:Contemporary Authors & Scribner Writers Series provide biographic and critical essay information on modern novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, and noted scholars.
Searchasaurus:Contemporary Authors & Scribner Writers Series provide biographic and critical essay information on modern novelists, poets, playwrights, journalists, and noted scholars.
To
use the Power Library, you will need a current library card with a barcode number.
Contest Rules
The judging panel will select the winning entries on the basis of creativity, originality and imagination. One winner will be selected from each grade level. Certificates will be awarded to all who enter and a ceremony will be held to honor the winners.
The winning books will be professionally bound and added to the circulating
collection of the Children's room of the Clarion Free Library.
Spotlight on reading ~ be a star@ your library!
Book Buddies
Teen Mentors Read to Young Children
Tuesdays 1:30-2:30
June 11-August 6
Read To Me/Family Time
For Ages 2-8
Wednesdays 10:00-11:30
June 12-August 7
Summer Reading Club
For Ages 9-12
Thursdays 1:30-2:30
June 13-August 8
Cyber Camp
For Ages 8-13
Thursdays 10:00-11:00
June 13-August 8
The library holds one special program or party a month. Check the Clarion Free Library's Children's Room for details or e-mail Miss Jean.
Free Internet access when you sign in. No chat rooms please. The library staff will assist you if you need any help searching for something time permitting. Please read the library's Internet Policy for more information.
In a sense all history is local. It is set in a certain place, involves certain people and certain issues. In this sense, then, there is an usefulness to studying what is nearby, what has happened where we live, to understand what little scenes of history have played out in the everyday lives who preceded us, to recognize in the familiar what may be unknown.
Whether one is researching the history of a community, a family, or an individual, the collection of materials in the Local History Room at the Clarion Free Library will enable one to study history at its most primary level.
The genealogy and local history collections at the Clarion Free Library are located in the Local History Room on the Main Floor. The collections do no circulate, and are intended to serve family and local historical research needs of patrons. The collection is intended to provide new and experienced family researchers with a well-rounded body of research resources.
The focus of the collection is on Pennsylvania genealogy, with particular emphasis on Clarion County families, the migration pathways of past and current Clarion County residents into and out of the county, “how-to” materials, resource guides, and general resources, in addition to topics such as passenger lists and immigrant resources.
The Local History Collection is intended to preserve and make available materials of past, present, and future historical interest. The focus is on Clarion County and the immediately adjacent counties of Armstrong, Jefferson, Forest, and Venango.
Any genealogy questions can be e-mailed to genealogyhelp@clarionfreelibrary.org.