PA Photos and Documents Islandora Update Webinar When:  December 3, 2018 2:00pm Earlier this year, Hosting Solutions and Library Consulting (HSLC) conducted an RFP for a new digital repository software platform for PA Photos and Documents. The open-source platform Islandora was...

HSLC will be performing maintenance on both Friday (10/5) and Saturday (10/6) in the evening from 5 PM to midnight.  During this maintenance window, the POWER Library Portal and PA Photos and Documents services may not be available. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience...

Gale Topic Collections (InfoTrac Collections) added to POWER Library Portal In addition to the new Gale e-resources that have been presented on the POWER Library Portal since August 1, there are also 29 additional topic collections (InfoTrac Collections) available if a user navigates...

Digitization Initiative  A Centre County Library & Historical Museum collection of correspondence, inaugural addresses and other documents called The Bellefonte Governors’ Papers is now available online through POWER Library. Bellefonte has been the home to seven governors,...

POWER Library Fall 2018 Training – Registration Now Open! ***Please share this message broadly with your staff and colleagues that may be interested in the new Gale e-resources.*** REGISTER NOW! Registration for the live 2018 Fall Training sessions is now open! There are...

New E-Resources Have Arrived in POWER Library! “List all”, “Help me choose”, and POWER Kids links If you link to the alphabetical (“List all”) or subject (“Help me choose”) listing or to POWER Kids, you do not need to make any changes to your library...

The EBSCO E-Books collection in POWER Library has grown again! Two-hundred new titles are now available in EBSCO E-Books. The titles focus mostly on history and biography and all are downloadable.   You will find new titles like: Etched in Stone On to Chicago She Caused a Riot Biz...

POWER Library Portal Maintenance Notice On Friday, June 22, beginning at 11 PM, the POWER Library Portal (powerlibrary.org) will be unavailable due to system maintenance.  The Portal is expected to be available again by 6 AM on Saturday, June 23.  We apologize in advance for any...

  Pennsylvania Department of Education Office of Commonwealth Libraries Glenn Miller, Deputy Secretary & Commissioner for Libraries Monday, June 11, 2018 Earlier this month, I sent you an email explaining that state law requires the Office of Commonwealth Libraries (OCL)...

HSLC has scheduled the dates and locations for the…. 2018 Fall Access PA/POWER Library training. Plan to join training at one of these locations: Monday, September 24 – Northwest IU 5, Edinboro Tuesday, September 25 – RLA Learning & Conference Center at Cranberry...