Online Resources
The FREE premium subscription resources found on POWER library gives you immediate access to thousands of magazines and books, car repair manuals, full text articles, newspapers photographs,charts, maps, pictures and more.
You need a valid Coudersport Public Library card to access these resources. Logging in requires a unique ID. Please contact the library for assistance logging in. Call us at 814-274-9382 or email us at coudy502@hotmail.com.
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Is a source researchers rely on for major trade and industry news. It includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics for more than 1,250 publications, with over 1,140 in full-text. With ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, users can study and compare specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.
Catalog holdings of almost 3,000 Pennsylvania school, public, academic and special libraries are included in this online resource. Search by author, title, subject or keyword to locate over 44 million items.
More than a million current and historical photographs and graphics can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs are added to the archive daily. Also contains newspaper text and audio files.
Want a professional librarian to find your answer? We’re here to help you get answers to your questions, any time and anywhere you have internet access. Unlike other "expert" sites on the web, there is no charge to use our free service. We’ll be doing what libraries have always done best; quickly getting you the accurate, unbiased information you need. Available 24/7.
Auto Repair Reference Center
Find auto repair and service information for most car models
starting in 1954. Factory drawings and step-by-step photographs. Technical service bulletins and recall information. Wiring diagrams for easy viewing printing. Specifications, maintenance schedules and “Care & Repair Tips” with a complete troubleshooting section. Estimate repair costs before visiting the mechanic. Learn more about how your car works, visit the Auto IQ section for videos and animated demonstrations.
• Freading is a new eBook service for Coudersport Public Library users.Over 26,000 titles are available from a variety of small and independent publishers.
• New books are added weekly.
• All eBooks allow for multi-user access, so there is never any waiting for a title.
• eBbooks are checked out for 14 days and can be renewed.
• Over 4,00 books for children, graphic novels and comic books for teens and great new mysteries, romances and self-help for adults.
• Apple and Android Apps available for most devices.
Get an eBook from Freading in 4 Easy Steps !
Freading Help
See the Freading FAQ page for answers to questions like these.
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- Can I renew an eBook?
- What devices work with the Freading eBook service?
Focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology.
Health & Wellness Resource Center
Provides easy to use content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full-text online resource covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children’s health, men & women’s health, etc.
A comprehensive treasury of American genealogical sources—rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids. Heritage Quest Online 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. The collection consists of six core data sets including: US Federal Censuses; Genealogy and local history books; Periodical Source Index (PERSI); Revolutionary War records; Freedman’s Bank records; and LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set. To log in from home, use your 5 digit Coudersport Library card number. This is a service of the Potter-Tioga Library System.
Provides millions of full-text articles from more than 1,400 newspapers, including Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Christian Science Monitor, The Financial Times (London), The New York Times, The Times (London), USA Today and many others. Ability to search by specific newspaper section to deliver more precise results. Comprehensive coverage of current events, including national, global and regional perspectives, as well as first-hand accounts of historical events. Listen to articles read using built in player or download MP3 files to listen to on mobile devices.
LISTA
(Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts)
Bibliographic online resource that provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, online information retrieval, information management and more. LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports and proceedings. With coverage dating back to the mid-1960s, it is the oldest continuously produced online resource covering the field of information science.
Listen to Books
Download audio and eBooks to play on a variety of portable devices or on your computer. Listen or read books on your computer, burn some audio titles to CD, transfer to MP3 audio players, iPods, iPhones, and Zune devices. You will find best-sellers, self-help, book club favorites. You will need to log in with an 5 digit library ID. Please contact the library for assistance. This is a service of the North Central Library District.
To use Mango you will need a current library card from the Coudersport Public Library. To log in, you must type “CPL” followed by your library card number (no spaces). Call us at 814-274-9382 or email us at coudy502@hotmail.com if you have trouble logging in. You can create your own profile to track your progress in your courses.
Mango is available in three versions:
Mango Basic:
Perfect for a foreign language beginner, Mango Basic teaches everyday greetings, gratitude’s, goodbyes and helpful phrases in a short period of time. The courses, which require only two to five hours of time to complete, are currently available in 49 foreign languages and 15 English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. You can view all the supported Mango Basic languages and ESL courses here
Mango Complete:
Mango Complete offers a 100-lesson course that digs much deeper and is designed to provide a more complete understanding of the entire language and culture. It is available in 44 foreign languages and 13 ESL courses. Foreign language courses include Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. ESL courses include Polish, Spanish and Portuguese. You can view all the supported Mango Complete languages and ESL courses here.
Mango Mobile Library Edition
Learn languages everywhere you go with the Mango free app for the iPhone® and iPod touch® (it also runs on the iPad®). Full featured, Mango Mobile Library Edition gives you access to all the Mango language courses offered through the library. Learn about the Mango Mobile App here
To learn more about Mango and get a short preview of what the program has to offer, you can visit the Mango company’s website . Even better, you can watch the videos about Mango Languages here.
Mango Languages is brought to you by the Coudersport Public Library.
Electronic books (eBooks) are available through this link. netLibrary eBooks are full text search-able and available for use on personal computers in online formats.
Provides magazines with full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources. Articles from nearly 4,000 publications and article abstracts and indexing from 3,500 publications +. Covers Education, General Science, Humanites, Social Sciences and Business.
Provides a 100% full-text articles from more than 2,500 publications. It is a multidisciplinary and includes: Art , Applied Science & Technology, Biological & Agricultural Index, Education, General Science, Humanities, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature & Information Science, Readers’ Guide, Social Sciences, and Business.
Provides 100% full-text for the most popular general-interest magazines published in the United States and Canada. Subjects Covered include: African-Americans, Aging, Astronomy, Automobiles, Biography, Business, Children, Computers, Consumer Education, Current Events, Education, Environment, Fashion, Film, Fine Arts, Food, Foreign Affairs, Health, History, Hobbies, Home, Journalism, Leisure Activities, Medicine, Music, News, Nutrition, Photography, Politics, Religion, Science, Sports, Television.
Provides full text content from 320 journals with full text articles, indexing and abstracts. Subjects Covered: Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry,Computer Databases & Software, Construction,Energy Resources & Research, Environmental Science, Fishery Sciences, Food Science, Forestry, Genetics, Horticulture, Immunology, Marine Biology, Microbiology, Nutrition, Paleontology, Physiology, Plant Pathology, Soil Science, Veterinary Medicine, Wildlife, Zoology.
SIRS Discoverer, an award-winning general reference resource for learners and researchers in grades 1-9, makes learning fun and intuitive. Discoverer
helps students develop their research, writing, language, and computer skills. Only the best, most unique, and most relevant resources are selected for SIRS Discoverer. Now with Science Fair Explorer and Skills Discoverer.










