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July 1, 2025
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Access to E-Books To Be Streamlined!
One e-book platform to rule them all!
Beginning July 8th, the E-Book Collection will be the single access point for all e-books previously found in EBSCO E-Books, GALE E-Books, and ProQuest E-Book Central.
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The individual platforms will no longer appear separately on POWER Library’s List All, By Subject, or POWER Teens pages. Instead, all content will be accessed through the E-Book Collection e-resource.
 
What does this mean for your institution?
If you currently provide direct links to EBSCO E-Books, GALE E-Books, or ProQuest E-Book Central on your website, LMS, or other platforms, you may continue to do so. 
 
Do you need to take any action?
No. The POWER Library List All, By Subject, and POWER Teens pages will update automatically to remove EBSCO E-Books, GALE E-Books, and ProQuest E-Book Central.
 
What is the benefit of consolidating access?
With the enhanced access to e-books now implemented through the E-Book Collection e-resource, users can now discover and access the e-books available in those collections in one place.
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POWER UP! 
Save the date for
Fall Training!
9 locations around PA!
We are excited to announce the schedule for POWER Library Fall 2025 Training!
  • September 30th at Westmoreland Intermediate Unit 7 (Greensburg)
  • October 1st at Riverview Intermediate Unit 6 (Clarion)
  • October 2nd at Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11 (McVeytown)
  • October 7th at Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit 21 (Schnecksville)
  • October 8th at Holiday Inn-East Mountain (Wilkes-Barre)
  • October 9th at BLaST Intermediate Unit 17 (Williamsport)
  • October 14th at Lincoln Intermediate Unit 12 (New Oxford)
  • October 15th at Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (Lancaster)
  • October 16th at Upper Merion Township Library (King of Prussia)
We plan to open registration in August. Please keep an eye on the Access Pennsylvania News for Fall Training updates. 
Fall Training Information Will Also Be Available Here!

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Discontinuing
E-Resources
You might need to update your library's website.
Effective July 1st, the following E-Resources will be removed from POWER Library:
  • Academic Search Main Edition (EBSCO)
  • Cricket Media E-Books (EBSCO)
  • TrueFLIX (Scholastic)
Academic Search Main Edition is being replaced by Academic OneFile Select (GALE), which has already been available in POWER Library for most of 2025. To help address the loss of Cricket Media E-Books and TrueFLIX, additional e-books focused on history and biography will be acquired from GALE later this year and added to the E-Book Collection.
 
What does my library need to do?
If your library provides direct links to any of the discontinuing E-Resources on your website, learning management platform, etc., you will need to remove those E-Resources. 
 
Links to the E-Resource List All, By Subject, POWER Kids, and POWER Teens websites will automatically be updated. 
 
Notifying Users
Notices have been added to each discontinued e-resource on POWER Library. 
View All E-Resources Now!

Contemporary Authors
REMINDER
Contemporary Authors Updated!
The POWER Library instance of Contemporary Authors was updated with the following:
  • 1,107 existing author records were updated
  • 1,069 new authors were added
The total number of authors is now 164,339. 
 
Contemporary Authors includes:
  • Extensive Author Coverage: Includes profiles of authors from various genres and disciplines, encompassing both well-known and emerging writers.
  • Biographical and Bibliographical Information: Each entry provides comprehensive details about an author's life, career, publications, awards, and more.
Note that the content in Contemporary Authors is owned by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and will always be available to POWER Library users. 
Access Contemporary Authors Now!

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Happy Fourth of July from HSLC!
HSLC wishes everyone a safe and enjoyable Independence Day!
HSLC will be closed for business on Friday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day.
 
HSLC staff will monitor support for any notification of service outages. All other support needs will be responded to upon our return to work on Monday, July 7.
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