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July 8, 2025
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OverDrive Collections are
Coming to POWER Library!
For the first time in POWER Library — we’re adding audiobooks!
We are excited to announce a pilot project that will bring OverDrive collections to POWER Library! E-Card users constantly ask us how to access OverDrive and Libby — and we are finally able to refer them to POWER Library OverDrive E-Book and audiobook collections! 
 
POWER Library's OverDrive collections will supplement, not replace, what your local library already offers, and include popular and accessible titles available to all Pennsylvanians. Approximately 11,000 e-books and 2,000 audiobooks will be added in the coming months.
POWER and Libby logos on an e-book
Many of the titles are geared to tween and teen audiences, focusing on these subjects: Animals and Nature; Biographies & Autobiographies; Emotional Well-Being; Fiction; Hi-Lo; Science & Nature; Sports & Recreation; STEAM; World & Culture. Additionally, also included are comics and graphic novels from Disney, Marvel, Dark Horse, and more!
A curated OverDrive Max Collection will be included, and for the first time in POWER Library we’re adding audiobooks available in collections from Duke Classics, Blackstone Audio, Tantor Media, and W.H. Howe.
 
When will these collections be available?
We are working with OverDrive to implement these collections over the summer and will provide more information as soon as possible. Stay tuned!
Questions? Contact Support!

Transparent Language
Transparent Language
Professional Development Webinars for Libraries
Aimed at keeping you fresh on various aspects of the program.
Transparent Language is proud to host Transparent Language Online training webinars for librarians, aimed at keeping you fresh on various aspects of our program with webinars such as:
  • Getting Started with Transparent Language Online
  • Supporting Your ELL Community with Transparent Language Online
  • Supporting Young Learners with Transparent Language Online
  • What's New in Transparent Language Online? 
Times and dates for these webinars can be found here.
View Webinar Opportunities!

Encyclopedia Britannica
EdTech Breakthrough Award for POWER Library
E-Resource!
🎉 Big Win for Little Learners!
We’re proud to share that a POWER Library provided E-Resource, Britannica School: Early Elementary, has been named “Overall Early Childhood Education Solution of the Year” by the prestigious EdTech Breakthrough Awards!
 
By offering this award-winning resource to schools across our state, we’re ensuring that even our 
EDTECH Breakthrough Award
youngest learners have access to safe, engaging, and fact-checked content that builds curiosity and a love of learning from the start.
Explore Britannica School - Where Big Ideas Begin!

Find E-Resources
Recently Added Digital Collections!
Civil War Sketch Book, Trees, and Art League
Centre County Gregg Post No. 95 GAR Veteran Books made available by Centre County Library & Historical Museum
 
Historic Trees of the Delaware Valley and Maryland Photographs made available by Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 
 
Johnstown Art League made available by Pennsylvania Highlands Community College
Boys in front of old tree circa 1930
Historical caption with photograph: "But Only God Can Make A Tree. Wye Oak, at Wye Mills, Md., believed unequaled in this part of the country." The photograph shows two children standing on the roots of a tree.
Explore All Digital Collections!

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