Safety or Privacy? Is Technology Too Smart?

Check out the Points of View E-Books 

Available in GALE E-Books 

Is Safety More Important Than Privacy?

This book discusses viewpoints on the many angles of conflict between safety and privacy. This informative reading experience allows readers to gain a deeper understanding of the arguments and formulate their own opinions.

Is Technology Becoming Too Smart?

This book discusses viewpoints on the many angles about the abilities of smart devices. Objective text encourages critical thinking to help the next generation of innovators come to their own conclusions about technology.

Home and Gardening

Find E-Books In EBSCO E-Books To Improve Your Home and Gardening Experiences 

Here are some of the titles available:

• Alexa For Dummies
• Biodynamic Gardening : Grow Healthy Plants and Amazing Produce with the Help of the Moon and Nature's Cycles
• Fern Grower's Manual
• Garden Design
• Grow All You Can Eat in 3 Square Feet : Inventive Ideas for Growing Food in a Small Space
• Grow Your Own Groceries : How to Feed Your Family From Your Own Back Garden
• Handyman's Handbook
• How to Grow More Vegetables : And Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine: a Primer on the Life-giving Sustainable Grow Biointensive Method of Organic Horticulture
• Plumbing Instant Answers
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Trouble-free Home Repair
• Tree Cultures : The Place of Trees and Trees in Their Place
• Waterwise House and Garden : A Guide for Sustainable Living
• Woodwork Step by Step : More Than 100 Tools and Techniques with Inspirational Projects to Make

Need Some Help Understanding Social Media Platforms? 

Check Out PA Online Learning!

PA Online Learning includes free learning resources to help users understand several social media platforms.

Learn more with tutorials on the following social media platforms:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Linkedin
• Pinterest
• Snapchat
• Twitter

Beginning Readers Can Have Fun Watching
and Reading this Summer with BookFLIX!

Watch videos and read books about animals, celebrations, nature, music, earth, family, community, and more. Some films
and books are available in Spanish too!

BookFLIX includes the following:

Watch the Story: streaming video of a classic children’s story. A Read Along option can be activated to display the audio portion of the story, with word-by-word highlighting, as it plays.

Read the Book: related nonfiction text presented in a flipbook format. The Read Along option can be activated to hear the text read
aloud with word-by-word highlighting. In addition, key content vocabulary words are highlighted in yellow. Placing the cursor on the highlighted word will display its definition, and the student can click the ear icon to hear the definition read aloud.

All the stories in BookFLIX are categorized according to nine themes:

• ABC’s and 1, 2, 3’s
• Adventure
• Animals and Nature
• Celebrations
• Earth and Sky
• Family and Community
• Imagination
• Music and Rhyme
• People and Places,

Each topic includes a pair of books, one fiction and one non-fiction.

With topics and stories appropriate for preschoolers through Grade 3, BookFLIX makes it fun and interesting for children to learn the difference between fact and fiction.

Got a Question? Text a Librarian Now!

Text your question to:
717-527-3866

Texting available:
Monday-Thursday 10-8
Friday 10-5

Try the Find a PA Library search tool available from POWER Library. Just enter your address, city, or ZIP code and you will be provided with a list of the three libraries closest to your location.  Get a library card and find out all about the services offered at your library!

• Chat with a Librarian – 24/7 live chat reference, and text and email options too!
• E-Resources – self-help tools for finding information on all subjects
• Books, Movies, and More in a PA Library - find books in PA school, public, academic, and special libraries
• PA Photos and Documents – historical collections of photos and documents

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POWER Library News Issue No. 111 (July 2023)