Hershey Public Library

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E-Resources for Research

POWER Kids	Data Axle Reference Solutions	Career Transitions

POWER Kids is a collection of e-resources for young children on subjects that include animals, art, biography, history, science, and so much more.	(Formerly known as Reference USA.) Information on U.S. historical businesses, new movers home owners, healthcare, jobs/internships, and consumers/lifestyles.	Find help to create resumes, on writing cover letters and applying for positions.

Gale Courses	Health & Wellness Resource Center	Ebook Collection

Over 375 instructor-led interactive courses on many topics from Accounting and Finance to Writing and Publishing.	Accurate and authoritative information on a full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to alternative and complementary medical practices.	eBooks in a wide range of subject areas and topics in fiction and nonfiction for adults, young adults and children.

eBooks for Reference	Science Reference Center	MyHeritage

Access a collection of more than 50 reference e-books covering a variety of subjects from Arts to Technology. Collaborative tools to enable users to share, save, and download content—including highlights and notes.	Topics covered include biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.	Internationally diverse genealogy database. It includes billions of historical documents from over 48 countries, millions of historical photos, public records, indexes and additional resources.

Tutor.com	Power Search	LegalForms Library

Get online help on over 40 subjects including Math, Science, Social Studies, English, AP ® Support, Foreign Languages, Business. GED, U.S. Citizenship, Test Prep, Study & Career Resources.	Search many of the Gale e-resources available in POWER Library in one place! Find articles and information from Academic OneFile, General OneFile, InfoTrac Newsstand.	Access legal online documents you can customize. No special skill or extensive knowledge of the law is required.

NoveList Plus	Morningstar	POWER Library

Recommended reading lists. Find fiction and nonfiction books by genre, mood, age group, read-alike and listen-alike titles and featured award winners.	From a respected and reliable source. Investment information and analysis for all levels of fund and stock investors on companies, markets, ETFs and portfolio of planning tools.	Thousands of full text periodical articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, reference materials for adults and young people.

Services for the Blind & Accessibility Resources

Services to senior citizens home-bound or in nursing homes:

Friends Library on Wheels

Any member of staff will gladly assist a patron who would like help to get set up with Library on Wheels, and to locate materials at the Hershey Public Library.

Free Library Services from the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped – equipment and materials.

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) Digital audiobook players. Download an application form.

Online Resources and links to websites for assisted devices, information, services, educational resources and funding resources:

Pennsylvania Department of Human Resources Assistive Technology

Movies to borrow from the library.

Closed caption DVDs for the hearing impaired. All DVDs in foreign languages in the World Languages Collection and Film Movement DVDs in the regular DVD collection have English subtitles.

Materials available at the Hershey Public Library.

The library has a large print fiction, nonfiction, and biography books in the collection.

Audio books to borrow from the library.

Books on CD

MP3 Audiobooks

Borrow a C-Pen Text to Speech Reader

Download audio books to a computer or mobile device.

Digital media through Overdrive

More helpful books.

Books about Braille

Books about Sign Language