Library Resources
The Beaver County Library System is proud to offer many different resources to our patrons. Most of which can even be accessed at home with a valid library card.
Online Catalog
You can explore our collection from anywhere in the world. You can also request items to be held at your nearest Beaver County Library or renew items you've already checked out.
Dear Reader / Book News Newsletters
- New Book Alerts
- New Book Alerts is a free online service that showcases the newest titles purchased by your local library. You can select to receive alerts via email and/or RSS feeds. If you see a new title that you are interested in, just click "check catalog" to place a hold on the item right away.
- Book News
- Sign up for monthly newsletters in a variety of different categories and genres.
- Online Book Clubs
- Sign up for one, or several book clubs, depending on what you like to read. By the next morning, you'll start receiving your daily "dose of book" in your email. By the end of the week you'll know whether or not you want to continue with the book. Online discussion groups available for each book.
Book Reviews
Here is a collection of book reviews written by Beaver County librarians for the Beaver County Times.
Overdrive Digital Collection
Download eBooks and eAudio Books from our digital collection!
Tumble Books
Animated childrens books and interactive games.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Explore the Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
Learning Express
Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want-at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you.
Foundation Center
The Center Express Library is a Cooperating Collection of the Foundation Center. As a member of this nationwide network of libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit agencies, the Center Express Library provides visitors with free public access to grantmaker directories, books on fundraising and nonprofit management, and the Foundation Center's electronic databases, Foundation Directory Online Professional, Foundation Grants to Individuals Online, and Philanthropy In/Sight.
Power Library
The POWER Library is offered as a service of Pennsylvania's public libraries, school libraries and the State Library.The POWER library allows you to access thousands of full text periodical articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, reference materials for young people and more. You will find materials of interest in most subject areas for all age groups from young children to adults.
eLibrary
Through eLibrary, users can find images, video, eBooks, and 100% full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. They can also find maps, transcripts, audio files, graphics, interactives, dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, almanacs, atlases, timelines, slideshows, editorially created research pages, and hand-selected websites. Publications are updated promptly, and thousands of new images are added every day.
Ancestry Online - Library Edition
AncestryLibrary.com is the world's largest online resource for family history.Ancestry Library edition is only available from computers within our libraries.
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