Databases

Use our subscription databases to find citations and full text articles. To get started, just click on the database that you would like to search. If you're outside the library, you may need to enter your library card number and PIN in order to access the database.

• Digital Media
• Digital Learning
• Free Library Catalog

Awarded “Best Library Digital Resources” by Philadelphia Magazine

• Books & Authors

  Books & Authors answers the question: What Do I Read Next? Explore authors, genres, books, and topics to discover books that match your interests. Search over 240,000 fiction and non-fiction librarian-recommended titles.

  Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

  • Biography and Autobiography
  • Body, Mind and Spirit
  • Business and Economics
  • Fiction
  • Literature
  • Science
  • Summer Reading
  • Adults
  • Teens
  • Children
  • New Americans
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Romance
  • Seniors

• LitFinder

  Find the sonnets of Shakespeare, the poetry of Angelou, presidential speeches, and short stories by Poe. Discover full-text literature from more than 150,000 poems, 7,100 short stories & novels, 3,800 essays, 2,400 speeches, and 1,250 plays.

  Available To: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.

  • Biography and Autobiography
  • Fiction
  • Literature
  • Performing Arts
  • Poetry
  • Adults
  • Teens

denotes POWER Library resource

This project is made possible in part by Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and through Library Access Funds administered by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Department of Education, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, Governor.