Search the ReferenceUSA Jobs/Internships Module to find your next job with advanced search options, a convenient mapping tool, and detailed business profiles. ReferenceUSA video tutorials, live webinars, and training guides are available to help you better understand how to use the search features from home. Log in to the database using your Chester County Library card number.
Category: Adult Resources
People® Magazine and more!
People® Magazine is a favorite read for many, and digital copies of People® Magazine and over 80 other magazine titles are available from the library through Flipster to read from home! Read the most recent issue, or enjoy browsing through older issues.
To start exploring and to view a full list of titles on your computer, visit chescolibraries.org, select “Downloads,” scroll down the page to click on the Flipster button, and then enter your CCLS library card number. You can also download the Flipster app to get started on your mobile device.
Read and Search ‘Consumer Reports’ from Home!
Doing your homework to be an informed consumer before making purchases is always a good thing. The library provides access to Consumer Reports through a database called MasterFile Premier. Once signed in with an active library card, you can simply click Publications on the top toolbar and then enter “Consumer Reports” in the second search box that appears. After clicking on the “Consumer Reports” record, you can browse all issues by year on the right-hand side or click “Search within this publication.”
If you are in need of help with accessing articles and ratings from Consumer Reports while the library is closed, please contact a librarian with your questions or requests by email (ref@ccls.org), voicemail (610-344-5957), or simply fill out the form on the Contact Us page. We’re here to help!
Resources for BUSINESSES during the COVID-19 pandemic – PA Chamber of Business and Industry
The Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry is dedicated to helping business across the Commonwealth. Now that the coronavirus has made its way to the U.S., Pennsylvania businesses are inquiring about information to be prepared to help their company, their employees, and their families.
The information at https://www.pachamber.org/coronavirus/ includes resources that provide helpful information you may need to navigate the current situation. This web page includes government updates, financial resources, employer guidance, and healthcare information.
Watch On Stage Plays and Musicals
There is something to say about watching on stage plays and musicals. The experience helps you to escape the realities. It also helps you to relax your minds and enrich your lives. Now you have the best seat to watch on stage plays and musicals from the comfort of your home.
Understanding the CARES Act & Its Impact
Webinar on Understanding the CARES Act & Its Impact
Thursday, April 2 at 9:00 am ET
The $2 trillion stimulus package, “Coronavirus Aid Relief & Economic Security Act, (“CARES ACT”), was signed into law on Friday, March 27th. It authorizes the Internal Revenue Service to send $1,200 payments to millions of Americans and creates programs to disburse close to $1 trillion in business loans and guarantees to millions of large and small companies throughout the economy. This webinar will provide an overview of the CARES Act and discuss other health and tax related items as well as a Q&A session.
Presenters:
Shelly Bloom, Director of Legislative Awareness & Training
My Benefit Advisor
Richard H. Miller, Jr., CPA, President
The Harrison Group, Inc.
The Exton Region Chamber of Commerce has more information about the Act on their website and a Small Business Owner’s Guide to the CARES Act.
Third Telephone Town Hall for Chester County businesses and non-profits
Please join the Chester County Commissioners and leaders from the Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry (CCCBI), Chester County Economic Development Council (CCEDC), the Small Business Administration (SBA), and our elected officials and staff, for a Telephone Town Hall on Thursday, April 2, 2020. This session focuses on the new CARES Act as well as other programs available – from loans to grants to unemployment compensation.
This Telephone Town Hall will be divided into TWO SEPARATE EVENTS – one for FOR-PROFIT BUSINESSES at 11:00 a.m. and one for NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS at 2:00 p.m.
For-profit businesses 11am telephone town hall
Non-profit organization 2pm telephone town hall
PLEASE REGISTER BY 9:00 A.M. ON THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2020
Prior to the Telephone Town Hall, please review
all business information relating to COVID-19 at
Chester County – www.chesco.org
Chester County Chamber of Business & Industry – www.cccbi.org
Chester County Economic Development Council – www.ccedcpa.com
Small Business Administration – www.sba.gov
or for more information email business@chesco.org
Chester County Commissioners
Marian Moskowitz, Josh Maxwell and Michelle Kichline
If you have any questions or issues with registration or the teleconference, please contact: business@chesco.org.
Financial empowerment from CFPB
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regulates the offering and provision of consumer financial products or services under the federal consumer financial laws and educates and empowers consumers to make better informed financial decisions. Check out their website for resources about loan and debt management, saving for retirement, keeping your finances safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more.
Online high school and college resources
Do you have high school and college kids at home, doing online coursework? The word “homework” has taken on a whole new meaning! Here are some great resources from our databases to help them get their work done:
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE:
- Contemporary Authors – database of more than 135,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, prominent print and broadcast journalists, editors, photojournalists, syndicated cartoonists and screenwriters.
- LitFinder (POWER Library) – literature content from full-text poems, poem citations and excerpts, full-text short stories and novels, essays, speeches, and plays. Plus biographies, work summaries, photographs, and a glossary.
- Mango Languages – the fast, easy, and most effective way to learn to speak a foreign language.
NEWS & HISTORICAL RESEARCH:
- AP Images (POWER Library) – search current and historical photographs
- New York Times – articles from 1981 to the present, and an archive from 1851-1922.
- ONEFILE: News (POWER Library) – Full-text newspapers from more than 2,300 national and world newspapers, images, radio and TV broadcasts, and transcripts.
- Philadelphia Inquirer Collection with Historical – scanned copies of the complete issues from 1829-1922 and January 2018 to current. Full text of articles from 1981-current.
SUBJECT RESEARCH:
- Explora – subject overviews, full text magazine articles, images and AP clips on wide variety of subjects.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (POWER Library) – a collection of reference titles in the arts, biography, business, education, environment, general reference, history, literature, medicine, nation and world, science, and the social sciences.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library (Chester County Library) – a collection of reference titles in the arts, biography, business, education, environment, general reference, history, literature, medicine, nation and world, science, and the social sciences. Includes Business Plans Handbook Series (volumes 1-35).
- General OneFile (POWER Library) – general-interest periodical resource. Millions of articles available in PDF and HTML full-text, supplemented by reference, newspaper, and audio content.
- GreenFILE (POWER Library) – information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.
- MasterFile Premier – subject overviews, full text magazine articles, an image collection and AP clips.
- ONEFILE: High School Edition (POWER Library) – information from magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, and engaging multi-media covering science, history, and literature, political science, sports, and environmental studies.
- Informe Académico – supports Spanish-speaking researchers with full-text Spanish- and Portuguese-language scholarly journals and magazines both from and about Latin America.
SCIENCE RESEARCH:
- IN CONTEXT: Environmental Studies (POWER Library) – Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources for environment and sustainability studies, materials and resources on energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population and economic development.
- Science Reference Center (POWER Library) – full text science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other reliable sources. More than 280,000 high-quality science images.
Looking for something else? Click here for a full list of our databases by subject.
Stream Free Audio Recordings of Seven Shakespeare Plays
The Folger Shakespeare has made audio recordings of seven Folger Shakespeare plays available for free streaming until July 1 2020. Choose from Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Richard III, and Romeo and Juliet, “performed by the professional actors of Folger Theatre, in consultation with the editors of The Folger Shakespeare.”
You can also read free full text of all of Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems, learn about topics related to Shakespeare, and more.
Enjoy exploring!
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