Category: Teen Resources

Teen Update: Online Magazines with Flipster

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If you have a library card and an internet connection then you can access digital copies of some amazing magazines through Flipster. Most recent and older issues are available. Here are just a few of the over 80 magazines that are right at your fingertips:

Sports Fans – ESPN Magazine, Black Belt (world’s leading magazine of marital arts), Backpacker, Golf Digest

Aspiring Cooks – Bon Appetit, Clean Eating, Eating Well, Food Network Magazine, Allrecipes

Automobile Enthusiasts – Motor Trend, Hot Rod, Car & Driver

And still more . . . Sky & Telescope, National Geographic, Newsweek Global and, of course, you can always catch up on the latest celebrity gossip with People Magazine!

Helping Local Senior Living Community

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Wondering how you and your family can help the community and still be safe? Many of the seniors in our community live alone and are currently quarantined in their apartments in senior living facilities. How about making some Easter/ Spring themed greeting cards to bring cheer to those isolated in their rooms/ apartments? Or put together a small care package of prepackaged goodies/ treats to be distributed to the residences. They cannot see family right now and many don’t have the technology means or skills to video chat so the tiniest gesture would spread a lot of cheer for these residences.  The links below provides some websites to local senior living communities. Some have safe outside drop off so no contact is exchanged with others.  Please call first to find out their policies with regards to receiving outside cards/gifts.

Ashbridge Manor at Downingtown

Simpson Meadows at Downingtown

Five Stars Exton Senior Living

Sunrise Senior Living of Exton

Arbours Square at West Chester

The Hickman Friends Senior Community of West Chester

Sunrise Senior Living of Westtown

 

 

 

Teen Update: Daily Practice for SAT

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The May 2 SAT is cancelled, so now what should you do?

Consider using this extra time to become even better prepared! It’s easy to do by making practice a part of your daily routine. Answer a question a day on the Daily Practice app and get immediate feedback. Created by College Board, this free app also provides answer explanations and helps you learn from your mistakes. So just a few minutes a day could make a big difference when test day rolls around! Learn more about it here.

FREE WiFi Available Outside Most CCLS Libraries

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Did you know Free WiFi is available outside most Chester County Library System libraries.  To access, simply go to any library and situate yourself within a safe distance from other people who are also using WiFi. 

To connect to WiFi on your computer: 

  1. Go to Available Networks
  2. Click ‘Library’
  3. Click ‘Connect’
  4. Open an Internet Browser (Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Silk, etc.)
  5. Type ‘www.dogster.com’ in your URL bar
  6. The library’s Internet Acceptable Use Policy will appear
  7. Read and accept it by clicking the green ‘Connect’ button
  8. You’re now connected!

Online high school and college resources

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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:

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.