Online Resources for Library Apps, Catalogs, Databases and eContent

Library Apps, Online Resources and eContent

For GHAL Online Resources you will need an active library card in good standing or request a digital-only card.

graphic showing the libby app desktop tablet mobile phone app smartphone app streaming service kanopy — Use the Library’s free Libby app to access eBooks, eAudiobooks, streaming movies, tv and music, entertainment apps and more

Free LIBBY App

eBooks, eAudiobooks, Streaming, Entertainment, eClasses, eCourses, Foreign Language, Music, Concerts and more

Did you know that the Library has its own app?! The free Libby app gives you access to ALL of your eContent (online)
ANYTIME.
ANYWHERE.
ON ANY DEVICE.

If you haven’t downloaded Libby app yet, you can get instruction here on how to do so. Or, simply go to your app store, type in Libby, download the free app, open it after download, create an account and link your account to the Library using your Library card number.

Libby allows you to search the online catalog, download the books you want to read, create reading lists, track what books you’ve already read, save your progress, take notes as you read, look up uncertain words and so much more!

Libby gives you access to resources like:

Libby’s eCatalog/online catalog of more than 14,000 eBooks and eAudiobooks in the WLN
Kanopy for streaming tv shows, series and movies
Craftsy for DIY projects, crafts and activities
The Great Courses for online classes and continued education (some programs meet CME requirements)
IndieFlix for streaming independently produced movies
Quello Concerts by Stingray for recorded concerts and music
Classica for commercial-free classical music.

student opens mouth and foreign country flags comes out of his mouth referencing to learning foreign languages — Pronunciator helps you learn a foreign language using a combination of speech, video, music and more.

Free Pronunciator App

Pronunciator is a fun and free way to learn any of 315 languages with personalized courses, movies, chat and more much like Babble, Rosetta Stone or Doulingo. Each has their own unique way to teaching a foreign language.

Learn online, either on your desktop or mobile phone, using the app. Link your Library card to your Pronunciator app to learn a foreign language for free.

Statewide Databases

Power Kids

BookFlix –Watch videos, read books, and play games.
CyberSmarts – Learn how to be a safe, responsible, and smart citizen online and in real life.
Kids InfoBits – Knowledge is power, and the act of learning is empowering. Kid InfoBits is friendly database where it’s safe to let them to click around.
True Flix – Learn about people, places, nature, history, and science with videos and eBooks.

Power Teens POWER Teens provides online resources including full-text research e-resources, collections of photographs and documents, the statewide catalog of materials held in libraries throughout Pennsylvania, and Chat with a Librarian.

GALE Courses offers approximately 370 highly interactive, instructor led courses that you can take entirely online. As a library card holder in good standing, you are entitled to these courses at no cost. Courses run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month.

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Updated: 3/19/2024