Research Guides: ED 212: Children's and Adolescent Literature: Search for Books

Education Library

Education Department Library
Search the catalog of the Education Department's library of children's books in Nicarry.

Search their catalog.

Books & Authors Database
Discover fiction and non-fiction books for readers from every level of reading proficiency. Explore combinations of books, authors, genres and topics from more than 240,000 titles. You will need a Lancaster County public library card to access this database.
BookFLIX
Videos and books about Animals and Nature, Earth and Sky, People and Places, ABC’s and 1, 2, 3’s, Family and Community, Music and Rhyme, Adventure, and more. Some titles are available in Spanish too! You will need a Lancaster County public library card to access this database.

WorldCat
Search more than 2 billion records of items owned by libraries around the world. Its user-friendly search will indicate items owned by Elizabethtown and will link you directly to Interlibrary Loan.

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Access WorldCat through First Search for more advanced search functionality.

Area Colleges (ACLCP libraries)
Search the catalogs of libraries in the area. These colleges have an agreement with Etown which will let you borrow books directly from them. You can also request their books through Interlibrary Loan.
AccessPA Libraries
Search the catalogs of libraries across Pennsylvania.
ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan)
Request books from other libraries, for free, using this system.

EBSCOhost E-Book Collection This link opens in a new window
Ebook collection containing high-quality academic and popular titles from a broad range of subject and topic areas.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
A digital library from various scholarly and university presses that offers authoritative ebooks covering a wide range of subject areas.
Books @ JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of eBooks that can be accessed via JSTOR's one search integrated platform, along with the JSTOR archival collections.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Project Muse is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Project MUSE is a trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and eBooks from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies.

Project Gutenberg
The original e-book site containing over 17,000 titles, most published 75 or more years ago.
Hathi Trust Digital Library
HathiTrust is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries.
Internet Archive
Archive of digital texts, audio, moving images, and webpages.
Online Books Page
Links to 25,000 free e-books on the Web, courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania.

LibriVox
Free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.