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Local COVID-19 Resources

PowerLibrary
The code for our library is PL2878 followed by eight digits.  These eight digits must include your library card number using zeros as fillers between PL2878 and your card number.
Power Library resources are 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.

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Explore more than 4,000 continuously updated, on-demand video courses across 75 categories in business, technology, design, and more to learn anytime, anywhere. All courses are taught by world-class instructors and, best of all, you can feel good knowing that the content is fresh. Courses are updated or replaced monthly with new material on emerging topics, so learners develop skills in the most relevant, in-demand areas. 
Give Yourself Some “Me Time.” Work-life balance hasn’t been overlooked in this content collection. Discover hundreds of courses for personal enrichment, whether it’s learning a new language, tapping into your creative side, or exploring ways to be happy and healthy.  

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We are excited to announce that through your library card, you now have access to Flipster!

Put in your barcode where it says Patron ID, and you can read 25 different magazines, including: Time, People, Consumer Reports, and Pioneer Woman.

When using the App, search for Seneca Library District.
Do NOT sign in.  Under the blue sign in, click on Patron ID Login and enter your library barcode number.

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Yearbooks

ECC & St. Marys Area yearbooks are digitized!
The library had the ability to digitized the yearbooks and worked with both of the high schools to get as many of the years done as possible.
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They are available online here: https://bit.ly/3h20TnQ

ECC 1926 - 2018
SMAHS 1940 - 2017 (missing 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945)

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Daily Live-Stream List
Broken down by date and time... classes, art, dance, storytimes, you name it...it's on this list!  Many of the videos are saved, in case you miss it!

There is a tab at the top for other activities, adults, and teachers.  The list is being maintained by a school librarian.

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Entertainment

"Extraordinary Measures": connecting with you through the orchestra's sound, spirit and passion.  
Excerpts from past concerts.
Make Time for Music with Fiddlesticks! (for children ages 3-8 and their families)
​Practice! Practice! Practice! (tips and techniques from the PSO for Middle and High School instrumental students).

Follow the zoo on Facebook to watch web cams of the animals, including the penguins.

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy conducts a shark storytime every day at 10 a.m.

Digital Escape Rooms
Alice in Wonderland themed escape room!  This escape room was created by Erin Honeycutt, Children's Librarian at Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System in Moultrie, Georgia.   https://forms.gle/P2JyLdvZ7TSRPrdCA

Hogwarts Digital Escape Room created by our friends at the Peter's Township Library in McMurray, PA!​   https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSflNxNM0jzbZJjUq…/viewform…

ebooks

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Special Resources for Libraries as a result of COVID-19

• Audible
  Kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. Explore the collection, select a title and start listening.
  Please visit at: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
• Cambridge Textbooks
  Cambridge University Press is making higher education textbooks in HTML format free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak. Over 700 textbooks, published and currently available, on Cambridge Core are available regardless of whether textbooks were previously purchased. Free access is available until the end of May 2020.
  Please visit at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks
• Community of Learning
  CILC and its content providers have come together to provide core curriculum every day of the week for homebound students in grades K-6th. This service includes free of charge, interactive, live-streamed programs from 9:30am to 3:30pm Eastern time. The programs are delivered by their highly professional content providers. Registration coming soon!

Please register, by Grade Level, by clicking on the button below each section. Once you have registered you will receive a link from Zoom with connection information in it. You also will get a reminder 24 hours before the event and 1 hour before the event.  Attention Educators: It is important for each student to be registered by their parent rather than you. Each sign up generates a unique link to join the program and sharing links can cause issues. Parents will receive the join link in an email from Zoom 1 day before the program, as well as 1 hour before.
Please visit at: https://www.cilc.org/Interactive-Content/Community-of-Learning.aspx

• Scholastic – Learn at Home Website
  Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
  Please visit at:  https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html
• TumbleBooks
  TumbleBooks will make its family of online libraries available for free to all public libraries until at least August 31.
  A collection of animated talking picture books, read-alongs, ebooks, quizzes, lesson plans, and educational games which is used by thousands of schools and public libraries in over 100 countries across the world. 

​K-6 children's ebook database
K-6 math ebook database
​Gr 7-12 ebook database
All ages audio book database
Romance novels for the older crowd