Our Collection

The Reading list for:

Snyder-Girotti Elementary School
Bristol Junior High School

Print and Audio-Visual Resources

Books

• hardcover and paperback
• graphic novels
• large print
• Spanish language titles
• young adult titles
• board books, easy readers,
  and other children's titles

• Ask Here PA is a service for Pennsylvania residents, Pennsylvania students, and/or Pennsylvania-related questions. The service is designed to provide fast answers to your questions, using information found on the Internet and in proprietary databases funded by libraries. In most cases, Ask Here PA librarians will provide an answer online in 15 minutes or less! If your question involves lengthy research, we'll get you started and/or provide a referral for you or your question.
  
  
• Online indexes and databases available at the Grundy Library: (Note: Remote use for these online products is limited to patrons of The Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library only.  Databases provided by the Bucks County Community College only available in the library)
  • Literature Criticism Online: Literature Criticism Online is designed to provide easy access for readers of all ages and skill levels. Beginning-level users may simply enter an author or title and find a wealth of content, while experienced researchers may broaden or narrow their results via cross-searches on names of critics, journal titles, topics and more. The 10 individual Thomson Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.
    
  • Newsbank: The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community.Paid ads are excluded. Full-text articles from The Philadelphia Inquirer (1981-present), The Bucks County Courier Times (Nov 2002-present), and The Intelligencer (Nov 2002-present) as well as other American newspapers.
    
  • Newsbank: America's GenealogyBank: Quickly find your ancestors in over four centuries of rare documents and records. Search thousands of historical newspapers, books, pamphlets and genealogies. Plus, the complete American State Papers, U.S. Serial Set, Social Security Death Index and more than 23 million obituaries.
    
  • Newsbank: America’s Obituaries & Death Notices: A searchable archive of obituaries drawn from U.S. newspapers.
    
  • Newsbank: The Historical Philadelphia Inquirer: The Historical Philadelphia Inquirer contains full text issues spanning June 1834 through December 1844, resuming in July 1860, and continuing through December 1922.
    
  • The Reader's Advisor ONLINE: The Reader's Advisor Online provides readers with helpful assistance to identify books of interest. It provides suggested reading lists based on a variety of topics including award winners, genres, author read-a-likes, series, time periods, characters, and more.
    
  • Access NewspaperARCHIVE: contains tens of millions of searchable newspaper pages, dating as far back as the 1700s. It is your gateway to searching and reading historical newspapers online. Search for full-text articles from a wide selection of U.S. and foreign newspapers including Bucks County Courier Times (1966-1977) and Bucks County Gazette (1873-1915).
    Content on Access NewspaperARCHIVE is a unique primary resource, as newspapers provide information as news happened and not necessarily the way it was remembered. Visit www.newspaperarchive.com to search millions of historical newspapers from your home computer.(Note: in library use only)
  • Foundation Directory Online Professional: a fully indexed database offering information on more than 96,000 foundations, corporate donors, and grantmaking public charities; over 1.5 million recent grants; more than 480,000 trustee, officer, and donor names; over half a million IRS 990s. (Note: in library use only)
    
  • Foundation Grants to Individuals Online: provides information on close to 8,000 foundation and public charity programs that fund students, artists, researchers, and other individual grantseekers. (Note: in library use only)
• Wilson Web: Provided by Bucks County Community College, includes
• Biographies Plus Illustrated
  Coverage dates:  Ancient times to present
  Making this the first stop for any biographic inquiry, Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated includes in-depth, full-text profiles, with more than 32,000 photographs of the subjects, plus up-to-date bibliographies. With coverage of newsmakers and figures of prominence from a wide range of fields, it encompasses biographical coverage from a host of high quality Wilson biographical resources, including Current Biography, the World Authors Series, and the Junior Authors & Illustrators series. In addition, Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated includes over 65,000 profiles licensed from a number of respected reference publishers.
• Education Full Text
  Coverage dates: Indexing 1983+, Abstracting 1994+, “select” Full Text 1996+
  Full text articles with page images, plus abstracts, indexing—and more coverage than any competing database!
  Education Full Text brings you comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles, with indexing cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a one-stop source for research. Coverage includes about 79 journals (37 with full text) not covered by ERIC’s CIJE. Included are up-to-date subject headings keeping pace with today’s changing issues and terminology. Graphical content also adds a key dimension to research—PDF page images accompany full text articles, offering both words and images.
• LexisNexis Academic: Provided by Bucks County Community College, Lexisnexis Academic gives access to over 6,000 news, business, and legal sources. The outstanding news coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations® service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.
  
• EBSCOHost Research Databases: Provided by Bucks County Community College, MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
• Safari Books Online: Provided by Bucks County Community College, Safari Books Online is the electronic reference library that delivers expert content from the world's most trusted leaders in technology publishing to professionals worldwide. Safari offers the combined collections from O'Reilly Media, John Wiley & Sons, Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press, Adobe Press, lynda.com and many more top publishers in one fully searchable database. IT, software developers, web designers, system administrators and creative pros use Safari as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning and certification training.
  
  
• Some of the online indexes and databases available online through the Bucks County Library Network
  
  
  • AutoRepair Reference Center: Complete automotive repair information, as published by Chilton, through POWERLibrary.
  • Ancestry Library Edition: Ancestry Library edition is one of the most important genealogical collections today and is a complement of HeritageQuest Online. This collection of 4,000-plus databases and 1.5 billion names extensively covers U.S. and U.K. census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas.
  • HeritageQuest: An online genealogical database for searching U.S. federal census records, family and local histories, directories, church records, tax lists, and more.
  • Learn-a-Test: Learn-a-Test provides practice tests with unique test preparation study material designed to help students and adult learners succeed on academic or licensing tests. Immediate scoring, complete answer explanations and individualized analysis of results are also provided.
  • Morningstar: Research over 30,000 stock and mutual funds and ETFs. Build and analyze an investment portfolio, learn about stocks, mutual funds, and portfolios.
  • NetAdvantage: Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is a comprehensive source of business and investment information, offering on-line access to popular Standard & Poor's research products such as Industry Surveys, Stock Reports, Corporation Records, The Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, The Outlook, Mutual Fund Reports among others.
  • NetLibrary: A collection of books available to read online. Choose from the POWERLibrary menu below for access to a netLibrary subscription.
  • POWERLibrary: Databases for children and adults. POWERLibrary provides access to thousands of full text periodical articles, a major encyclopedia, photographs, pictures, charts, maps, reference materials, and more.
    
    
• World Wide Web sources