eResources

Start a family tree and search 4 billion historical records including: census & voter lists, birth, marriage & death records, military service records, immigration & travel, land ownership, maps, photographs and public member family trees. If you are just getting started, you can find instruction and webinars to help you. This eResource is available in the Main Library in Blue Bell only.

Please CLICK HERE for help using Ancestry.com.

Find ratings of local service companies, including auto repair shops, plumbers, veterinarians, banks, doctors, dentists, carpet cleaners, etc. You can read the current issues and find guides to health plans, hospitals and top doctors (rated both by other doctors and by patients). NOTE: Remote access now available to WVPL card holders from home or office!

Please CLICK HERE for a full listing of Delaware Valley Consumer’s Checkbook Index of Published Reports.

Research the arts, biography, education, environment, history, law, literature, medicine, nation and world, religion, science and social science, and technology through 91 reference eBooks.  Great for assignments on topics like: American History, World War I & II, Ancient Greece & Rome, the Middle Ages, Holocaust, clothing, immigration, inventors, climate change, sports biography, animal rights, drugs and alcohol, crime, and diseases.

Login using your WVPL library card barcode and look for the orange HELP link in the middle of the page.

NOTE: Access to this eRESOURCE is limited to WVPL card holders or Internet computer users in the Blue Bell or Ambler libraries.

Find biographical information on authors and literary criticism of their works for research papers.

Please CLICK HERE for help using Literature Criticism Online.

Morningstar Investment Research Center provides expert reports, data, and opinions on over 14,500 stocks, 24,800 mutual funds, 1,500 exchange-traded funds and 700 closed end funds.  Designed for library users, it offers free monthly webinars, extensive help files, and investor education tutorials.

Login with your WVPL library card, select "Help and Education" in the grey band.  For troubleshooting, select the link at the bottom of the page.  

Over 6,300 eAudio books for your iPod, MP3 player, smartphone or tablet computer. Download the app to use on a tablet computer or smart phone. 

Please CLICK HERE for help using Overdrive eAudio Books.

Read the current issue or search full text articles from 1981-present.

Connects you to many eResources including: Auto Repair Reference Center (search for your vehicle and you will find: repair information, lists of recalls, diagrams, maintenance intervals, specifications, labor times and diagnostic information); Associated Press Images; eBooks on EBSCOhost (currently non-fiction eBooks, fiction eBooks will be added in 2012); Consumer Heath Complete (full text, searchable database that includes: evidence-based reports, encyclopedias & Reference Books, Fact Sheets & Pamphlets, News, Drug & Herb Information, Alternative Sources, Images & Diagrams and Videos & Animations on health related topics), InfoTrac Newsstand (full-text, searchable local, national and international newspaper database); child friendly searchable magazine database Sirs Discoverer and many other resources.

Please CLICK HERE for troubleshooting tips on accessing the resources of the Power Library. For help using the individual databases within the POWER Library, look for links to Help, Support or Tutorials once you have opened up a particular resource. Often you will find these links in the upper-right corner or somewhere on the bottom of the page. For further assistance please send email to reference@wvpl.org or call 215-643-1320 x 19.

Your child can watch and listen to a large collection of animated, online story books. There is also a large collection of audio books, including ones in French and Spanish. Tumblebooks also has book related puzzles & games. 

Please CLICK HERE for help using Tumble Book.