Adams County Library System

Reminder!

All system libraries will be closing at 5:00 on Thursday, April 18th for the Board of Trustees Annual Dinner Meeting.

Libraries will re-open on Friday, April 19th for regular hours.

Just a reminder!

The Gettysburg Library will be closed on Sunday, March 31st for Easter!

Due to deteriorating conditions, the library system is closed today.

Stay safe, warm and dry!

Looking for information on the countries of the world?  Planning a trip to a foreign land?  Global Road Warrior is the resource for you!

The database features more than 8 million words of editorial content, over 6,500 color photos and 1,575 maps, all presented in a consistent 92-category framework for each country. Topics include society and culture, travel essentials, business culture, communications and more. Created by an international team of researchers, cartographers and writers, the database is continually updated.

Global Road Warrior is proving valuable to multiple educational disciplines and promotes cross-cultural understanding through comparative studies. Business people engaged in international trade, students researching country reports and patrons planning international travel all will find what they need within this site.

You simply need to use your library card # and pin for access.

The library is closed this evening due to the weather.  Stay safe!

Do you listen to audio books?  Have you tried downloading audio books from our online resource?

OneClickdigital offers:

• OneClickdigital Media Manager available for both PC and Mac

• All titles are compatible with all popular listening devices, including the iPod

• Faster content transfers, even with our higher-quality files

• iPhone app available (Droid and Windows 7 apps coming soon!)

• Easy to view and browse content without an account or signing in

• Refined Search makes it easy to find titles by series, author, narrator, or publisher

All system libraries will be closed today due to the weather.

Stay safe, everyone!

Kids InfoBits is like having two databases in one to serve the diverse needs of two groups of young students — those in kindergarten through grade two and the more research-savvy students in grades three through five.

Younger students often can’t narrow their topic to a single word or phrase; or, if they can, may have trouble spelling it. Kids InfoBits addresses this from the first screen with a lively, icon-rich topic tree that enables children to click on it and drill down from a broad topic to a narrowly-focused one. Not only does this simplify research, it also helps students visualize the research process.

Upper elementary students may opt for the subject search functionality of Kids InfoBits. After they enter a keyword or phrase they access the results page that tabulates the information they need by source type from the following:

• Reference
• Magazines
• Newspapers
• Maps, Flags and Seals
• Charts and Graphs
• Images

Kids InfoBits meets the needs of young students with simple, quick access to curriculum-related information on current events, arts, sciences, health, people, government, sports, history and more.

Do stories of pirates on the high seas or devastating earthquakes in faraway lands ever send you reaching for an atlas? Have you ever dreamed of traveling cross-country or heading abroad? Do you dabble in genealogical research? Or desperately need a way to engage your middle-schooler in his or her homework?

Then check out:

AtoZ Maps Online consists of more than 145,000 maps—static maps, animated maps, real-time maps, scientific maps, and historic maps—all in one place. Royalty-free. Students, teachers, library patrons, and administrators may use images freely in non-commercial applications, with most of the maps available for download in jpg, tiff, and PDF formats.