How Do I
Books & Literature Research Databases
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You can log into almost all of the databases listed below from outside the library using your library barcode number. If you don't have a library card, you may register for one online.
Please make sure that you are accessing this page via http://www.carnegielibrary.org/ and NOT clpgh.org. Click here to correct.
Those databases specified with "No Remote Access" must be used from a computer inside the library. "Remote Access (CLP Card)" databases are only accessible with a Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) library card. Click here if not a CLP cardholder.
Books
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Access Pennsylvania
On-Line Catalog | Available to Everyone | |||
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Shared catalog for materials owned by most Pennsylvania libraries.
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| ARBAOnline | Library Access |
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American Reference Books Annual online.
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| BookFLIX | Library Access | Remote Access | ||
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Read or listen to children's books online.
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| Naxos Spoken Word Library | Library Access | Remote Access | ||
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Listen to streaming audio of adult and children's classic fiction, non-fiction, plays, and poetry.
You must use the log out button when exiting this database, or future log-ins may be unsuccessful.
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| netLibrary | Library Access | Remote Access* | ||
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Full text electronic books (both text and audio).
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| NoveList | Library Access | Remote Access | ||
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Includes fiction authors, titles and themes. Provides suggestions of books that are similar to those of a particular author or a certain title.
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| Novelist K-8 | Library Access | Remote Access | ||
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Information about more than 38,000 fiction titles of interest to students in grades K-8. Full text reviews from professional journals and book talks for selected titles are available in this database.
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| WorldCat | Library Access |
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Search the holdings of over 9,000 libraries at one time. If you find something that you want, and we don't have it, you can use Interlibrary Loan.
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Literature
| African American Experience | Library Access |
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Full text information on African American history and culture.
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| Contemporary Authors | Library Access | Remote Access | ||
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Biographical and critical articles on current writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures and television.
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| Expanded Academic ASAP | Library Access | |||
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Full-text articles and citations on all topics, from accounting to zoology.
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| Literature Resource Center | Library Access | Remote Access | ||
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Author information, literary criticism and plot summaries for authors from every age and literary discipline.
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| Naxos Spoken Word Library | Library Access | Remote Access | ||
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Listen to streaming audio of adult and children's classic fiction, non-fiction, plays, and poetry.
You must use the log out button when exiting this database, or future log-ins may be unsuccessful.
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| NoveList | Library Access | Remote Access | ||
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Includes fiction authors, titles and themes. Provides suggestions of books that are similar to those of a particular author or a certain title.
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| Salem Literature | Library Access | NO Remote Access | ||
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Searchable literary criticism of selected authors and works. More titles added as they arrive. Current offerings include volumes on Toni Morrison and Jane Austen, and individual works by Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller.
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| Theatre in Video | Library Access |
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Explore 20th-century theatre history via this streaming video database. Contents include the complete BBC Shakespeare performances, live television broadcasts from the 1950s, experimental theatre of the 60s and 70s, important contemporary performances, and theatre documentaries.
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