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To login to the Oil Creek Library District’s digital branch on OverDrive, click on Sign In in the top right corner of the digital branch home page.
On the next screen, choose Franklin Public Library from the drop down menu.
When asked for your library card number, you’ll need to add two zeros to the beginning of your Franklin Public Library card (seven digit numbers are required). Leave the PIN blank.
For more instructions on how to use OverDrive, please view this post.
Other Resources
Other District Libraries
Mengle Memorial Library (Brockway)
Rebecca M. Arthurs Memorial Library (Brookville)
Clarion Free Library
Cooperstown Public Library
Foxburg Free Library
Knox Public Library
Oil City Public Library
Redbank Valley Public Library
Punxsutawney Memorial Library
Reynoldsville Public Library
Eccles-Lesher Memorial Library (Rimersburg)
Summerville Public Library
Sykesville Public Library
The AccessPA POWER Library provides access to thousands of full text periodical articles, newspapers, a major encyclopedia, plus photographs, pictures, charts, maps, and reference materials for people of all ages. For more information on what is included and a quick guide to searching, view this brochure: PA POWER Library Resources 2011.
To login and use the AccessPA POWER Library, use the Power Library Code pl2210 plus your seven digit Franklin library card number.
For example: pl22100012345
HeritageQuest Online provides a unique and growing collection of research materials for genealogists and historians. It includes the digitized UMI Genealogy & Local History Collection, 1790-1930 U.S. Federal Census, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI), the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, the Freedman’s Bank records and Private Relief Actions, and Memorials and Petitions from the Lexis Nexis® U.S. Serial Set.
If you are not at the library, you will need to login in order to use HeritageQuest Online. To login, add the code “pl2210″ to the front of your seven digit Franklin Public Library card number.
For example: pl22100012345
AccessPA is an online, searchable catalog of 2,900 different Pennsylvania libraries of all types. If the Franklin Public Library doesn’t have something you need, you might search AccessPA to see if another library has the item, then request it through Franklin Public Library’s Interlibrary Loan (ILL) system. For more help using AccessPA, click here.
AccessPA does not require a login.
The Franklin Public Library’s Grant Resource Center is a cooperating collection of the Foundation Center. We help rural northwest Pennsylvania’s nonprofit organizations, churches, and government agencies research and write winning grant proposals. We also help individual students, artists, writers, and researchers find grant money to support their work.
To login to the Foundation Directory Online (FDO) database and the Foundation Grants to Individuals (FGI) database, you must come to the library and have a librarian log you in on our computers. You can stop by anytime the library is open, or call to make an appointment for one-on-one assistance. No library card is required.
Ask Here PA is a free, instant chat service that connects you with a librarian. No special software required. Just click on the button, enter a screen name, an email address, and a question. A librarian will be with you shortly.
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