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Dear [Student/Faculty Member],

I would like to take a moment to provide you with some points of interest about Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, a valuable online research tool that you can access in school or at home from the library website. Poetry & Short Story Reference Center contains the following content:

 Nearly 700,000 full-text poems  More than 56,000 full-text short stories  More than 10,000 dramatic works  More than 2,400 audio recordings, including podcasts from The Poetry Magazine  High-quality videos from MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and Academy of American Poets  More than 440 explications of both classic and contemporary poems  More than 1,000 e-books focused on poetry, drama and short stories

Students can search the database by keyword, author, title, poem or short story. In addition, content can be browsed alphabetically by poem, short story, poets and authors, poetic forms and techniques, themes, literary periods and movements. The database also includes:

 Curriculum support materials including lesson plans crafted specifically for use with this database  Text-to-Speech for HTML articles to help struggling readers and those learning English  Rich multimedia — including images, videos and audio recordings — to enhance content delivery and increase student engagement  Personal folders for saving and sharing content

For access to Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, simply go to http://search.ebscohost.com. If you are prompted for a User ID and Password, please use the following:

User ID: ______

Password: ______

Please feel free to contact me directly with any questions about Poetry & Short Story Reference Center or any of the library’s online resources.

Regards,

Last updated 9/6/17