Library Information

Welcome to Solebury's library. The Founders Library offers the Solebury School community a wide array of resources both on campus and on the web.

If you visit the library in person, the hours are:
Monday & Wednesday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Tuesday & Thursday: 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Friday: 8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Weekend: Opened by arrangement with the weekend duty staff. The "virtual library" is always open.

Solebury School is a member of AccessPA, the statewide program that provides interlibrary loan among its members; and POWER library - Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources.

The collection comprises more than 14,000 items, including reference and video materials; and the Mariella Sundstrom Art History Collection (reference only), housed in the Art Department. The library has more than 70 subscriptions to periodicals and newspapers, including French and Spanish language publications. In addition to POWER library resources, online subscription databases are available through the Solebury network, many accessible from remote computers.

Six computer workstations are located in the library, with 14 workstations located in the adjacent media room. When the computers are not in use by a class, students may use them for research, word processing, and class assignments. These computers are part of the campus WAN, connected to the internet via a T-1 line.

Resources

AccessPA statewide catalog and interlibrary loan

P.O.W.E.R. Library

The P.O.W.E.R. Library may be accessed from home with a valid Pennsylvania public library card www.buckslib.org.

  • EBSCO Periodical and Reference Databases
  • Grove's Dictionaries of Art and Music
  • AccuNet/AP® Multimedia Archive
  • Lit Finder
  • Contemporary Authors
  • SIRS Discoverer
  • netLibrary
  • Oxford Reference Online
  • and more

Grolier Online:

  • Encyclopedia Americana
  • New Book of Knowledge
  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
  • Lands and Peoples Encyclopedia

MagillOnLiteraturePlus

Oxford English Dictionary

The following research databases are available for remote log-in for members of the Solebury community who live off-campus, or on-campus residents and boarding students who are away for vacations. Please see the Solebury librarian for log-in information.