Boundless App Update

Due to the unexpected closure of Baker & Taylor, the Boundless platform and app are being discontinued.  The eRead Illinois collection of e-books and e-audiobooks will transition to a new platform offering the same great titles plus new enhancements.  For complete details, please visit our Library News page.

Digital Library

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EBSCO eBooks Diversity & Ethnic Studies Collection

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This groundbreaking collection includes over 6,000 high-quality e-books on the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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EBSCO eBooks High School Collection

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Give students, educators, and administrators on-the-go access to popular e-books. This robust collection includes a selection of classic literary works, important historical documents, and general reference materials.

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EBSCO eBooks K-5 Collection

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This multidisciplinary collection offers unlimited access to thousands of juvenile fiction and non-fiction e-books.  These e-books support a quality learning experience for K-5 students across a wide range of academic subjects.

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EBSCO eBooks Public Library Collection

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Access to high-quality e-books covering a wide range of topics such as self-help, fitness, games, hobbies, and cooking. This general reference collection features titles for both adults and juveniles, as well as best-selling and recommended titles from leading publishers.

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ERIC: Education Resources Information Center

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Index of journal articles, books, theses, curriculum guides, conference papers, standards, and guidelines on a wide range of education topics. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.

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Explora Public Library

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Explora provides easy-to-use features and reliable content from the world’s leading magazines and reference books, grouped into easy-to-browse categories.

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Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition

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Provides researchers, allied health professionals, nurses, and medical educators access to scholarly journals on many medical disciplines. Provides indexing, abstracts, and full text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals, many of which are peer reviewed.

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History Reference Center

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Covering topics in U.S. and world history from the earliest civilizations through the 21st century, this database contains full-text journals, magazines, reference books and thousands of primary source documents.

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History Reference Center eBook Collection

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A companion to the History Reference Source database, this contains a rich selection of historical titles, covering global topics from the ancient world through today.

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Illinois Digital Archives

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Illinois Digital Archives is a repository for the digital collections of the Illinois State Library as well as other libraries and cultural institutions in the State of Illinois. The Archives include photos, documents, and more about Illinois history. (No library card required!)

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Inkie.org for Writers

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Inkie.org is a suite of resources - available to everyone in Illinois at no charge - that supports local authors with online creation and publishing tools and allows readers to access locally produced content.

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LearningExpress

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Help patrons and students learn the fundamentals of computers, the internet and popular software applications a user-friendly e-learning platform that contains more than 100 selfpaced video tutorials.

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Legal Source

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A scholarly resource of current issues, studies, and trends of the legal world. For attorneys, educators, businesspeople, law librarians, students, and paralegals.

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LGBTQ+ Source

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LGBTQ+ Source is the definitive database for LGBTQ+ studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines, newspapers, and videos. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.

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Libby

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The Alliance Digital Media Library has bestsellers, the latest titles, and more available to borrow as eBooks, digital audiobooks, and magazines. Read or listen on the Overdrive platform or the Libby mobile app. You may need to wait for popular titles. Library card required.
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LinkedIn Learning for Libraries

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LinkedIn Learning for Libraries provides public library patrons with unlimited, cost-effective access to great content from Lynda.com plus courses offered in English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, and Portuguese — onsite or offsite.
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Literary Reference eBook Subscription

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Contains a broad range of literary-related subjects with selections including literary criticism, study guides, and classics such as Emma, Dracula, and Frankenstein.

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Literary Reference Source

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The Literary Source is a full-text database that combines information from thousands of major respected reference works, books, and literary journals as well as original content from EBSCO Publishing.

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