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LIBRARY E-REFERENCE

These are examples of resources available to you at the Library, or from home with your Boise Public Library card.  Most of the links below will take you to our database pages.

• Good Reads
• Daily Life through History Over 50 titles exploring the unique aspects of life in different countries and time periods.
• Decades in America  Learn about the history, the culture and significant events from 1950 through 1980.
• eBooks & eAudiobooks from OverDrive.
• Gale Virtual Reference Library Over 30 encyclopedias and reference books on a variety of topics for adults and students. Topics include health, wildlife, popular culture, history, geography, small business and more.
• Homework Help
• Learning Express Library Read the study guides and then practice with online tests and tutorials.
• Find magazine or newspaper articles.
• Science in Context  In-depth, curriculum-oriented science database that provides a one-stop resource for all science-related research needs.
• TumbleBooks Enjoy multimedia picture books on your computer at home. A fun way entertain and improve reading skills.
• Click here for more.

BOOKS ONLINE

• Bartleby.com http://www.bartleby.com/ Great books online. Includes classic reference books.
• Feedbooks http://www.feedbooks.com/ Downloadable books. Includes some in the public domain.
• FreeAudio http://www.freeaudio.org/  Free audiobooks.
• International Children's Digital Library Foundation http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
• Librivox http://librivox.org  Free audiobooks.
• Literature Network http://www.online-literature.com/ Searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast.
• The Online Books Page http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ Website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet.
• Open Library http://openlibrary.org/subjects/lending_library Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, and includes a lending library.
• Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org Download books in the public domain.  Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.

MUSIC ONLINE

• Free Music Archive (mp3)  http://freemusicarchive.org/ A curated collection of free downloadable music.
• Library of Congress Digital Music Collection  http://www.loc.gov/topics/content.php?subcat=25  Curated collection featuring MP3s of historically significant musical works.

Last Updated:11/21/2011