Resources » Books/Literature

AALBC.com maintains a curated and growing collection of over 13,000 titles covering a century of Black writing from around the world.  You’ll find reviews, bestsellers lists, awards, excerpts, publisher information, and more. Readers can discover books grouped by over 1,500 different categories.

All ages audio book database

BiblioBoard features books, articles, images, photographs, maps, pamphlets, and documents as well as streaming audio and video content on a wide variety of topics.  Local Author Collection : This collection represents the best independently published titles submitted by local authors to the SELF-e program, as selected by staff at Library Journal magazine. All content is available on an unlimited multi-user basis with no checkouts or returns. You can access BiblioBoard content from the web or various mobile devices (via the BiblioBoard app) using your library card number.

More than 25 years of recommended print and audiobook reviews, features, interviews, spotlights, and classroom connections.  This resource has been made freely available by the publisher during the COVID-19 crisis.

Download ebooks and eaudiobooks to your computer, phone (Libby app) or MP3 player.   Formerly MyMediaMall.  A service of Overdrive.

More than 3,600 encyclopedias and reference sources. Topics covered: world history and culture, medicine and health, statistics, literature, business and science.

Inkie.org has three main audiences – authors, readers, and libraries.

• The authors section has information on how to create an e-book, including the link to the Pressbooks portal. It also includes information on how to submit an e-book to Indie Illinois and/or Indie Author Project Select and/or the Soon to Be Famous Illinois Author Project.
• The readers section has some general information about the content available to read via BiblioBoard. This page focuses on the independently and self-published materials available on the platform.
• The libraries page has general information for ways in which libraries can support their local authors, as well as a suite of marketing and promotional resources.

Libby is the app used to access ebook and eaudiobook content from the Digital Library of Illinois.  A service of Overdrive.

Full text of the Gale 19th Century, 20th Century and Contemporary Literary Criticism volumes. Thousands of essays and commentaries on contemporary and classic literature.