E-books & Audiobooks
OverDrive
It's your entire library catalog, right in your pocket! Thousands of e-books, videos, and music to download right on the web with computers or mobile devices.
Libby
This is the same as Overdrive, but made sleek and easy to use as an app on mobile devices.
Online Career Advancement and Personal Fullfilment Courses
Gale Courses
A wide range of highly interactive, instructor led online courses. Free to use with your library card. Courses run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month. Easy to enroll, drop, and complete courses on your own schedule.
Gale Presents: Udemy
More than 6,000 high-quality, on-demand video courses taught by world-class instructors across 75 categories such as business, technology, design, well-being, the arts, langauges, and more. Free to use with your library card.
Gale Presents: Peterson's Career Prep
Resume and cover lettter building tools, digital tests and career prep resources, and access to job searching tools, as well as in-depth information on colleges and universities, and much more. Free to use with your library card.
Databases & Research
Online Information Resources
Compiled resources through the SCLS system. Archived newspapers, encyclopedias, tutorials, geneaology, books and authors.
BadgerLink
From personal interest to educational research, BadgerLink provides Wisconsin residents with licensed trustworthy content not available from free search engines.
Reference Resources
Library of Congress compilation of resources.
Ancestry Library
Genealogy information, including census data, passenger lists, and more.
Literature Resource Center
Information about authors and their works.
Novelist Plus
Book reviews, annotations, etc., for over 250,000 fiction and nonfiction titles.
Book-alikes
Let us help you find new reads based on the ones you already like.
WorldCat
Access materials outside of our library system. Made possible by the South Central Library System. Items available via WorldCat may be requested for you by a librarian. If you do not find what you are looking for through WorldCat ask us anyway - we may still be able to find it for you!
Help
For any assistance with navigating these websites or downloading the e-books and transfering them onto your e-readers, please give us a call at 608-985-7323 during our open hours, and we can walk you through the steps over the phone.