Why is this list so much shorter? What happened?
As of July 1st, Massachusetts residents lost access to 21 databases due to cuts in federal funding. Lean more on the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners’ webpage on Federal Funding at Risk.
A Memorial Hall Library card provides access to the databases below. Additional resources are available from the Boston Public Library. For help, contact the Reference Desk at 978-623-8430.
This online book contains over 8000 entries that record first happenings, discoveries, and inventions in American history. Best used with the keyword search function or by following links within its expanded contents. A print edition can be found at the library.
Borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone.
The Hoopla Instant collection has hundreds of thousands of titles and are always available—nothing ever needs to be put on hold.
There are also a handful of high-demand titles in our Hoopla Flex collection. Borrowing an ebook or audiobook from Hoopla Flex works similarly to borrowing one on Libby/OverDrive. If an item is marked as available, you can check it out immediately. You’ll have the ebook or audiobook for 14 days with the option to renew provided there are no holds on the item. If someone has borrowed the item you want, you can place it on hold. When the hold is ready, you’ll have 72 hours to check it out before it goes to the next person. If you want, you can enable automatic checkout in Settings.
Memorial Hall Library card holders can borrow up to 8 items per month from the Hoopla Instant collection and have up to 2 items borrowed at the same time from Hoopla Flex.
Use Libby to access eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines in the MVLC OverDrive collection.
Download the app …
… or visit libbyapp.com. The same titles are available at mvlc.overdrive.com.
You can borrow up to 5 items at a time and have up to 10 holds at a time from the MVLC OverDrive collection.
You can borrow content from other partner libraries, too! Use the “Add a Library” function in Libby or look for the dropdown menu at the top of the OverDrive website.
Magill’s Medical Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders. This is the online version of the five-volume print set, which can be found in the library.
O’Reilly for Public Libraries is a digital library of books, videos, and audiobooks on technology and business by major publishers. Included are 50,000+ books—including pre-release titles—30,000 hours of videos and on-demand courses, and more than 3,000 audiobooks. Although access is unlimited, titles cannot be downloaded for offline use and require an always-on internet connection.
Note that O’Reilly for Public Libraries is a rebranding and expansion of the service formerly known as Safari Tech Books Online.
Actually two online books — one covering the Colonial Era to the Civil War, the other from 1860 to the present — The Value of a Dollar gives the costs of thousands of items at various points in history as well as how much money people had to buy them at the time. Each section contains currency conversion tables. Both volumes are available in print at the library.
