Explore the Commonwealth eBook Collections

The Commonwealth eBook Collections are brought to you by the Massachusetts Library System in partnership with the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and your local library, funded, in part, by the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. The collection includes eBooks and other media from our partners, BiblioLabs, EBL, and Baker & Taylor.

Axis 360 provides popular eBooks and audiobooks and full-color children’s books. You will need a valid CLAMS library card and a pin number to check out and download books. Books may be downloaded to a variety of tablets and other devices. 

To get Axis 360 books for your tablet or smartphone, read these instructions.

For Axis 360 eBooks with eReader devices (including Windows-based laptops and desktops, the original Nook family, Kobo, Sony Readers and other ebook-only devices). Please note that Axis 360 eBooks are incompatible with e-ink Kindles.

Here is your access to all the information and study resources of the World Book Online. Just log in, from the library or from home, using your Edgartown library card number.

Looking for more information? Try visiting the online edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, made available by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

Need Legal Advice? Can't Afford a Lawyer?
This New Service Might Help You

Massachusetts now has a new resource for low income people who need help with civil (non-criminal) legal problems -- Mass Legal Answers Online, www.masslao.org.

Low-income Massachusetts residents can create an account on the secure website, then log in and post their legal questions. Volunteer lawyers answer the questions through the same website.  There is no charge to use this service. People can access the site from anywhere that they have internet access, including smart phones -- and including our public computers at the Edgartown Library.  All information is confidential.

Mass Legal Answers Online is part of the national Free Legal Answers project sponsored by the American Bar Association, and is being managed in Massachusetts by the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute with the assistance of the Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association.

Online: Research Your Ancestry

The Edgartown Library provides in-building access to one of the most powerful genealogical tools now available on the Internet. Just sit down at one of our public computers (or bring your laptop and sign into our wireless network) -- and visit the Ancestry Library service.

Need a Meeting Room?

We have three meeting room spaces, as well as two study rooms available for patrons and non-profit organizations. To book a meeting room, please click here to be directed to our online request form. If you would like to book one of our study rooms, please call the library at 508-627-4221 and speak with a staff member.

Global Road Warrior

With your Edgartown Library card and PIN, you can access Global Road Warrior, a massive database of information on some 175 nations around the world. This service provides deep content coverage in major topic areas of society and culture, travel, communications, business, trade, marketing, and security. Information covered includes: etiquette (greetings & courtesies, ethics, meetings, attire), society and culture (gift giving, food, media, time & punctuality), travel tips (money & banking, transportation) and more. This service is free to you as an Edgartown Library patron.

Online: Learn a Language

Ready to learn a new language? Try this new service, Mango.

The Edgartown Library has also subscribed, for all our patrons, to Mango's Little Pim, a language learning program for children ages 0 to 6.

Job Help @ glassdoor.com

A comprehensive career resource with information on thousands of companies. Glassdoor includes salary and bonuses and details for specific jobs at specific companies, as well as actual interview questions and hiring process details. Also included are reviews written by employees that highlight the pro's and con's of working for a particular employer.

 Glassdoor.com gives you an inside look at reviews, interview questions, and salary information for thousands of companies.

For more job search resources, visit these pages of the state library databases.

Printing, Scanning & Faxing

When you print to or copy from our network color printer the fee is 25 cents per page. We can send or receive fax documents for you for a fee of $1 per page. We can also scan a document into digital form and email it for a fee of $1 per page.

We offer these services as a courtesy -- but please remember, we're a public library and not an office printing center. If you have a project that involves a number of pages, we might not be able to help you with it right away. For larger projects, in fact, we would encourage you to visit one of the Island businesses that are specifically equipped for this work.

Library Materials:

The Edgartown Library’s over 40,000 books, magazines, videos and DVDs, audio books and CDs are only the tip of the iceberg – through the CLAMS network, patrons have quick and easy access to the collections of more than 30 member libraries. You can search the CLAMS catalog and request materials online, or talk to any librarian.

If our network doesn’t have the item you’re looking for, the CLAMS website can connect you to the Virtual Catalog service, which searches across Massachusetts. The Edgartown Library can also help you with interlibrary loan requests for materials anywhere in the United States – just ask for help at the front desk.

Reference and Research

Please call or visit the library with your reference question. The library’s reference room has a rich collection of useful books. Your library card is also your ticket into the electronic databases which all Edgartown Library patrons can access for free. These databases connect you with a vast range of materials, from scholarly journals and newspaper archives to financial, medical and scientific information.

To use the databases, LOG ON HERE

You can also use these links as shortcuts to specific resources:

For access to The New York Times.
For the full suite of Gale Reference Databases.
For Academic OneFile.
For Gale World History in Context.
For the Health & Wellness Resource Center.
For the Academic Health Reference Center.
For Gale Science in Context.
 

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