EBooks, Downloadable Media, & Research
Log into LION’s Digital Catalog to Download eBooks and Audio Books!
Phone & Tablet app for Downloadable eBooks, Audio books & Magazines. Libby can also send your library books to your Kindle.
Materials may be borrowed for 14 days.
Materials may be renewed for 14 days if there are no holds on the items.
10 loans at one time
10 holds at one time
researchIT CT is the Connecticut State Library’s FREE research engine for use by libraries, schools, faculty, students, and residents throughout the state.

Discover your family stories. You may need your library card #.


Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
For over 100 years Booklist magazine has assisted thousands of librarians as a book review source, and readers’ advisory, collection development, and professional development resource. Booklist delivers 8,000+ recommended-only reviews of books, audiobooks, and reference sources each year, spanning every age and genre. Available for check out December 2023…
Booklist Online includes an archive from over 25 years of reviews, as well as free content offering the latest news and views on books and media. Now you can read the digital editions of Booklist – online or through a mobile device.
Booklist Reader brings Booklist’s quality reviews, read-alikes, top 10 lists, author interviews directly to patrons digitally as part of our Booklist subscription.
Together these resources offer in-depth coverage of the latest books, new authors, publishers, publishing trends, curriculum standards, award-winners, and more through Top 10s, read-alikes, interviews, feature articles, and classroom activities.

Their vision and purpose is to nurture family, community, and storytelling throughout New England and New York State. We believe that sharing stories creates understanding between people.
Project Gutenberg offers over 50,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.


Poetry Foundation – An independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in American culture.
poets.org – Repository of poetry, daily poems, free email subscription, featured poets and events. Visit or Subscribe to Poem-a-Day.

Digital Galleries
Digital Public Library of America –The DPLA brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.