Electronic Books

eBooks are easy to use and are accessible from any location — your library, home or office. You can search every word in every eBook available to you, as well as search within a particular eBook. Plus, each eBook is embedded with the American Heritage Dictionary of the American Language (4th ed.).

Connect to netLibrary

If you have a library card from just about any Massachusetts public or school library, go to this web page to login:
http://mblc.state.ma.us/cgi-bin/remote.pl?db=netlibrary

Search for books by author, title, subject, keywords, and/or publisher. Most Massachusetts borrowers have access to the full text of several thousand "free" eBooks.

If your library provides the Check Out and Download feature for eBooks, you will see a "Check Out & Download this eBook" link on the eBook Details page. If you do not see the link for any of your library's eBooks, your library does not provide the feature and you may only view books online. Contact your library if you have questions.

If you are able to check out a book, you may have it for a fixed amount of time (usually 24 hours). When done with a book you've checked out, kindly remember to "check in" the book, so that others may access it. (If you forget, that's okay: the book will be returned automatically at the end of your borrowing period.)

Lastly, remember to visit your friendly SABES Regional Support Center in person! We'd love to see you.

Access to the netLibrary service has been made available by the Boston Public Library Statewide Reference and Referral Center, funded by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.