eBooks, Audiobooks, and Video

  • Libby: Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app. You can even send your borrowed eBooks to your Kindle eReader or Kindle app! Access with your CWMARS library card. Click here for help. 
  • Overdrive: The CWMARS digital catalog offers ebooks, eAudiobooks, and electronic magazines. You can browse our OverDrive collection of ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines on your computer or download the Libby app. Access with your CWMARS library card. 
  • Kanopy: Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries that offers films, TV shows, educational videos, and documentaries. Access with your Meekins Library card. Click here for help. 
  • Hoopla: Your public library at your fingertips. Borrow and enjoy audiobooks, eBooks, comics, movies, TV, magazines, or music everywhere you have a screen. Access with your Meekins Library card. Click here for help.
  • Creativebug: Creativebug offers online arts and crafts video workshops and techniques. Learn how to paint, knit, crochet, sew, screen print, and more! Access with your Meekins Library card.

Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals

  • Boston Globe Article Archive: Full-text article archive from 1980-present. Provided through the statewide database collection. 
  • JSTOR: Full-text articles from hundreds of scholarly journals from the mid-19th century to the early 21st century covering a wide range of subjects, including complete runs of many historical journals. The most recent 3-5 years of current journals are not available in full-text. Access for Boston Public Library eCard Holders.
  • Newsbank: Includes access to the Amherst Bulletin, Berkshire Eagle, Greenfield Recorder, Valley Advocate, and many other local papers. Access with a Meekins Library card.
  • Masslive.com: The general public site for the Springfield Republican.
  • PressReader: Color full-page and article reproductions of thousands of U.S. and international newspapers and magazines. Usually covers the most current 3 months or more. Access for Boston Public Library eCard Holders.
  • Gazette.com: the general public site for the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton MA.
  • Country Journal Archive: Archived issues of the Country Journal. Click to access downloadable PDF files. 
  • Springfield Republican Digital Archive: Explore Springfield history through local news, events, and people with Republican Collection Historical and Current Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online. Access with your CWMARS library card. 

Education & Lifelong Learning

  • Britannica Library Suite: Comprehensive encyclopedia meeting the reference needs for all patrons from students, to business professionals and lifelong learners. Offers adult and kids interface. Includes a dictionary, thesaurus, videos, images, primary sources, and e-books. Provided through the statewide database collection.
  • Credo Reference: Full-text searchable articles and entries from hundreds of sources, including general and subject-specific encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other books covering a wide range of topics. Access for Boston Public Library eCard Holders.
  • Gale Database Collection: List of all Gale databases. Includes cross-searchable products. Covers a wide variety of subjects including: business, vocations and careers, cooking and nutrition, home improvement, gardening and horticulture, criminal justice, psychology, science, hospitality and tourism, religion and philosophy, war and terrorism, and more. Provided through the statewide database collection. 
  • Live Lingua: This project is the internet's largest collection of free public domain language learning materials. It hosts thousands of free ebooks, audios and videos for over 130 languages from around the world. 
  • Merriam-Webster Online: Find definitions for over 300000 words from the most authoritative English dictionary. Continuously updated with new words and meanings.
  • PebbleGo: PebbleGo is a kid-friendly, searchable database and digital library designed for elementary students to explore various topics like animals, science, biographies, social studies, and health. Provided through the statewide database collection.
  • Peterson's Test Prep: Free test prep software. Get ready for an exam, explore career options, or prepare for US citizenship. Provided through the statewide database collection.
  • Peterson's Career Prep: Accommodates job seekers at all levels, whether they’re entering the workforce for the first time or searching for new opportunities. Provided through the statewide database collection.
  • Transparent Language: A language learning platform offering interactive courses in over 120 languages. Provided through the statewide database collection.

Literature & Art

  • Creativebug: Creativebug offers online arts and crafts video workshops and techniques. Learn how to paint, knit, crochet, sew, screen print, and more! Access with your Meekins Library card.
  • NoveList Plus: NoveList Plus is a readers' advisory database created by librarians and educational experts that helps users find books based on their reading preferences. It provides a wide range of features, including read-alike recommendations, genre browsing, and information on book series. Access with your CWMARS library card.
  • Project Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. Focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. 
  • HathiTrust: HathiTrust Digital Library is a large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries. Read public domain and open access titles for free. 

Historical Resources

  • American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) Online Reading Room: The AAPB is a national effort to digitally preserve and make accessible historically significant public radio and television programs created over the past 70+ years. 
  • American Journeys: American Journeys contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
  • Digital Commonwealth: This site provides access to photographs, manuscripts, books, audio recordings, and other materials of historical interest that have been digitized and made available by libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies from across Massachusetts. 
  • Founders Online: Correspondence and other writings of six major shapers of the United States: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison. Over 171,000 searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative Founding Fathers Papers projects.
  • Open Vault: WGBH Media Library and Archives Digital Library.
  • USA Photographs 1935-1945: 170,000 images created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information.
  • Meekins Geneology Resources: Looking for genealogy resources? Visit our Geneology Resouces page.
  • Meekins Local History Collection: Looking for local history information? Visit our Local History page.