Ebooks & Audiobooks
Featured Resources
| Description | Age | |
|---|---|---|
 | Britannica E-Books Britannica E-Books offers hundreds of downloadable full color and black & white non-fiction e-books for preschool through high school. Download the mobile app at the: Apple App Store. | All |
 | Book Index With Reviews (EBSCOhost) Book Index With Reviews (EBSCOhost) is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 5 million book titles, in a wide range of formats. BIR also contains almost 800,000 full-text searchable book reviews from the sources that you trust: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and others. Download the mobile app from the: Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Watch the tutorial | All |
 | BookBrowse BookBrowse is an online magazine for booklovers - including reviews, previews, “behind the book” backstories, author interviews, reading guides, and much more. Download the mobile app Watch the tutorial | All, Middle School, High School |
 | Book Collection: Nonfiction (EBSCOhost) Book Collection: Nonfiction (EBSCOhost) offers a rich research database for schools that contains informative abstracts and searchable full text for more than 4,100 popular nonfiction books. The database includes full-text entries on core subject areas as well as information on careers, health, sports, adventure, technology, life skills, and more. Download the mobile app from the: Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Watch the tutorial | All |
 | Freegal Music Freegal Music is a free music service that offers access to over 18 million songs and over 40,000 music videos from over 40,000 labels with music that originates from over 100 countries. Build your own playlists, listen to curated playlists, simply enjoy an album, and AI powered search recommendations provide personalized music selections; and it is ad-free. Freegal Music works with almost all computers, tablets, and smartphones. There is no software required to download, and there is no digital rights management (DRM) to worry about. You get 5 weekly downloads (videos count for two) and 3 hours daily of streaming, and downloads are yours to keep. To login, you will need your library card number, and PIN (the PIN is the password to your library internet account). Download the mobile app at the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store or the Amazon App Store. Watch the tutorial | All |
 | Gale eBooks Gale eBooks contains a large collection of e-books on a number of non-fiction topics. Download the mobile app Watch the tutorial | All, Elementary School, Middle School, High School |
 | Hoopla Hoopla offers free access to stream or download movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics, and TV shows using your library card without having to wait. Download the mobile app from the: Google Play Store or Apple App Store or Amazon App Store. Watch the tutorial | All |
 | Libby Libby, previously known as OverDrive, allows you to use your library card to borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and more from your library's digital collection. Download the mobile app Watch the tutorial | All |
 | LOTE4Kids LOTE4Kids is an online database of digital books in World Languages, that allows kids to enjoy the magic of books in LOTE (Languages Other Than English). Each book also comes with English translations to help kids learn languages. LOTE4Kids has over 2,000+ digital picture books in 50+ languages, with new books and languages released each month. Download the mobile app | All, Elementary School |
 | Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) Louisiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of more than 400,000 digital items from Louisiana archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories, making unique historical treasures accessible to students, researchers, and the public in Louisiana and across the globe. The items in the Louisiana Digital Library are as diverse and interesting as the people and places in Louisiana, with photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, oral histories, and more documenting the state’s history and culture. | |
 | Louisiana Library Connection Databases Louisiana Library Connection Databases was established in 1998, it is a collection of online subscription databases chosen to cover the widest range of informational needs, and is provided to the people of Louisiana by the State Library. It also includes many prestigious academic journals for the research professional, and crucial & strategic information for the small business owner and the consumer. The vast majority of these databases are available for remote use, that is, the user can log in from anywhere. This is provided free of charge to all library users in the state of Louisiana, and all that is required for access is a public library card. Download the mobile app Watch the tutorial | All, Elementary School, Middle School, High School |
 | Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is an online library of free eBooks. Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books or eBooks. Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971. His memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related content today. The Beauregard Parish Library is now a mirror site for Project Gutenberg. So when you select an eBook, please choose The Beauregard Parish Library as your mirror site, so that your use will count. Watch the tutorial | All |
 | TeenBookCloud TeenBookCloud is an online collection of ebooks, read-along chapter books, graphic novels, educational videos, audiobooks, and educator resources for middle school and high school. Download the mobile app at the: Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Watch the tutorial | All, Middle School, High School |
 | TumbleBookLibrary TumbleBookLibrary offers interactive storybooks, chapter books, nonfiction, language learning, puzzles, and games for kindergarten through sixth grades. Download the mobile app at the: Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Watch the tutorial | All, Elementary School, Middle School, High School |