Digital Library
Digital Borrowing
Your library account gives you instant access to an extensive collection of digital books, movies, TV shows, magazines, and newspapers! Some of these services have apps you can download onto your device and some are available directly from our website. Checkout periods and download restrictions vary by product, and a few require creating an account.
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Digital Books, Audiobooks, & Magazines
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Browse our extensive selection of digital books, audiobooks, and magazines for all ages
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Download the Libby app for easy access to our collections
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Explore our partner libraries' collections to access even more selections of digital books and audiobooks
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Popular titles may have waitlists. Or, check out our Popular eBooks Available Now or the Popular Audiobooks Available Now collection for our no-wait titles!
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Check out up to 10 items at a time and place 12 on hold
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Access to "Extras" through the Libby app: Kanopy, Craftsy, & Ground News
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Check out our "How To Guide" to get started!
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Search the POWER Library e-book collections in one place! This e-resource searches the e-books available in EBSCO E-Books, GALE E-Books, and ProQuest E-Book Central. These collections include over 20,000 e-books and cover a wide variety of subjects.
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POWER Library resource, FREE to use with your Wilcox Public Library card number.
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This collection includes hundreds of e-books from renowned family publisher Cricket Media. It can help build strong literacy skills in students from grades pre-K to 8 by offering digital access to award-winning, short-form fiction and nonfiction titles. This unique e-book collection explores a wide range of subjects to help young readers explore and expand their worlds.
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POWER Library resource, FREE to use with your Wilcox Public Library card number.
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Watch videos and read books about Animals and Nature, Earth and Sky, People and Places, ABC’s and 1, 2, 3’s, Family and Community, Music and Rhyme, Adventure, and more.
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Enjoy read aloud books with words highlighting and interactive games.
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Some films and books are available in Spanish too!
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POWER Library resource, FREE to use with your Wilcox Public Library card number.
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Learn about people, places, nature, history, and science from videos and eBooks on topics such as American Indians, Ancient Civilizations, Farm to Table, The Civil War, Continents, The Thirteen Colonies, U.S. Government, Disasters, Earth Science, Experiments, Extreme Science, Nature, and many more.
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POWER Library resource, FREE to use with your Wilcox Public Library card number.
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Movies & TV
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Stream classic cinema, indie films, documentaries, and content for kids
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Watch Great Courses, BBC programming, Animated Storybooks and PBS Kids!
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To get started, go to Kanopy
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​Click “Add a Library Card”
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Enter your Library Card Number and your PIN, and click continue
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Create your Account (with Google, Apple, or Email)
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You will be logged in to your account and receive 30 tickets.
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Tickets are used to play videos on Kanopy. Each month, you will receive 30 tickets. Your tickets reset on the first day of the month, and unused tickets don't roll over to the next month.
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You can see your remaining tickets for the month in the top-right corner of the homepage.
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Check out this link to Learn More About Tickets
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Newspapers
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The largest historical newspaper database online, contains tens of millions of newspaper pages from 1607 to present. Every newspaper is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy for you to quickly explore historical content. NewspaperARCHIVE.com adds one newspaper page every second - that's over 80,000 images a day!
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Check out the "How to Guide" for basic sign-in information.
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Free eBook Resources
Note: The following sites are not affiliated with the Wilcox Public Library.
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Books to read, books to borrow. The World's classic literature at your fingertips. Over 1,000,000 free ebook titles available.
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Choose from over 40,000 free ebooks. ePub, Kindle, download them or read them online.
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Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit project that produces lovingly formatted, open source, and free public domain ebooks.
