Using the Library Online

Check our library catalog or
Go directly to your account.
You can also call us at 301.891.7259 for reserves and renewals.

Browse approximately 2,000 magazines, including full text articles from about 700 of them.

Try eLibrary for free access to articles from hundred of newspapers, magazines, transcripts and reference materials. (Includes the Washington Post)

Follow what we are doing at the desk. Search for Takoma Park information from many sources.

Also available online to library cardholders:

Issues & Controversies is produced by Facts on File and has background information for many current points of debate.

The World News Digest day by day, year by year, great source of news.

Booklist is published by the American Library Association and includes thousands of book reviews.

Career Guidance Center

Health Reference Center

American History exploration from Facts on File. Check out the extra features on citation, plagerism, and how to use primary as well as secondary documents.

Lots of Reference Books (You can download articles as text or mp3 files)

Online Fiction (and a little non-fiction):

Learning Languages:
Mango and Little Pim for practicing 34 languages.

A note on online resources: Cardholders have free access to the above resources as well as the full text of newspaper and magazine articles from home, work or school.

Please remember that these are copyrighted materials and you must use them accordingly, just as you would print materials from our library.

Using the Library Online

Also available online to library cardholders:

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