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Search our online library catalog with merlin, the shared catalog of 30+ Northern Waters Library System libraries. You can check your library record, renew books, and reserve most items from this catalog with your Koller Library card.
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Wiscat - the catalog for public and academic libraries in the state of Wisconsin. If you can't find what you are looking for in merlin, contact a librarian about requesting items from Wiscat through inter-library loan. |
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Patrons of the Northern Waters Library Service also have access to netLibrary. Our netLibrary collection includes a nice selection of ebooks and you can check out and read on your home computer. Stop in at the Koller Library to register for an account. |
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OverDrive downloadable audio books are now available as a service of the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium. OverDrive allows you to select and download audio books to play directly on your computer, on an MP3 player, or burn to a CD. You will need to install a small program on your computer, the free OverDrive Media Console, in order to use this service, and will need your library card number. Contact a librarian with any questions you may have about this exciting new service. |
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Badgerlink is a service available to all residents of Wisconsin. It contains full text for a large selection of magazines and newspapers, as well as a number of other excellent references. |
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free online resources |
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LibriVox
free online audio books |
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LibriVox volunteers record
chapters of books in the public
domain, and then release the audio
files back onto the net. The
objective is to make all books in
the public domain available, for
free, in audio format on the
internet. The books can be
downloaded as a podcast, onto an
iPod or other portable player, or
burned onto CDs. A totally
volunteer, open source, free
content, public domain project.
Also, check out their links to other
online audio and book projects. |
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Project
Gutenberg is the first and
largest single collection of free
electronic books, or eBooks. Project
Gutenberg tries to make information,
books and other materials available
to the general public in forms a
vast majority of the computers,
programs and people can easily read,
use, quote, and search. They offer
books and other texts that are in
the public domain. |
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Google Book Search
allows you to search the full text
of books to find ones that interest
you and learn where to buy or borrow
them. |
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book recommendations
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| Find out what's new at the Koller Library... or visit one of these book review sites for new ideas.
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ReadingGroupGuides.com - An online community for reading groups
BookBrowse - "A literary feast of exceptional books."
Mostly Fiction - book reviews and more.
Book Reporter - "Where readers and writers click."
LibraryThing - Create your own
"catalog" of books, read and post
book reviews, and get suggestions
based on books you own or have read.
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