Digital Media Featured Databases (30)
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Over 12,000 ad-free entertaining and educational videos, games, songs, and interactives like Sesame Street, Electric Factory, Reading Rainbow, Baby Einstein and more.
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Over 44,000 unlimited remote access films, documentaries, and how-to-videos. Enjoy titles from Ken Burns, BBC, PBS, HBO and Rick Steves. Note: Access Video on Demand is unable to filter content for patrons with Children's Restricted Cards.
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Listen to over 50,000 recordings from America's past; songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys; songs of Civil Rights, Prohibition, the Civil War, and more.
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Download audiobooks from Overdrive to your PC, Mac, or mobile device. Get the Libby app to borrow on the go.
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A digital literacy resource, for grades preK-3, that pairs animated stories with nonfiction ebooks to build a love of reading. Includes lesson plans for teachers and tips for caregivers
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A comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings offered in streaming format. The Classical Music Library also includes anthology playlists linked to the major music history and appreciation textbooks
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ComicsPlus All Access offers thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga for kids, teens, and adults. A Free Library of Philadelphia card and PIN is required for onsite and offsite use. Mobile app available: LibraryPass.
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ComicPlus Kids has Adventure Time, Bone series, Minecraft, and the Big Nate series and more. Simultaneous use will allow whole-class read-alongs. A Free Library card and PIN is required for onsite and offsite use. Mobile app available: LibraryPass.
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ComicsPlus Teen offers thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga especially for teens. A Free Library of Philadelphia card and PIN is required for onsite and offsite use. Mobile app available: LibraryPass.
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Reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
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Available in a variety of formats, here you will find the Library's Overdrive ebook collection. Get the Libby app to borrow on the go.
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Approximately 17,000 electronic books in all subject areas from careers to classics to Cliffs notes.
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Downloadable ebooks for Free Library of Philadelphia library card holders.
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The Free Library Podcast is an easy way to participate in the author events and lectures that take place at the Central Library. Visit Author Events for upcoming events and information.
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Explore over 500 nonfiction, fully searchable reference titles. Access accurate information on science, literature, history, business, and more.
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The HistoryMakers Digital Archive is the nation's largest African American video oral history collection. It provides high-quality primary source content, with fully searchable transcripts, from thousands of people from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences.
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Input was a local Philadelphia panel discussion program, airing Sunday mornings from 1968 through early 1971
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This resource will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online. This release includes 4,933 albums and 59,860 tracks. It and is growing regularly.
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Access to acclaimed movies, documentaries and kids films. Previous users can reactivate by clicking on "Add your library card" and adding their FLP card credentials. Note: Kanopy is unable to filter content for patrons with Children's Restricted Cards.
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Read and download over 3,000 digital magazines on OverDrive or the Libby app.
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Find and listen to music from a variety of genres
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Ebooks and audiobooks from Overdrive for young readers. Get the Libby app to borrow on the go.
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Descargue libros electrónicos y audiolibros en español para niños, adolescentes y adultos. (Download ebooks and audiobooks in Spanish for kids, teens, and adults.)
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Download ebooks and audiobooks in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, French, and other languages. Get the Libby app to borrow on the go.
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Popluar Music Library contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.
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Access more than 6,300+ newspapers from the US and around the world in 60 languages from 120 countries in image view including the Guardian, Daily Mail, Der Tagesspiegel, Libération, China Daily, and La Razon. List to the articles in audio form and translate them into 20 languages. Download the app and save publications and articles for reading offline. Access the Economist for 24 hour borrowing periods. Mobile app available.
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With an extraordinary array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of streaming music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds, users can listen to performances by American folk icons such as Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger and many more
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TumbleBooks is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. Check out our home user guide
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Popular online encyclopedia for children and teens, including Spanish language content.
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Over 1,000 classic and contemporary films from the U.S and around the world. There are even silent films to enjoy! Note: World Cinema Collection is unable to filter content for patrons with Children's Restricted Cards.
Available to: All Free Library locations and online with your library card.