Why is this list so much shorter? What happened?
As of July 1st, Massachusetts residents lost access to 21 databases due to cuts in federal funding. Lean more on the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners’ webpage on Federal Funding at Risk.
A Memorial Hall Library card provides access to the databases below. Additional resources are available from the Boston Public Library. For help, contact the Reference Desk at 978-623-8430.
ABCmouse.com’s curriculum is designed to help young children (ages 2–7+) build a strong foundation for academic success. ABCmouse.com is 100% educational, with more than 4,000 learning activities across all major subject areas-reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music.
This article database includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
The databases of the New England Historic Genealogical Society with over 110 million names.
The professional journals of the American Physical Society embody the mission of the society “to advance and diffuse the knowledge of Physics.” This collection includes the following:
Physical Review Letters (PRL) (brief important papers, all topics in physics)
Physical Review A (atomic, molecular, and optical physics)
Physical Review B (condensed matter and materials physics)
Physical Review C (nuclear physics)
Physical Review D (particles, fields, gravitation and cosmology)
Physical Review E (statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics)
Physical Review X (open access articles, all topics of physics)
Physical Review Applied (applied physics)
Reviews of Modern Physics (in-depth articles, all topics in physics)
Physical Review Special Topics – Accelerators and Beams
Physical Review Special Topics – Physics Education Research
The APS Journal Archive (back to 1893)
Search for your ancestors, check U.S. Census Records, Birth/Marriage/Death records, and more. Ancestry Library is the largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy learning materials.
Full-text content from the Andover Townsman newspaper and website since April 2007.
AtoZdatabases includes 30 million business profiles and contact information for 220 million residents. It also includes a component for job searching. This database can be used to find businesses based on employee size, sales volume, type of business and location.
Birds of the World contains 10,721 species accounts of every bird species in the world. BOW merges and enhances content, data, multimedia, figures, and illustrations from four different ornithological volumes: Birds of North America (BNA), Neotropical Birds, Handbook of Birds of the World (HBW Alive), and Bird Families of the World. This content is integrated with multimedia from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Macaulay Library and millions of bird records from eBird.
Find your next great read with this interactive magazine for booklovers.
BookBrowse offers:
Build a love of reading and learning with paired fiction and nonfiction. For grades preK-3. Scholastic BookFlix delivers high-interest, interactive content to engage young readers:
Articles and transcripts from more than 200 news sources covering the Greater Boston area, updated daily. Newspapers include the Boston Herald, Metro Boston, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Lowell Sun, Andover Townsman, Eagle-Tribune, Tewksbury Advocate, Wilmington Advocate, North Andover Citizen and many more.
Contains the Charter and related legislation and the general and permanent By-Laws of the Town of Andover, Massachusetts.
1,000+ Ratings, reviews, expert buying advice, product comparisons, consumer user reviews, and product video clips from ConsumerReports.org.
Creativebug has more than 1,000 award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists. Single and multi-part classes for all ages and skill levels are available in the following areas:
MHL card holders have unlimited access to the classes. Once you’ve logged in with your MHL card number and PIN, you will be prompted to create a Creativebug account by entering an email address and password. Once you’ve created an account, you can log in by visiting Creativebug’s main website (https://www.creativebug.com/) or by revisiting this page and entering your library card number and PIN again, after which you’ll be logged in automatically.
Gale OneFile: Culinary Arts offers a variety of information from major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as book reference content from Delma.
Full-text content from the Eagle-Tribune newspaper and website since 2008.
A comprehensive reference resource with components for students and adults. A dictionary, a thesaurus, multimedia, and primary source materials are included.
FamilySearch.org offers access to genealogical records from over 110 countries, including over 2.4 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records; 742,000 microfiche; 310,000 books, serials, and other formats. FamilySearch.org also contains the catalog of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Research help is available through the Family History Research Wiki, discussion forums, and online free family history courses through the Learning Center. FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries have privileges to some limited-access FamilySearch databases and records. The Affiliate Library collection is only available on-site and do not have all the privileges of a Family History Center. A free individual account is required to use the FamilySearch.org platform. FamilySearch is the largest collection of genealogical and historical records in the world and is the genealogical branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, informally known as the Mormon Church or the LDS Church. For more information, contact rdesk@mhl.org
Access FamilySearch.org Affiliate Library Collection View Tutorial
This online book contains over 8000 entries that record first happenings, discoveries, and inventions in American history. Best used with the keyword search function or by following links within its expanded contents. A print edition can be found at the library.
Foundation Directory Online Professional, a service made available by the Candid information service, helps grantseekers find the right match for their organization’s mission. Get access to more than 140,000 expanded profiles on foundations and corporate donors, information on more than 7 million grants, and more than half a million key decision makers and leaders. 990 and 990-PF forms are keyword searchable.
Note: If you are looking for Foundation Grants to Individuals Online, Candid has incorporated that into Foundation Directory Online Professional. Just check the new box labeled “Include grants to individuals” before performing your search. See https://help.candid.org/s/article/Grants-to-Individuals-Search-in-Foundation-Directory-Professional for details.
Freegal Music+ gives you access to millions of songs, including the entirely of the Sony Music catalog. You can download up to 5 songs each week to keep for personal use and to share with friends and family. You can also stream up 8 hours of music every week, completely ad-free. Use Freegal with their app available for iOS, Android, or Amazon or directly from a web browser.
Focuses on the practical aspects and the scientific theory of horticulture studies. Offers biotechnologists, farmers, hobbyists, and landscape architects access to important content relevant to their pursuits.
Got Resume Builder lets you create a resume in three easy steps:
“Binge-learn” over 250 of the most popular courses taught by the world’s top professors from The Great Courses Library Collection. With hundreds of videos on subjects ranging from photography to physics, astronomy to art, history to health, and everything in between, you’re sure to find courses that interest you. Each lesson is about 30 minutes in length—tune in to test out any lesson or course for the first few minutes, or for as long as you want.
Sign in with your Andover library card to get 7 days of unlimited access. Return as often as you like to get another 7-day pass.
Andover card holders can also access Great Courses videos through Hoopla Digital and Kanopy.
Full text articles focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment.
GuideStar is the world’s largest source of information about nonprofit organizations. With it you can:
Includes the full text and images of forty nursing, allied health and medical journals; consumer health magazines; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books.
This database was formerly known as Health Reference Center Academic.
Mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for grades 9–12 covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. Please see Middle School (Gale In Context) for a similar database for middle school students.
This database was formerly known as InfoTrac Student.
Gale OneFile: Home Improvement places the research of hobbyists and professionals on a solid foundation with articles from more than 200 home improvement-focused titles. Home Improvement covers topics such as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and more.
Borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone.
The Hoopla Instant collection has hundreds of thousands of titles and are always available—nothing ever needs to be put on hold.
There are also a handful of high-demand titles in our Hoopla Flex collection. Borrowing an ebook or audiobook from Hoopla Flex works similarly to borrowing one on Libby/OverDrive. If an item is marked as available, you can check it out immediately. You’ll have the ebook or audiobook for 14 days with the option to renew provided there are no holds on the item. If someone has borrowed the item you want, you can place it on hold. When the hold is ready, you’ll have 72 hours to check it out before it goes to the next person. If you want, you can enable automatic checkout in Settings.
Memorial Hall Library card holders can borrow up to 8 items per month from the Hoopla Instant collection and have up to 2 items borrowed at the same time from Hoopla Flex.
Stream classic cinema, modern movies, award-winning documentaries, and the best of international and independent film through Kanopy.
Tickets are used to play videos. Once you create a free Kanopy account, you’ll receive 24 tickets. On the first of the month each month, unused tickets will go away and be replaced by a new set of 24 tickets.
Ticket costs vary from title to title. For example:
Once you press play on a film, it will be available to watch for 72 hours (in some cases, 48 hours) without required additional tickets. Seasons of TV series are generally available for 14 days, and Great Courses lecture series are typically available for 21 days.
Kanopy can be accessed through a browser by visiting https://mhl.kanopystreaming.com, using a mobile app (iOS, Android, and Amazon Fire) or with various TV apps/channels (Roku, Chromecast, etc.).
Kanopy Kids is Kanopy‘s curated collection of content for children, with a focus on ages 2-8. While in the Kanopy Kids section, you will see only content that is age-appropriate. Using favorite characters from Sesame Street, PBS Kids, Weston Woods, and more, this collection of videos inspire empathy, critical thinking, and self esteem in young viewers. The videos range from entertainment to early literacy to STEM education and foreign language learning.
Kanopy Kids videos do not require tickets and are always available without limits.
Search authoritative periodical content covering topics like organizational dynamics, adult learning, and more. Updated daily.
Use Libby to access eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines in the MVLC OverDrive collection.
Download the app …
… or visit libbyapp.com. The same titles are available at mvlc.overdrive.com.
You can borrow up to 5 items at a time and have up to 10 holds at a time from the MVLC OverDrive collection.
You can borrow content from other partner libraries, too! Use the “Add a Library” function in Libby or look for the dropdown menu at the top of the OverDrive website.
Magill’s Medical Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders. This is the online version of the five-volume print set, which can be found in the library.
Start the conversation in your choice of over 70 world languages and dialects through courses crafted using conversational methodology and delivered through native speaker dialog.
Driver’s permit practice tests and manuals, presented in partnership with Driving-Tests.org. Includes:
Please Note: Driving-Tests.org is not affiliated with or evaluated by the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. The official RMV Driver’s Manual is available on their website, along with additional driver’s education information.
Medici.tv offers the largest catalog collection of classical music, opera, jazz and dance videos. Content includes:
Starting October 2022, you can create an Individual Account while signing in under the library’s account. An Individual Account allows you to save your favorite videos, see your viewing history, and receive Medici.tv’s weekly newsletter. See this slideshow for more information.
Access to Medici.tv is unlimited and can be enjoyed anywhere on any digital device. To enjoy Medici.tv on your mobile device, or to cast your favorite content to your TV screen using Chromecast or AirPlay, download the Medici.tv mobile app by searching for medici.tv EDU in your app store or by scanning this QR code. (Tip: If you use the mobile app, there is no need to to go through the library’s website!)
Morningstar Online provides information on more than 30,000 stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. Memorial Hall Library’s subscription provides for two simultaneous users.
Stream 150,000+ classical music albums from more than a thousand labels. Search by keyword, composer, genre, label, artist, duration, or period. Features customizable playlists, a musical term dictionary and pronunciation guide, opera libretti and synopses, and professional analyses of major classical works.
Note: MHL’s subscription to Naxos Music Library has a limit of 4 simultaneous users. When you’re done with your listening session, please log out of Naxos and close your browser or app to free a spot for someone else.
The Naxos Music Library app is available for both Apple and Android devices, but to use it you will first need to create a user account:
See this page for more information. Note that if you wish to use the NML Jazz and/or NML World apps, account credentials will need to be created for those as well.
Stream 20,000+ jazz albums from over 500 record labels, including Warner Jazz and Fantasy Jazz.
Note: MHL’s subscription to Naxos Music Library Jazz has a limit of 2 simultaneous users. When you’re done with your listening session, please log out of Naxos and close your browser or app to free a spot for someone else.
The Naxos Music Library Jazz app is available for both Apple and Android devices, but to use it you will first need to create a user account:
See this page for more information. Note that if you wish to use the Naxos Music Library and/or NML World apps, account credentials will need to be created for those as well.
Stream tracks from more than 15,000 world music albums. Includes the entire catalog of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and ARC Music. Searchable by keyword, composer, artist, geographical area, and cultural group.
Note: MHL’s subscription to Naxos Music Library World has a limit of 2 simultaneous users. When you’re done with your listening session, please log out of Naxos and close your browser or app to free a spot for someone else.
The Naxos Music Library World app is available for both Apple and Android devices, but to use it you will first need to create a user account:
See this page for more information. Note that if you wish to use the Naxos Music Library and/or NML Jazz apps, account credentials will need to be created for those as well.
Enjoy everything The New York Times has to offer: News, Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, and The Athletic.
This document gives a thorough overview of what is included with The New York Times | All Access. Here are some highlights:
Mobile users can choose to use the following apps:
News (Gale OneFile) provides access to full-text newspapers and allows users to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, newspaper section, or other fields. The database offers a one-stop source for current news and searchable archives.
This database was formerly known as InfoTrac Newsstand.
Newspapers.com Library Edition is an extensive database that provides online access to 10,000+ (and growing!) historical newspapers from nearly 60 locations in the US and worldwide. Numbering over 100 million pages, the World Collection is a prime resource for genealogy and historical content.
Dating from the late 1600s into the 2010s, Newspapers.com Library Edition contains full and partial runs of regional, state, and local titles from the United States and other countries.
Want to learn how to use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or Instagram? Check out tutorials in Niche Academy that will help you get started. Niche Academy offers tutorials on other websites and online resources, too. If there’s a topic you’d like but don’t see, ask a librarian, and we may be able to add a tuorial on that subject.
NoveList K-8 Plus is a trusted source of read-alike recommendations specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Recommendations and lists are created by librarians, teachers, school media specialists, and book experts. Includes reviews, award-winner lists, and resources for parents and educators.
NoveList Plus has reading recommendations for both fiction and nonfiction, for all ages. Features include:
Searchable by title, author, keyword, plot description, and series name. Search results can be limited by reading and age level.
Nursing and Allied Health (Gale OneFile) provides access to academic journals and other reference content covering all aspects of the nursing profession, from direct patient care to health care administration. The database offers current and authoritative content for professionals already working in the field as well as students pursuing a nursing-focused curriculum.
O’Reilly for Public Libraries is a digital library of books, videos, and audiobooks on technology and business by major publishers. Included are 50,000+ books—including pre-release titles—30,000 hours of videos and on-demand courses, and more than 3,000 audiobooks. Although access is unlimited, titles cannot be downloaded for offline use and require an always-on internet connection.
Note that O’Reilly for Public Libraries is a rebranding and expansion of the service formerly known as Safari Tech Books Online.
OCLC WorldCat is a free catalog that shows the holdings of more than 72,000 libraries worldwide.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context) is covers timely issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular resource supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.
PebbleGo is a curricular content hub specifically designed for K-3 students. Contains hundreds of articles, activities, and videos and supports early literacy with read-aloud audio. The current subscription includes the Animals and Biographies modules.
Qello Concerts by Stingray is the world’s largest collection of full-length concerts and music documentaries that can be streamed on demand. With new releases every week spanning over 30 genres, it’s like a never-ending concert ticket. Sign in with your Andover library card to get 7 days of unlimited access. Return as often as you like to get another 7-day pass. Quello Concerts can be streamed to nearly any device, including the Libby App, under Extras. (NB: you need to be signed in to Libby in order to see the Extras!)
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love.
Current and historical reviews, price and earnings projections, and analyst commentaries on approximately 3,500 of the most actively traded stocks, in over 90 industries.
New to investing? Be sure to look at Value Line Library’s educational tools. These are designed to help you learn:
Instructional webinars from Value Line can be found at https://www.valuelinelibrary.com/recorded-webinars.
Available at home to Andover cardholders only.
Actually two online books — one covering the Colonial Era to the Civil War, the other from 1860 to the present — The Value of a Dollar gives the costs of thousands of items at various points in history as well as how much money people had to buy them at the time. Each section contains currency conversion tables. Both volumes are available in print at the library.
A collection of career guides and highly specialized industry journals
Direct access to The Wall Street Journal online. Search defaults to searching the last 90 days’ worth of WSJ articles but the advanced search lets you search the last four years.
Users outside the library will need to create a free account, after which you can start using WSJ.com immediately. Your access will be available for the next 3 days. After 3 days, simply return to this page, click the above link again, and log in as an existing user with the same username and password you used when you created your account.
Access includes:
Note: The Wall Street Journal apps do not work for library users, but the digital version works very well with small screen devices.
Direct access to The Washington Post online. Features include:
To access The Washington Post:
* Access the Washington Post’s Print Archives, which go back to 1877, requires a 7-day pass. To get one while in the library, click here.
