Digital Resources

Niche Academy is an online training platform with self-paced tutorials to help you get the most out of the library’s digital resources.

Learn how to use library apps and databases, brush up on basic computer skills, and increase digital literacy with short, easy-to-follow video tutorials.

Learn a new language or improve your ESL skills with Mango Languages. With courses in over 70 world languages and 21 English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) dialects, Mango focuses on practical phrases, cultural nuances, and organic language acquisition.

Little Pim is the leading language teaching method designed just for children. 

Mango and Little Pim are accessible in the library and from home via web and mobile apps. Learn more at https://mangolanguages.com/

How to use Mango Tutorial:

Ancestry Library Edition, the largest online family history resource available, provides unprecedented access to family
history via documents that record the lineage of individuals from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe,
Australia, and more.

Ancestry Library Edition is available for use in the library. HeritageQuest can be used remotely with an Auburn library card.

How to use Ancestry Library Tutorial:

This online resources includes digitized books, pamphlets, newspapers, manuscripts, and images documenting life in America from the colonial period through the 19th century.

Hoopla Digital offers audiobooks, eBooks, comics and manga, music, movies, TV, and more, all available 24/7 with no holds and no waiting. To get started, simply visit HooplaDigital.com or download the Hoopla app from your device’s app store, and sign up with your Auburn Public Library card.

Checkout limit: 5 per patron per month

Hoopla FAQs

How to use Hoopla tutorial:

A comprehensive database for readers’ advisory, offering recommendations for over 260,000 fiction and nonfiction titles across all age groups. It provides tools for finding books by theme, genre, or appeal, along with author read-alikes, series information, book reviews, and discussion guides. Includes reading recommendations to help readers of all ages find just the right book.

This resource is provided by CW MARS. You will need a CW MARS Library card number to access Novelist Plus remotely. 

Anyone who lives, works, or goes to school in Massachusetts can register for a free Boston Public Library eCard and gain access to a wide range of digital resources covering newspapers, magazines, streaming media, genealogy, and more.

BPL eCard FAQs

An online library of more than 75,000 free eBooks

A non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more

Consumer Reports is the world’s largest nonprofit product-testing organization and has been helping subscribers find better, safer products for 80+ years. Consumer Reports accepts no outside advertising and no free test samples, and employs shoppers and experts to buy and test the products reviewed.

You will need your Auburn Public Library card number to access Consumer Reports remotely.

How to use Consumer Reports Online tutorial:

NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable local and national news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.

Explore Worcester history through local news, events and people with Worcester Telegram & Gazette Collection. Search current and archived issues with full-color newspaper pages, full-text articles and content only published online. 

You will need your Auburn Public Library card number to access NewsBank remotely.

How to use Newsbank tutorial:

Provides free access to almost every issue of Time magazine since its launch in 1923

Easily search over 17,000 publications from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources covering biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental sciences, history, marketing, political sciences, and psychology. Access articles from Nature, the Economist, the New York Times, and thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.

This database is provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners for anyone who lives, works, or studies in Massachusetts. It is accessible via geolocation, which means that it can be accessed from anywhere within the state. 

Having a clear, compelling point of view on today’s most debated political and social issues requires finding the most credible facts and insights. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints simplifies your search by bringing together thousands of resources to provide authoritative articles, research reports, videos, and statistics. Opposing Viewpoint steers you away from unreliable content that online browsers sometimes serve up and helps you draw your own conclusions about global warming, the minimum wage, and hundreds of other debated topics.

This database is provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners for anyone who lives, works, or studies in Massachusetts. It is accessible via geolocation, which means that it can be accessed from anywhere within the state. 

How to use Gale tutorial

Three levels of age-appropriate encyclopedia content for adults, middle and high school students, and children. Includes articles, primary sources, audiovisual materials, dictionaries, a world atlas, web links, and a country comparison feature.  Research tools include citation assistance and a step-by-step planner and tutorial for research and reports.

Statewide databases are available to everyone who lives, works, and studies in Massachusetts. The resources are accessible via geolocation, which means that they can be accessed from anywhere within the state. 

PebbleGo is a curriculum-aligned digital research and literacy platform designed specifically for elementary school students. Use PebbleGo Animals and PebbleGo Biographies to help your young students build confidence in their technology, research, and reading skills. The word highlighting and natural voice audio allows readers and pre-readers to easily follow along with the text as they build vocabulary, pronunciation, and fluency skills every step of the way.

Statewide databases are available to everyone who lives, works, and studies in Massachusetts. The resources are accessible via geolocation, which means that they can be accessed from anywhere within the state. 

Digitized books, government publications, and other documents from the collections of an international community of research libraries. All material is indexed and searchable, but access to full reproductions is limited to material not under copyright.

MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. Covers symptoms, causes, treatment, and prevention for over 900 diseases, illnesses, health conditions, and wellness issues. A service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

A search tool that provides contact information for legal aid offices, government agencies and court programs that may be available for free or at low cost, as well as links to free legal information and self-help materials.

This free digital archive offers millions of photographs, maps, manuscripts, audio recordings, films, newspapers, and more—from presidential papers and Civil War images to early sound recordings and rare books.

Access 26,627 descriptions of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, films, works of art and organizational records, and digital content, including images, audio files, video files, and many others.