Virtual Services

Blackstone Unlimited allows you to listen to an unlimited selection of digital audiobooks,
available from your own local library! All you need is a valid library card from a participating
library and you can get started listening right away.

Key Features of Blackstone Unlimited:

-Instant Access, No Restrictions: Bid farewell to holds, waiting lists, and restrictions. Library patrons can now enjoy a world of audiobooks without limits, ensuring a seamless and gratifying reading experience.

-Diverse and Growing Catalog: With an ever-expanding collection, Blackstone Unlimited offers a diverse array of genres and authors, ensuring that libraries can cater to the varied tastes of their patrons.

-Renowned Authors at Your Fingertips: Dive into the captivating narratives of some of the world’s most renowned authors. Blackstone Unlimited brings the works of literary giants directly to library shelves and digital platforms.

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Discover a world of possibilities with Boundless, an extensive collection of ebooks, audio, and digital media. Whether you’re an avid reader or someone who listens to audio at 2x speed, Boundless is your gateway to the best in digital content and programming.

Access our digital library from the comfort of your own device, so you can read, learn, and explore wherever you are. The My Shelf feature is a personalized page for all of your checkouts. You can also view specially curated carousels and content based on your reading activities and interests.  With insights, goals, and badges, you can set personal reading goals, track your progress, and earn badges!

Boundless makes it easy for the whole family to get involved in reading. Once you download the app or use the web version, you can create user profiles within your account. Sign up all members of your family with teen and kid-friendly experiences!

• Ebooks and audio access
• Streaming videos
• PDF activities as well as video books
• Hit your personal reading goals and earn badges!
• View specially curated carousels and digital content based on reading activity and interests!

All you need to access Boundless is your library card! Download the app in your preferred app store today!

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– Checkout ebooks for all ages
– Stream live from your computer or download to a mobile device
– Never have to put items on hold
– 8 checkouts per library card per month
– Checkout ebooks, comics & audiobooks for 21 days, music for 7 days, movies & TV shows for 3 days
– Create an account using your library card number and PIN

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Libby, by OverDrive
Borrow ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app by OverDrive. You can even send and read your borrowed ebooks to your Kindle e-reader (U.S. only)! It’s free and easy to get started for new users and a streamlined experience for current OverDrive app users. Learn more at overdrive.com/apps/libby/.

If you currently use the legacy OverDrive app and need assistance, visit https://help.overdrive.com.

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– eBooks and eAudiobooks for all ages
– Web Only site
– Kindle eBooks
– Checkout up to 7 titles
– Checkout titles for up to 21 days
– Checkout using your library card number

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What is Beanstack? Beanstack is a web and mobile app used to track independent reading time, and help build a culture of reading in school and at home.

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The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today.

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Booklist is a book-review magazine that has been published by the American Library Association for more than 100 years, and is widely viewed as offering the most reliable reviews to help libraries decide what to buy and to help library patrons and students decide what to read, view, or listen to. It comprises two print magazines, an extensive website and database, e-newsletters, webinars, and other resources that support librarians in collection development and readers’ advisory.

What is Booklist Online?

Booklist Online is the web version of the Booklist print magazine. It offers free content to non-subscribers including a Review of the Day (a highlighted review we’re featuring), and a generous selection of additional reviews and features written exclusively for Booklist Online. Subscribers also gain access to digital editions of Booklist and the full Booklist Online database, which contains more than 180,000 reviews and thousands of features dating back to 1992 and 8,000 new reviews and related features every year. Much of that content dynamically linked—review to review, review to feature, and feature to feature.

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-Download the app to your mobile device
– Sign up with your library card number and PIN
– Access your account
– Place holds
– Renew materials

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The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to today.

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Find information on topics of interest including business, education, health, homework help, government, obituaries, sports and more from a variety of news media including newspapers, blogs, videos and web-only content featuring the Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Sun-Times, Christian Science Monitor, Des Moines Register, USA Today and more.
(At home access requires your library card number)

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Ready to read something new? NoveList K-8 Plus has you covered!
Finding a new book is as simple as 1-2-3.
Log in to NoveList K-8 Plus from your library’s site.
Need help finding NoveList K-8 Plus? Ask your librarian.
Find the “Recommended Reads Lists” located on the left side of the home page.
Choose from any of the hundreds of great books organized by genre and age level.
Whether you’re hungry for a story about starting school, superheroes, or not-so-scary
monsters, our Recommended Reads lists will keep your to-be-read pile filled.

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Get the detailed information you need to tackle vehicle maintenance and repairs. With step-by-step service and repair procedures, labor estimating tool, maintenance and specification tables, vacuum diagrams to simplify troubleshooting, wiring diagrams, close up photographs and illustrations, ASE test prep quizzes, and a print button to easily print out what is needed.

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An interactive Web tool designed to assist you in modeling the proper use of information property.

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Coursera partners with more than 200 leading universities and companies to bring flexible, affordable, job-relevant online learning to individuals and organizations worldwide. We offer a range of learning opportunities—from hands-on projects and courses to job-ready certificates and degree programs.

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Empower learners with digital citizenship skills to navigate today’s virtual landscape. Interactive activities guide students through project-based learning activities using digital tools to create podcasts, multimedia presentations, social media campaigns, and more. Database articles explore cyberbullying, digital research skills, citizen journalism, and more. Digital Literacy will give your students and patrons the skills to be savvy digital citize

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A comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You’ll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. Click on a category to the right so that you can start on your path to success right now.

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The Rosen Financial Literacy database makes economics and personal finance easy to understand and highly engaging. Articles explore macro-, micro-, and global economics as well as personal and household finance. Users will learn to manage credit and debt, save and invest with confidence, plan for college and retirement and avoid fraud and scams. Financial Literacy is an online economics and personal finance resource specifically designed for students in grades 7-12, but can easily benefit adults.

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Discover a great collection of articles from thousands of Gale resources – magazines, journals, newspapers and books along with videos, images and podcast content – all brought to you by your library.

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ProQuest has partnered with Ancestry.com to create Ancestry® Library Edition, one of the most important genealogical collections available today. It has unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada, Europe, Australia and other areas of the world! This collection, with thousands of databases and billions of indexed names, is essential to having a broad genealogy collection, and its valuable content is a strong complement to HeritageQuest® Online.

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Thousands of student records from the Chillicothe Business College have been digitized and are available to view and print. The institution opened in 1890 as the Chillicothe Normal School and was known nationwide as an outstanding School of Business. Before closing in the 1950s the CBC had educated more 130,000 students. Not all student records are included, only those obtained by the Livingston County Library.

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Copies of the Chillicothe newspapers from 1889-2009. Newspapers from 1889-1977, with the exception of a gap from 1893-1900, are fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy to quickly explore historical content. Issues from 1978-2000 are not available at this time; we apologize for the inconvenience. Issues from 2001 forward are available through our Newsbank App under Virtual Services, Reading section. Sign up for a free account to access this service.

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This historic walking tour begins at the location of the Ben Bolt Theatre and heads south and east through our downtown. Navigate using the online menu buttons to go to the next or previous building. Wherever there is a QR code in a window, scan it to go to that specific building. This site can also be explored virtually. This is an Endorsed Project for the Missouri 2021 Bicentennial. Enjoy looking at old maps, articles, pictures and more as you explore Chillicothe!

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Explore your family history with the premier collection of U.S. obituaries and death notices for in-depth genealogical research from 1704 – today. HeritageHub helps you easily identify relatives, and uncover new information and potentially unknown family members. Includes deep coverage from all 50 states, hard-to-find content from the mid 1900s, and original obituary images. Access is available 24/7.

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14 car practice tests
9 motorcycle practice tests
27 CDL (commercial driver’s license) practice tests
3 online driver’s manuals (car, motorcycle, CDL)
An FAQ section with detailed answers to over 100 questions

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This award-winning resource provides middle and high school students with up-to-date, nonjudgmental, self-help support. Articles are correlated to state, national and provincial standards. Topics covered include diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, mental health, suicide, bullying and LGBTQ+ information. It has recently been updated to meet the needs of today’s teens and with new content on bullying, suicide, vaping, opioid abuse, gender identity, school safety, sexual harassment, COVID-19 and more.

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While these books and media have been selected for teens from 12 to 18 years of age, the award-winning titles and the titles on YALSA’s selected lists span a broad range of reading and maturity levels. We encourage adults to take an active role in helping individual teens choose those books that are the best fit for them and their families.

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Book Connections strives to joyfully enrich everyone’s experience reading children’s and young adult books.

Start enjoying 311,702 resources about children’s and young adult books.

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Lightbox Learning offers everything you need to provide blended learning solutions with up-to-date digital books and online activities. Our team has produced thousands of physical books and digital resources that educators can use to create in-person and remote learning strategies quickly and affordably. Educators can select from a variety of print and digital solutions for the classroom and library that span all subject areas, including social studies, math, science, language arts, and sports.

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You can search for book titles based on authors, topics, or titles of books. Just type what you want to search for in the blank field above and click Search. You will then be able to sort your search results, select book titles to add to your AR BookBag, print a list of your search results, or start a new search. This is a great resource to find reading level and points value for almost every book your child will read!

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A collection of 260,000+ digital materials about books for children and teens. This service includes a reader’s advisory tool, resources for homework help and homeschool support, summer reading and diverse book selections, and more.

Professionals/Educators go to TeachingBooks.net/login and enter their work email. We’ve set up the follow default credentials that anyone can use for anonymous access.

Username: livingstoncountylibrary

Password: showme

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