eLibrary

Seymour Library offers a variety of online resources with our eLibrary. Borrow or stream eBooks, movies, audiobooks, and more, or research your family history, learn a new language, or browse newspaper articles with our online databases. Find links, guides, and help below. Need help? Ask us!

Digital Media and Apps

OverDrive

To our users of the OverDrive app, please note that by February of 2022, the OverDrive app will be no longer be available as a download through the Apple App Store, Google Play, or the Microsoft Store. The app will officially be sunsetted at the end of 2022. Users are encouraged to download the new Libby app.

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

Libby

Borrow ebooks and audiobooks 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 about Libby!

Hoopla

Hoopla provides you the freedom you’ve been searching for to experience, explore and enjoy what you want when you want, and where you want. Simple to access and use, without the hassle of having to return the items you’ve borrowed, all you need is your library card, a web browser, smartphone or tablet to get started. Stream movies, audiobooks, music, and more with hoopla.

Need help getting started? Download our guide.

Get started streaming books, movies, music, and more with Hoopla

FAQs and Help

Kanopy Streaming

Kanopy is a video streaming platform for libraries with one of the largest and most unique collections in the world featuring over 26,000 movies, documentaries, and indie and foreign films from hundreds of producers including The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, Kino Lorber, and PBS and thousands of independent filmmakers.

Residents or property owners in the Seymour Public Library District can watch up to ten films a month with their library card.

Get started streaming movies with Kanopy

FAQs and Help

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eResources

Find articles in magazines or newspapers, research your family history or learn a new language. Explore our databases!

Novelist Plus

Looking for your next book? Want to find a new author? Can’t remember all the titles in a series? Try NoveList Plus.

What is it? Novelist Plus is a premiere database of reading recommendations, available through libraries around the world presenting fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks, and includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists, and more!

Videos

Check out Seymour Library’s new original video library. Discover more books to read or interesting bits of trivia through our series of informative videos.

Tech Tutorials

Check out our special video library for help using our eLibrary (digital services).

Digital Parnterships

Get access to even more titles in the Libby app! You can get more digital access with your Seymour Library card. Finger Lakes Library System, OWWL Library System, and the Southern Tier Library System have teamed up to share OverDrive collections through the Libby app! With a few limitations, you can get access to titles in all three collections.

Resources

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