LibGuides: Library Digital Offerings: Library Digital Offerings

Audiobooks, eBooks, and more

Kanopy
Enjoy critically-acclaimed movies, inspiring documentaries, award-winning foreign films and more.
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Monthly, San Antonio Public Library cardholders receive 7 Kanopy film credits and 1 Great Course credit.
Libby App
The Libby app is the easiest way to get started with digital books, audiobooks, and magazines from SAPL!
OverDrive Website
SAPL's OverDrive website. Read in your browser or search and download titles to your device.
SAPL Catalog
Search and borrow OverDrive digital library materials using the library catalog. Items borrowed from OverDrive now appear in your online library account information.

OverDrive Magazines
OverDrive offers access to a selection of popular magazines. Read in browser or on the Libby app.

Database Digital Magazines

Gale General OneFile This link opens in a new window
Gale's largest general-interest periodical resource. Includes reference, newspaper, and audio content that complements the resource's robust collection of magazines and journals.

Digital Resources for Continuing Education

Learn to fix it yourself, gain or sharpen skills, and/or acquire knowledge with your library card.

Gale Presents: Udemy
Udemy offers more than 12,000 high-quality, on-demand video courses taught by world-class instructors across 75 categories for upskilling in the areas of business, technology, and design.

Gale Business: Plan Builder This link opens in a new window
Grow, plan, and optimize a business/nonprofit. Utilize development tools and a step-by-step process to build a business plan.

Universal Class
Hundreds of lifelong learning courses in over 30 subject areas, many which offer CEUs. Universal Class is available in Libby or the Libby website in Extras.
ChiltonLibrary
An extensive digital library of repair manuals, available in full-text most with diagrams, and many with how-to videos from one of the leading publishers of automobile maintenance manuals.

Digital Newspapers

Your library card is your pass to access reliable news information sources without charge.

New York Times This link opens in a new window
San Antonio Express-News This link opens in a new window
Value Line Library Research Center This link opens in a new window
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window

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OverDrive is the name of the company that provides SAPL with a digital reading platform. With the OverDrive service, SAPL users have access to enjoy ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and other streaming media. OverDrive offers the following options for enjoying SAPL's digital collection:

OverDrive App

The OverDrive app was discontinued on May 1, 2023.

Libby Mobile App

Available on Android and iOS devices, this is the newer flagship app from OverDrive. Users can search for SAPL in Libby and get started today.

OverDrive Website (SAPL)

Each library has their own unique website with .overdrive.com in the URL. SAPL's OverDrive website (sanantonio.overdrive.com) is best enjoyed on a desktop or laptop computer. It has a different look and feel than Libby.

Libby Browser Experience

Users can enjoy many of the same features of the Libby mobile app in a web browser at libbyapp.com.

Extras by OverDrive

Kanopy is OverDrive's streaming home for essential films, documentaries, and kids content. Kanopy is available as an app, via the website, and within Extras in the Libby App.

Universal Class offers hundreds of lifelong learning courses in over 30 subject areas, many of which offer continuing education units (CEUs). Thanks to the partnership between OverDrive and Universal Class, Universal Class is available in Extras on Libbyapp.com or within the Libby App.

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