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LitBase
Hundreds of full-text scholarly journals, literary magazines, author interviews, biographies, and more to support literature research.
Literary Reference Source
Full-text database containing plot summaries and synopses, literary criticism, author biographies, literary journal articles, poems, and short stories.
Little Pim
Language learning program designed to teach kids 0-6 a new language through videos, games, and songs. Choose from 12 languages—Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Little Pim is accessible through Mango Languages, either on the website or app.
To access Little Pim on the Mango website, find Little Pim under the Explore tab of each available language. On the Mango app, Little Pim is located in each available language at the bottom of your screen (scroll to the right in the bottom menu bar).
Media on Demand (web) or Libby (app)
Media on Demand is the library’s largest and most popular collection of ebooks and audiobooks, offering more than 70,000 fiction and nonfiction titles, as well as the latest issues of more than 4,000 magazines—including The New Yorker, Chicago Magazine, and Bon Appétit. Need help? Explore how-to articles and watch an instructional video.
Libby, an app for Media on Demand, is available on iOS, Android, Amazon Fire tablets, and Microsoft Windows 10+. Need help? Explore Libby Help »
Checkout periods & lending limits
- Check out 20 items and place 20 holds at a time
- Lending period: 7-21 days
- Media on Demand/Libby users benefit from access to thousands of shared titles through the library’s consortium. In addition, Oak Park purchases copies of many titles available only to Oak Park cardholders. Therefore, wait times are often shorter than initially indicated.
Special features
- Oak Park librarians create customized digital bookshelves
- Titles can be renewed
- Special reading rooms for kids and teens
The London Free Press [Canada]
Browse (digital scan of print issue): current (11 most recent issues)
Search (full-text articles): current (2007-present)
