We are excited to announce that Overdrive with the Libby App have been added to the digital resources at Herrin City Library! Libby is a free app, available for Apple, Android and Windows devices. Libby makes it easy to borrow eBooks and eAudiobooks from your phone and tablet.
The Herrin City Library and all Illinois Heartland Libraries now have a mobile app! The SHARE Mobile Library, created with the Solus library app platform, allows patrons to:
- Browse new books
- Search digital content
- Place holds
- Renew items
- View book recommendations
- Add multiple accounts, manage family checkouts
- Find your nearest SHARE-member library
Download the App
To download the app, search SHARE Mobile Library on the Google Play Store or Apple App Store or, scan the QR Code.
You will need your library card number and your pin number. If you forgot your pin number or need to set one up, please call the library at 618-942-6109.
Herrin High School Year books
eBooks: for books that are free or in the Public domain:
(Public domain means belonging to or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.)
Free Audiobooks @ Audible Free Listens
Many Books
Standard Ebooks: The Standard Ebooks project is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.
25 Places to Read Free Books Online
Digital Resources:
Are subject to the copyright as described by each resource.
The Digital Public Library:
Discover 35,456,977 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States
Genealogy and Local History
Resources on doing genealogy research; such as, finding an obituary, requesting information from researchers in the History Room, using Herrin City Library’s Genealogy Research Subscription Resources, and suggestions for free research.
Illinois Digital Archives
The Illinois Digital Archives (IDA) was created in 2000, as a repository for the digital collections of the Illinois State Library as well as other libraries and cultural institutions in the State of Illinois.
What can you find in the Illinois Digital Archives?
- Photographs, slides, glass negatives
- Oral histories
- Manuscripts and letters
- Federal government documents
- Postcards
- Posters
- Videos
- Newspapers
- Maps
Laws of Illinois Research Page
Useful online resource for researching the history of Illinois territories and state from Western Illinois University, The Library of Congress, Cornell University, the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Google Books and the Hathi Trust Digital Library.