Online Resources

Downloads & Digital Collections

Flipster

Read magazines online or with the Flipster app for Android or iOS with your library card.

Meet Libby

Download eBooks and eAudiobooks free with your library card. Download the Libby app today.

Overdrive

Computer Guide

Kindle Guide

Smartphone/Tablet Guide

Wi Digital Library

Wisconsin's Digital Library

Large collection of audiobooks and ebooks to download or read on a device.

Kindle Fire Guide

Older Kindle/e-reader Guide

Account Information

MORE Library Account

Manage your account. Find magazine & newspaper articles, genealogy sources, and more!

Library Elf

Manage due dates, requests, and fines of families or multiple cards with one account!

WISCAT

Can’t find it? Search all Wisconsin library holdings with Wiscat, then contact the Library to place a request.

NoveList Plus

A reader’s advisory database recommendations, author biographies, articles and lists for fiction and nonfiction books.

Genealogy & Newspapers

Ancestry Library Edition

Search billions of records and discover your family’s story. 

Use this resource in the library with the public computers or your laptop, tablet or smart device.

Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers

Full-text Wisconsin newspapers from 2005 to 90 days ago, plus newspapers from the 1800s and 1900s.

Heritage Quest Online

Access genealogical research: all U.S. Federal Census records, family and local histories, and access to PERSI PERiodical Source Index.

Newspapers.com

Historical newspapers archive from the 1700s-2000s containing thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers in the United States and other countries.

Resources & Lifelong Learning

Auto Repair Source

Authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles.

BadgerLink

Resources for personal interests to educational research.

Consumer Reports

Consumer Report

Testing results for a wide variety of products and comprehensive reviews.

Learning Express Library

Practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, achieve success at school, at work or in life.

MORE Research Page

MORE Research Page helps you find magazine & newspaper articles, genealogy sources, and more!

Transparent Language Online

Learn more than 100 languages at home or on the go with your library card.

Hours

Monday 9am-8pm
Tuesday 9am-8pm
Wednesday 9am-8pm
Thursday 9am-8pm
Friday 9am-6pm
Saturday 9am-5pm
Sunday: Closed

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Altoona Public Library
1303 Lynn Avenue
Altoona, WI 54720

715-839-5029

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