Overview and Access

Digital resources are online collections of eBooks, audiobooks, videos, magazines, music, newspapers, academic papers, professional reports, learning tools, job search tools, and more. 

• Most digital databases require that you sign in with your library card number and PIN number.
• Some require that you also set up an account with them directly.
• Some require that you download an app to your phone, computer, iPad, Kindle or similar device to access the content.
• Most can be accessed from home, but a few require that you come into the Library and use one of our computers.

A library card from any library in Marin County is required to access many of the digital collections offered through Sausalito and other county libraries. 

Streaming Media

Biblio+ is a streaming video service featuring independent films and documentaries and a rotating collection of television series from the BBC. Unlike Kanopy, there is no limit to the number of films you can watch per month. For Sausalito residents only. 

Hoopla offers thousands of movies, tv shows, eBooks, and audiobooks. Users are allowed 12 "checkouts" per month.

Kanopy for Sausalito residents only, offers on-demand streaming of classic, independent, and foreign films, as well as extensive instructional video collections. Titles are available from Paramount Classics, the Criterion Collection, the Great Courses, and more. Users are allowed 12 "tickets" per month, with some content requiring more than one ticket. The Sausalito Library also subscribes to four unlimited access collections within Kanopy that are exempt from the ticket limit:

• World Cinema
• Favorites
• Diversity
• Easy Watching

Kanopy and Hoopla are made possible through a grant from the Friends of the Sausalito Library. 

Alexander Street features approximately 500 videos of music, theater, and dance performances, including the Royal Shakespeare Company Collection and the Qwest Collection of live concerts.

eBooks and eAudiobooks

Overdrive/Libby:  Set up your account on your mobile device or computer to access eBooks, audiobooks, and magazines, including recent titles from major publishers.  Visit Overdrive's Getting Started page for directions on how to download and install Libby and for other Libby learning tools.

Hoopla:  includes thousands of popular e-books, audiobooks, comic books and music -- and no wait lists!

O'Reilly Learning provides free access to online books and videos and tutorials on technology, digital media, and business.

The Palace Project  an app for reading e-books, audiobooks available through the Marin library system, plus titles available only in the Palace app. Requires that you download the app.

ProQuest Ebook Central  Find relevant e-books and chapters from scholarly sources including university presses; read online or download. 

Overdrive Magazines Thousands of magazines in several languages, including popular magazines like The New Yorker, Newsweek, OK, and US Weekly. Also available through the Libby App.

Newspapers

New York Times  Renewable 3-day online access when you sign up for an account using your email address.

Washington Post Renewable 7-day online access when you sign up for an account using your email address.

Access World News Local, national, and international media archive and current news source. Current issues of some newspapers are available including San Francisco Chronicle, Marin Independent Journal, and there's a collection of  San Francisco Community Coverage from Bay Area news outlets. Issues are displayed as as text or as full-color, browsable images of the paper copy.

California Digital Newspaper Collection Repository of historical California newspapers published from 1846-present, including the first California newspaper, the Californian, and the first daily California newspaper, the Daily Alta California. 

Sausalito News Digital access to scanned issues of the Sausalito News from February 1885 through December 1966.

Sausalito Marin Scope Digital Archives A digital archive of the Sausalito Marin Scope covering the years 1971 to 2019.

Young Learners (K-12)

Visit the K-12 Learning & Research Databases page to access K-12 learning and research tools including online live tutors, high quality academic and science databases, tools to help with school projects and more. 

Adult Learning & Research

LearningExpress Library (EBSCO) Practice tests, tutorials, guides and and other resources to assist students, college applicants, and job seekers. 

Lingopie online language learning platform helps build fluency through real TV shows and movies in a variety of languages. Some content, such as Disney+ and Netflix, requires a separate subscription and is not included.

Mango Languages is an online, interactive language learning tool for adults, featuring over 40 foreign languages for English speakers and more than 15 English language courses for non-English speakers. 

O'Reilly Learning provides online books and videos and tutorials on technology, digital media, and business.

Archives Unbound is a unique historical collections database that includes primary source materials covering a vast array of subject areas. 

Oxford English Dictionary  A  guide to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.

Proquest eLibrary  is intended for students and educators at high schools, community colleges, and four-year universities. Full text content includes books, magazines, journals, newspapers, photographs, transcripts, and videos. Subjects include Business, Education, Health, General Interest, Language Arts, Science, Social Science.

Museum Passes

Discover & Go is a special service that provides free and discount museum passes to library patrons. Passes can be reserved and printed online via the Discover & Go website. Museums include the Exploratorium, the Asian Art Museum, the Bay Area Discovery Museum, the Lawrence Hall of Science, the Oakland Museum of California, and many more.