Tech: Digital Services and Material

Tech at Maxwell

  • Wi-fi for patrons to access the Internet with their own devices
  • Computers for the public to use here
  • Chromebooks to check out for a week
  • A photocopier, printer, and document scanner
  • A digitized collection of West Genesee school yearbooks
  • Ebooks, and digital audiobooks, videos, and music
  • OCPL’s databases for research
  • Tech toys

OverDrive Digital collection

Meet Libby.

Overdrive includes currently popular ebooks, audiobooks, and music.

Titles can be read or played on tablets, ereaders (including Kindle), computers and more.

Visit OCPL’s Overdrive site to get started.

Hoopla

hoopla

Maxwell Memorial Library offers Hoopla, a service we partner with to bring you thousands of movies, television, music, and audiobook titles. All you need is your library card and a Web browser, smartphone, or tablet.

Databases and Online Reference

Access newspapers and archives from news from all over New York State through OCPL’s Databases.

Ancestry.com New York

ancestry

Now available to New York residents at no charge.

Several New York repositories have formed a partnership with Ancestry.com to digitize family history records and make them available online for free. The list of records available is located in the bottom left corner of the page.

Descriptions of the records as well as the holding organizations are provided through the links and logos on the Ancestry.com New York web page.

Follow this link to sign up for your free account.