Online Services

The following free services and research sites are available to all Chittenden Public Library card holders. Follow the links below to access online content. Please email the Library for account numbers or passwords at chittendenpl@gmail.com.

Overdrive & Libby: Access to downloadable ebooks and audiobooks for all ages.
How to access Libby: Once you’ve downloaded the app on your device, contact CPL for your sign-in and password.

Palace Project: The Palace Project is a robust suite of content, services, and tools for the delivery of ebooks, audiobooks, and other digital media to benefit public libraries and their patrons.
How to access Palace: Once you’ve downloaded the app on your device, under settings, click Add Library and choose Chittenden Public Library. (If you are also a patron of another library which is registered with Palace, you can also add it to your list of libraries). It will then prompt you to create a free card. Follow the instructions and a barcode will be sent to your email. Once in, you will have access to 1000s of titles!

Vermont Online Library, a database for newspapers and research (including Vermont vital records from 1909 on at Ancestry.com here).

Digital Public Library of America Discover 49,882,649 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

Internet Archive for free ebooks, audiobooks, music, movies & more. Just sign up with your email address and search!

Project Guttenburg, a library of over 60,000 free eBooks!

Library of Congress: The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. Includes Chronicling America, a searchable newspaper archive.