E-Books

Downloadable E-Books and Audiobooks from Overdrive: Bestseller text e-books and audio e-books than can be downloaded to your computer and/or mobile device. For more information, read the FAQ.

Safari Tech Books: Electronic reference library of titles especially for programmers and IT professionals from publishers such as Addison Wesley, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, IBM Press, Macromedia Press, Microsoft Press, MySQL Press, New Riders, No Starch Press, Novell Press, O'Reilly, Peachpit, Prentice Hall PTR, Que, and Sams.

LearningExpress Searchable E-books: Study guides and test-preparation books to help people prepare for academic, licensing, certification, or civil service exams.The e-books are in in PDF format which requires the free Adobe Acrobat® Reader to view. To download the Reader, click here. Also available from LearningExpress are interactive practice tests and courses (requires a Daly City Library card hold).

Gale Virtual Reference Library
Full text of these comprehensive specialty reference works:

• American Men and Women of Science
• College Blue Book
• Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans
• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
• U.S. Immigration and Migration Reference Library
• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Encyclopedia of Religion

Missions of California: Discusses each of the California missions from their founding to the present day, including the reasons for Spanish colonization in California and the effects of colonization on the local Indians. Includes instructions for making a model. Also available in print at all the libraries.

TumbleBook Library: an online collection of animated, talking picture books for kids.

Updated July 12, 2012