African Storybook 

African Storybook provides open access to picture storybooks in the languages of Africa. For children's literacy, enjoyment, and imagination!

BookPage 

Discover your next great read! BookPage is a monthly book review published for avid readers like you, highlighting new books across all genres.

Directory of Open Access Journals

DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.

EBook Central (ProQuest)

Ebook Central provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information.

Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction

This work-in-progress is a comprehensive quotation-based dictionary of the language of science fiction.

HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS: THE AUSTIN AMERICAN STATESMAN (PROQUEST)

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Historical Newspapers: El Paso Herald/El Paso Times

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Hoopla

Use your Kennedale Library Card to access more than 500,000 CDs, movies, comic books, eBooks, TV shows, and audiobooks. Hoopla digital is a streaming platform that allows patrons to instantly access videos and music for free with their Library card. Content can be streamed or downloaded from a computer browser or from the hoopla digital app, available for iOS and Android.

Internet Archive 

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Kids eReading Room (OverDrive)

Just as the children’s section of the physical branch is creatively sectioned off, we created a user-friendly section of our OverDrive-powered website for kids.

The Newsweek Archive (ProQuest)

An archive of Newsweek magazine, one of the premier US weeklies of the 20th -21st centuries. With coverage from 1933 through 2012, it comprises 80 years of news reporting and commentary, charting the key US and global events during this period. Its diverse content beyond news and politics (in areas including business, science/technology, arts, travel, and family life) is such that there is valuable material for researchers in many fields, from history and political science through to economics, women's studies, and media history.

Open Library (Internet Archive)

Open Library is a universal catalog for book metadata. The goal of Open Library is to create a web page for every book ever published. Open Library is a collaborative open source initiative, which means that anyone can use and contribute to the Open Library catalog. 

OverDrive - Libby App

Libby has a large selection of popular eBooks, comics, eMagazines, and eAudiobooks. Use with a wide variety of e-readers (including Kindle), portable devices (including Android and iPhones), PCs, and Macs.

Project Gutenberg

Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.

Standard Ebooks 

Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not-for-profit project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, and free.

How to transfer Standard Ebooks titles to your favorite ereader.

Teaching Books

Start enjoying 336,383 resources about children's and young adult books.

Twentieth Century American Poetry (ProQuest)

This unparalleled collection includes 50,000 poems drawn from 750 volumes by over 300 poets, including Adrienne Rich, Andrei Codrescu, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, and Cathy Song.

Twentieth Century English Poetry (ProQuest)

A collection of 598 volumes of poetry by 283 poets from 1900 to 2000, including W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Thom Gunn, Fleur Adcock, Paul Muldoon, Tony Harrison, Benjamin Zephaniah and Carol Ann Duffy, and incorporating poets from The Faber Poetry Library.

WorldCat

The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 86 million bibliographic records and nearly 1.2 billion holdings representing the collections of more than 10,000 libraries, over 400 languages, and all types of materials ranging from stone tablets to electronic books. WorldCat is updated daily and is now easier to search than ever.