Download best-selling and classic audiobooks, and eBooks, available 24/7 from the library’s website. You can browse the collection, check out with your library card, and download to PC, Mac®, and many mobile devices. To get started, you will need to install free software. For audiobooks, download OverDrive® Media Console™. To read eBooks, you’ll need Adobe® Digital Editions. Titles can be enjoyed immediately or transferred to a variety of devices, including iPod®, Sony® Reader™, and many others. Some audio titles can also be burned to CD to listen on-the- go. Titles will automatically expire at the end of the lending period. This new service, powered by OverDrive, is free with your library card.

There are 99 Downloadable Magazine titles for you to download and read on your computer, tablet, or smartphone. All you need is a Sycamore Library Card and a few minutes to set up your Zinio Accounts. We recommend that you take a few moment to read the User Guide as you set up your account. (Click Here for the Guide) You must set up two accounts. the first one is to verify that you have a library card and it sets you up as a Sycamore Library Zinio patron. The second one is to join Zinio.com so the magazines will actually download on your devices. Once you have the two accounts set up, getting magazines is as easy as a click of the button.

TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.

Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services from the Library of Congress.

Download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device.

The electronic editions of record for valuable local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers--all in one easy-to-search database. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded.

Britannica Online Public Library Edition contains comprehensive content for all patrons—from elementary students to college students, from business professionals to curious seniors. Whether it’s frogs or physics, gardening or geography, Britannica Online Public Library Edition covers it all. Extensive and thorough yet intuitive and fast, this powerful collection delivers trustworthy information that your patrons need. Includes Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus.

Provides access to a wide variety of global business information including competitive intelligence, career and investment opportunities, business rankings, company histories and much more.

A collection of databases including Worldcat, the OCLC catalog of books and other materials located in libraries worldwide. Provided by the Illinois State Library. To log onto FirstSearch, use the Authorization: 100110246 and Password: sycamore.

Search more than 300 online reference books and thousands of articles with just one click. From any computer, you can quickly search hundreds of online reference books, covering a wide range of subjects, including arts, biography, business, education, the environment, history, law, literature, medicine, religion, science and the social sciences.

Offers 24/7 access to thousands of full-text medical journals, magazines, newspapers, reference works, multimedia and much more. More than 1,000 top medical journals and periodicals and articles from more than 2,200 general-interest publications and a collection of full-text reference works, streaming video with transcripts and links to trusted health- related Web sites.

Combines digital, searchable images of U.S. federal census records with the digitized version of the popular UMI® Genealogy & Local History collection and other valuable content. Researchers can use HeritageQuest Online to find their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.

Provides periodical and news information with content that includes more than 12,000 titles in all with nearly 30 years of coverage. General OneFile includes more than 7,800 full-text titles and 3,600 refereed journals, and hundreds of newspapers, more than 500 travel guides, the full collection of National Public Radio programs from 1990 to the present, including searchable transcripts and full-text of the New York Times from 1985 to the present, updated daily.

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There is a fee for full personal membership to this site. There is also a library subscription rate. We are looking into a trial of the database to determine if we should make this available to our patrons. Check out the site and tell us what you think.

The "What's Next" site has fiction series listed in order of the series. It is great for a person who wants to read a series of books in order and can't remember which book comes next.

The library's online catalog of materials owned.

Encyclopedia of Life is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.8 million living species known to science. It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world.

Art lesson plans, ideas, and job openings for art teachers

What does the public really think about the issues that come up in the press and the legislature? Check out this website to get some really helpful information.

Track shipments, get zip codes and zip code extensions, schedule a pick up, and anything else relating to the post office.

Information about the presidents from the whitehouse website.

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Create your own conversion tables. You can convert Celsius to Farenheit, Pounds to Kilograms, Gallons to Liters, the reverse to each and many other types of conversions.

If you are planning to travel outside of the United States, you can find out what your US dollar is worth in the country you are about to visit.

To find out the time and date anywhere in the world at any time. You can set you your own personal world clock to help you keep track of the time and date in places that are important to you.

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The DeKalb County Legal Self Help Center is the place to go to help you learn how to represent yourself in court in simpler legal matters when you cannot find an attorney to represent you, a place where you can get free legal information about Illinois law.

Built by barbed wire millionaire Isaac L. Ellwood in 1879, the mansion remains with its original furnishings just as when the Ellwood family lived there decades ago. Experience a by-gone era as you tour the great English living room with its vast stone fireplace, the mahogany- panelled dining room, and the magnificent rotunda with a three-story spiral staircase. The many restored bedrooms, servants rooms, and service areas provide a glimpse of a complete household at the turn of the twentieth century.

PAY-IT-FORWARD HOUSE is a charitable and benevolent not-for-profit corporation organized to provide low-cost temporary housing in a comfortable, home-like environment for family members and friends of patients at Kindred Hospital in Sycamore, Illinois.

Online order of protection for DeKalb, DuPage and Will Counties.

Click on "Forms," then click on "Order of Protection."

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is a form that can be prepared annually by current and prospective college students (undergraduate and graduate) in the United States to determine their eligibility for student financial aid (including the Pell Grant, Federal student loans and Federal Work-Study).

Straightforward and easy to understand information about planning and paying for college.

Making college accessible and affordable for Illinois students.

Here you will find topics covering mind and body issues, school and college, dealing with bullies and violence, driving, sexual health, food and nutrition, and sports.

Magazine, blogs, book series and website written entirely by teens. An excellent resource for teen writers and artists.

Includes absentee and early voting schedule, polling locations and ward and precinct maps.