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Drury Library does not currently handle Audio Books. If you are a patron of your local  public libraries you can check there; most public libraries do have audio books to check out.

The Library provides access to netLIbrary which is a collection of E-books. You will need your Drury ID/Password to login.The following are web sites where you can find electronic books.

• ABU: La biblioteque universelle
  Full text classics in French.
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
  "A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy."
• BitBlioteca
  Full text materials in Spanish covering many subject areas.
• Ebooks
  Contains around 150,000 electronic books, including U.S. government publications, public domain books published prior to 1923, and e-books from commercial services that Drury may or may not subscribe to.
• Electronic Text Center (UVA)
  A collection of about 70 thousand humanities texts in 13 languages; some are still copyrighted.
• Internet Archive
  An international venture by the Open Content Alliance to digitize public domain texts and media for use by reseachers, historians, scholars, and the general public; currently contains Moving Images, Live Music Archive, Audio, and Texts.
• netLibrary
  A collection of more than 14,000 electronic books in all subject areas. Drury has access to this.
• Project Bartleby
  Full text access to public domain reference works, verse, fiction, and nonfiction.
• Project Gutenberg
  A still expanding collection of thousands of public domain books (generally pre-1923) available for free downloading and use.