Digital Resources

Explore magazines, newspaper articles, and ebooks online.

NEWSPAPERS.COM

Discover the historic newspapers of North Carolina! North Carolina newspapers (1751-the present) are available from the comfort of your own home. Log-in with your McDowell County Public Library card number to gain access to over 3 million pages, 1,909 papers, obituaries, birth announcements, marriages and more. Browse by location, year, and paper or search via keywords.

NC LIVE

NC LIVE offers free electronic access to resources on topics ranging from careers, business, and investing, to health, history, and genealogy.

Not sure where to start?  Try researching NC Live’s databases by topic.

Chilton Auto Repair Library

Includes repair manuals of automobiles from 1940 to 2016.  Access the database from any internet-enabled device.

e-iNC Library

Available through Libby, you can now download over 12,000 materials to your internet-enabled device with your library card.  While boasting a large fiction collection, you can also find cookbooks, memoirs, study guides, and the latest medical titles here as well.  Items return themselves, so you’ll never have a late fee.