Playaway

Welcome to the
Acton Memorial Library!

"Playaway" audiobooks now available!


2010 Summer Reading Program "Go Green At Your Library,"
the 2010 Summer Reading Program is underway! Visit the Children's Department for details.

Going on vacation?
Stop requests from being filled while you're away.
Click HERE to find out how.


Mango LanguagesTraveling this summer? MangoLanguages now includes 22 new foreign language language basic courses. Learn more HERE.


Genealogists:  Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 with full images, is now available through the New England Ancestors service.  Click HERE to access the database from any library computer. (Access is limited to library computers).


LearningExpressLearningExpress Library includes dozens of civil service and career tests, as well as basic computer courses, and job search skills training. For a brochure listing all available content, click HERE.  For additional details, click HERE.


The Minuteman Library Network now offers downloadable audiobooks and e-books from Overdrive.
Click to access Overdrive downloadable audiobooks and ebooks

Acton residents may also download audiobooks from Netlibrary.

Log-in to Netlibrary

ReferenceUSACLICK HERE for JOB HUNTING RESOURCES, including books, web sites, databases and workshops.

How efficient are your small appliances and electronic devices?  The library now has three Kill A Watt electricity usage monitors available for loan to Acton residents. Click HERE for details.
Kill-A-Watt

Chinese Language Materials

Search the Minuteman Library Network with Chinese character input! Click HERE for a list of ALL Chinese materials in the Minuteman Network Catalog.  Click HERE to learn more.


ConsumerReports.org

The library now subscribes to the ConsumerReports.org web site, with home access for Acton residents! For more information click HERE.

Research stocks, mutual funds and ETFs online with Morningstar Investment Research CenterClick HERE for details.
Morningstar
 

William Allan Wilde gave the Acton Memorial Library to the Town as a memorial to its Civil War veterans in 1890. The building was expanded in 1967, and a second major expansion and renovation was completed in 1999.