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Mobile Print Service

Print virtually any document or web page from your Internet connected PC to one of our printers.  No additional software required.

Android and Apple apps available for mobile devices.

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A to Z World Food

Hungry to learn about international cuisine? Visit A to Z Food to learn about foods from around the world.

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Adventure Pass

Adventure Pass is a season pass to the Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines that will be available for check out to Ottumwa Public Library patrons. Patrons can go to the public library’s website and select a day that works for their family to reserve the pass, print their pass, and go to the zoo for free.

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Libby (BRIDGES)

Download Ebooks, audiobooks, and now digital magazines for use on your home computer and other personal electronic devices.

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Brainfuse HelpNow

Brainfuse HelpNow™ provides differentiated learning solutions for users of diverse needs and background. Students communicate with live tutors using an interactive whiteboard to chat, write, draw, copy/paste text or images and graph homework problems.

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Brainfuse JobNow & VetNow

Brainfuse is a versatile online service designed to support every step of the job search process. JobNow features live online coaches who, among other things, assist in resume/cover letter preparation, and help patrons prepare for job interviews.

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth to age five, no matter their family’s income.

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Fortepan Iowa Wapello County

Fortepan Iowa features curated historical photos taken by ordinary Iowans over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The photos represent the personal, whimsical, poetic, significant, and accidentally artistic moments of everyday Iowa life, and tell a rich story of Iowa’s great diversity and complexity.

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The Iowa Locator

Find items located in libraries throughout Iowa that you can borrow from your local library.

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Immigration Help

Immigration Help offers low-income immigrants free legal services for work permit and citizenship applications, as well as useful guides to the immigration process. The site helps low-income immigrants find the help they need.

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NoveList Plus

Search for works by your favorite author. Lookup which book comes next in a series. Find readalikes. Discover new books in your favorite genre.

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Our Online Author Series

Watch presentations from best selling authors online.

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Ottumwa Newspaper Archives

Delve into digitized copies of local Ottumwa newspapers from 1840-2008. Key word searchable newspapers in a downloadable format.

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Ottumwa High School Yearbooks

Search Argus Annuals from 1903-1990 through the digitized copies provided by the Iowa Heritage Collection.

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People's Law Library

The State Library, in partnership with the University of Iowa Law Library, launched the People’s Law Library of Iowa, a legal resource website providing easy to understand information on topics related to Iowa’s laws. The website includes information on legal topics such as consumer law, family law, and landlord/tenant law, as well as guidance on researching legal issues, a glossary of more than 100 legal terms, and more.

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Transparent Language Online

An online language learning resource covering over 100 languages including English as a second language.

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Tumblebooks

The TBL is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, Read-Alongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no animation), TumbleTV which consists of pre-set playlists of a sequence of books and Tumble Puzzles & Games. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children’s book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format.

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Worldcat

Locate materials located in 72,000 libraries throughout the world.

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Beanstack

Beanstack is the app you can use to sign up for the Summer Reading Program at the Ottumwa Public Library. Once you create your account you can log your reading minutes, participate in library challenges and collect your prizes.

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