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News, Newspapers, and Magazines

Access some of the best-selling digital magazines with Flipster.  Flipster makes it easy to read your favorites, either on your internet browser or via mobile device app.  Titles include:  Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Kiplinger Retirement Report, People, Time, and many more. 

View the eResources Loan Table for specific information about checkout limits, loan periods, holds, renewals and suggested audience level. 

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The premier collection of newspaper and funeral home obituaries and death notices with coverage dating back to the 1700s across all U.S. states, territories and the District of Columbia. 

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Get seven days of unlimited access to more than 100 popular magazines.  Titles include Us Weekly, Good Housekeeping, Prevention, Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, In Touch, TIME, and much more. 

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Using Hoopla at the Northbrook Public Library 

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Access over 100 full-text journals and magazines, primary sources, books, newspapers and videos on LGBTQ+ studies, including an LGBTQ+ thesaurus of over 9,000 terms.  (Select titles may either be viewed via internet browser or as downloadable PDFs) 

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Libby offers thousands of eMagazines on internet browsers or on mobile devices that support the Libby App. 

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Using Libby at the Northbrook Public Library 

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Access over 2,000 popular full-text magazines and journals covering virtually every subject area.  Plus, explore over 55,000 full-text primary source documents and over 75,000 Associated Press videos.  Includes access to EBSCO’s MasterFILE Complete Reference eBook Collection.  (Select titles may either be viewed via internet browser or as downloadable PDFs) 

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The National Geographic Society, one of the world’s largest nonprofit educational and scientific organizations, has published the iconic National Geographic Magazine since its founding in 1888. 

Coverage includes: 

> 1888-1994 (Courtesy of Gale Virtual Library)
> August 2021-current (Courtesy of Libby) 

Using Libby at the Northbrook Public Library