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Driven by our mission to maximize admission to knowledge, State Library gives libraries greater remedy for the acquisition and delivery of ebooks and audiobooks and makes more diverse ebooks readily available to libraries along with patrons while advocating for the requirements libraries inside the marketplace. State Library's ebook work is held by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. .

The State Library Exchange is the only e-content marketplace built by libraries, for libraries. State Library Exchange member libraries can acquire a wide range of open and licensed ebooks and audiobooks on the perfect terms.

With the help of our Curation Corps of volunteer librarians, State Library has created an amount of greater than millions free ebooks available for instant download. We also support Open Ebooks, a course that delivers free use of ebooks for kids in low-income communities.

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State Library is proud that can help lead the growing community of libraries using SimplyE as well as the Library Simplified open-source software, developed and hosted by The New York Public Library.

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