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Borrowing eBooks From the Library: Adding a New Library to Your Libby App

Cards at Other New York Libraries

As a New York State resident, you are also eligible for library cards at the New York Public, Brooklyn Public, and Queens Public Libraries. To obtain cards, apply on the respective libraries' websites below.

New York Public Library

Brooklyn Public Library

Queens Public Library

Access to Mid-Hudson and Upper Hudson

Anyone with a Southern Adirondack Library System card now has access to Mohawk Valley, Mid-Hudson, and Upper Hudson Library System ebook collections. To add access to these libraries:

  • Go to the Settings menu in the Libby app
  • Tap Add Library
  • Search for Mohawk Valley, Mid-Hudson, or Upper Hudson
  • Tap the library name
  • Tap "sign in with my card"
  • Under "Partner Libraries" tap Southern Adirondack Library System
  • Sign in with your normal Southern Adirondack Library System card number

You now have the ability to browse and search Mohawk Valley, Mid-Hudson and Upper Hudson by toggling between libraries on the search page in Libby.

How to Add a New Library to Your Libby App

To add a new library to your Libby app, tap the Libby icon in the bottom center of the app screen:

 

Select the option to "Add a Library":

 

Search for the Library by name or by location. Once you have found the library and selected it, it will ask you to type in your card number for that library. Please see the special instructions to the left to add the Mohawk Valley, Upper Hudson, and Mid-Hudson Library Systems as partner libraries.

 

In order to switch between searching different library's ebook collections, on your search page, tap the name of the library near the top of the page:

 

This will bring up a list of all of the libraries you have added to your Libby app, and you can select which library's collection you would like to search:

 

If you need to place a hold on a title, Libby will still add you to the hold list for whichever library has the shortest list for that title. All of the items you check out will all show up in a single list on your Shelf.