Downloadable Audio Visual Materials

Boston Public Library downloadable audiobook service. Select from thousands of titles from the latest bestsellers to classics to works for children and teens.

To use this free service you must have a Boston Public Library card. You can get a BPL card at any Boston library branch or online here.

Librivox
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. You can also volunteer to record titles.

Internet Archive : Audio Archive
This library contains over a hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings.

The Boston Public Library now offers OverDrive—a downloadable video service available online. OverDrive includes classics, documentaries, performances, comedy, children’s films, foreign language features, and more.

To use this service you must have a Boston Public Library card. You can get a BPL card at any Boston library branch or online here.

Internet Archive: Movie Archive
Free site for movies, films, and videos. The library contains thousands of digital movies from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to videos of every genre uploaded by Archive users. Many of these movies are available for download.

Click here for a list of BPL’s online music resources.
Scroll down to Audio Sources for downloadable music.

To use this service you must have a Boston Public Library card. You can get a BPL card at any Boston library branch or online here.

African American Song is an online resource that documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.

Classical Music Library is a multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. The collection has 50,000-plus tracks for listening and searching

OverDrive Digital Library Reserve features modern, classical, new age, jazz, electronica, world music, and ambient recordings.

A collection of folk and international recordings from the Smithsonian Archives.