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Downloadable ebooks, audiobooks, video, music, and more, paid for by your local, regional, and state libraries, with your Kent County Public Library card.
- Overdrive EBooks, Audiobooks & Video
- Downloadable Adobe ebooks, Audiobooks, and video. View the guided tour for more information.
- Classical Music Library
- Classical music ranges from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde.
- Smithsonian Global Sound
- American Folk Music covers icons such as Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and hundreds of others; freedom and protest songs from the Civil Rights era; the music of every cultural group, from Cajun to Alaskan; Ella Jenkins’s children’s songs; and music to represent America’s entire history. World music includes traditional music from more than 150 countries; nations’ histories in song; counting games, childhood songs, holiday tunes, stories, and sing-alongs from around the world. Spoken word and sounds include artists such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Dubois, Mahalia Jackson, Sterling Brown, and others performing their own works; political speeches; oral histories; biographies; sounds of the rainforest and of the galaxies.
- African American Song
- African American music covers every form (blues, jazz, gospel, etc.) and includes recordings by the fifty top names in the history of black American music—artists such as Ma Rainey, Lead Belly, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, William "Bunk" Johnson, Duke Ellington, Sophie Tucker, Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Sarah Vaughn, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Big Joe Williams, Memphis Jug Band, Roosevelt Sykes, Dizzy Gillespie, Chicago River Kings, Muddy Waters, Skip James, Blind Willie McTell, Lonnie Johnson, Alberta Jones, Johnny Shines, and Memphis Minnie.
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