Digital Download Center - Our portal to downloadable e-books for Kindle, Nook and other readers, along with audiobooks for media players. Provided in cooperation with other Wisconsin public libraries.

On-Line Magazines Collections

• General Magazines - Full text (read/print/download/email) articles from 1,700 magazines.
• Business and Academic - Full text (read/print/download/email) articles from 5,000 business and academic magazines.
• Medical - Full text (read/print/download/email) articles from 1,300 medical magazines and journals.

For Students

• General Magazines - Full text (read/print/download/email) articles from 1,700 magazines. Click on CITE to get the appropriate citation for your bibliography.
• Learning Express  - Practice tests and tutorials, including PSAT, ACT, ASVAB and AP tests, MSOffice tutorials and much more.
• Literature Resource Center - Biographies, bibliographies, critical articles about authors and books, designed for students writing English assignments.
• Britannica Online
• Transparent Language  - A language learning site that covers over 70 languages.
• NoveList Plus and Novelist K-8 - Book reviews, annotations, etc., for over 200,000 titles. Helpful whether you are looking for something to read or preparing a report.
• NewspaperArchive - Historical newspaper articles from 5,000 newspapers.
• Business, Health and Academic Magazines - Provides full text access to thousands of specialized magazines.

For Business / Job Seekers

• Business Magazines - Full text (read/print/download/email) articles from 2,300 business magazines.
• AtoZ Company Database - Detailed corporate information.
• Transparent Language - A language learning site that covers over 70 languages.
• Learning Express - Practice job tests, MSOffice tutorials.
• InvestorEdge -  Stock fundamentals and picks.
• Career Cruising - Tools to find the right career, explore education and training options, and build a portfolio.
• Other Resources for Job Seekers

For Readers

• Download EBooks/Audiobooks - Includes access to ebooks for Kindles, Nooks and other e-readers.
• NoveList - Book reviews, annotations, etc., for over 200,000 titles.
• Literature Resource Center - Biographies, bibliographies, critical articles about authors and books, perfect for readers and book clubs.
• WorldCat - Search the contents of the world's libraries.
• Book Club Kits - Multiple copies of popular titles available through Madison Public Library.

For Local History / Genealogy

• Rapids/Wood Co. History
• Rapids/Wood Co. Genealogy
• HeritageQuest - Census records.
• Newspaper Archive - Historical newspaper articles from 5,000 newspapers.
• Ancestry (in-library only) - A major source of genealogical records.
• Wisconsin Heritage Online - A state-wide collection of photographs and documents.

For Teachers and Educators

• Education Research Complete - Full text for more than 1,060 journals and 133 books and monographs.
• Professional Development Collection - A highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles.
• TeachingBooks Educator Area - Resources include hundreds of thematic and authoritative K-12 booklists and customized "Eye-on-the-Web" reports identifying and instantly connecting you to book and author materials that meet your specific grade level and subject areas of interest.

Other On-Line Resources

• Consumer Health Complete - Health and wellness reference books, encyclopedias, reports and fact sheets.
• ECB VideoLink - Video programs for Wisconsin's K-12 students and teachers, available via streaming or download.
• GreenFILE  - Scholarly, government and general-interest titles on the human impact on the environment.
• LitFinder - Full-text poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays; plus biographies, summaries, etc.
• LISTA - Index to librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, etc.
• Newspaper Source Plus - Full-text newspapers and articles, plus television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts.
• Soundzabound - Music and sound effects that are copyright compliant, content safe and royalty free for K-12 school use.
• Wisconsin Newspapers Digital Research - Daily and weekly newspapers in Wisconsin, starting in 2005 to the present, with an embargo delay of 60 days.