Libby the Israeli Digital Library is a unique and innovative system for borrowing digital and audio books, which was founded in 2017 by the Israel Centre of Libraries for the public libraries in Israel. The libraries fund the project and provide the service to their reader-audience free of charge.
The technological platform is provided by OverDrive, an international company specializing in the development and establishment of digital libraries for public and school libraries all over the world.
The system allows public libraries to provide their readers with a service for borrowing digital and audio books in addition to paper books. It has been successfully operating for many years in thousands of libraries around the world and allows reading and listening to books in a synchronized use between a plethora of devices – computers, mobile phones, tablets, e-readers and more. The collection includes digital and audio books in many languages: Hebrew, English, Arabic, Russian, French and Spanish.
The Israeli Digital Library and the correlating app (Libby) operate as a single home for all the digital reading and listening needs of the readers:
- The Israeli Digital Library – interface available in Hebrew and Arabic, available on any browser.
- The Libby App – English interface only with special and unique features, available through any app store.
Libraries interested in subscribing to the Libby services – please contact the Libby team in the Israeli Centre of Libraries (contact info below).
Readers interested in signing up to Libby the Israeli Digital Library – you must be registered as readers in a public library with a Libby subscription.
- Check with the library in your town if they have a subscription.
- If they don't, you could try registering as an external reader in a library with a subscription (for a charge, a deposit or for free – depending on the library).
- Make sure you are already registered as readers in the library or sign up.
- Ask your library for your reader's number and, if needed, your password as well (not every library uses passwords).
- Sign in to Libby with your reader's number! (A Hebrew sign-in guide is available in the Hebrew version of our site, and an English guide is available on the Libby help website.)
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