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165 Main St. Matawan, NJ  07747
Phone: 732-583-9100
Email: info@mapl.org 

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App Downloads Library

The STELLA App

Place holds on items across all Stella member libraries and choose your pickup location. Manage your library account: view holds, checkouts, and renew items. Store a digital copy of your library card on your device so you always have it with you.

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Books and Audiobooks

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eLibrary NJ – Libby App (View tutorial)

eLibraryNJ offers access to ebooks and audiobooks with your Matawan-Aberdeen Library Card. When signing in, select “STELLA” as your library. You can download 5 items at a time for 7, 14 or 21 days.

Click here to get started with Libby.

iOS | Android | Web

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Freading (View tutorial)

Freading is a downloadable eBook service from Library Ideas and has over 8,000 titles with more being added each day. Freading eBooks are available with simultaneous access so there are no holds needed—an unlimited number of library customers may download a Freading eBook title at the same time. Freading offers fiction and nonfiction eBooks in all genres as well as a top download and new arrivals section. All you need is a library card.

iOS | Android | Web

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Hoopla (View tutorial)

Hoopla provides access to thousands of movies, television shows, music albums, comics, ebooks, and audiobooks. Sign up for an account with your valid Matawan-Aberdeen Public Library card number, or visit your device’s app store to download the free hoopla mobile app. Borrow a maximum of 5 items per month (borrow audiobooks, ebooks, and comics for 21 days, music albums for 7 days, and movies/television shows for 3 days). 

iOS | Android | Web

TV and Movies

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Hoopla (View tutorial)

Hoopla provides access to thousands of movies, television shows, music albums, comics, ebooks, and audiobooks. Sign up for an account with your valid Matawan-Aberdeen Public Library card number, or visit your device’s app store to download the free hoopla mobile app. Borrow a maximum of 5 items per month (borrow audiobooks, ebooks, and comics for 21 days, music albums for 7 days, and movies/television shows for 3 days). 

iOS | Android | Web

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Kanopy (View tutorial)

Stream feature films, award-winning documentaries, film festival favorites, indie and classic films, and world films with collections from The Criterion Channel, Music Box Films, Samuel Goldwyn, The Orchard, The Great Courses, PBS, BBC, and thousands of independent filmmakers. Sign up for an account with your valid Matawan-Aberdeen Public Library card number, or visit your device’s app store to download the free Kanopy mobile app. Cardholders are entitled to 5 checkouts per month and each checkout is active for a three day period. 

iOS | Android | Web

Education

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Udemy (View tutorial)

Udemy features a collection of more than 3,500 online video courses taught by world-class instructors. The top-rated courses offer upskilling in the areas of business, tech, and personal development across 75+ different categories such as web development, cloud computing, leadership & management, finance & accounting, office productivity, and so much more.

iOS | Android | Web

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Brainfuse Help Now (User Guide)

On demand, anytime, anywhere eLearning for all ages and levels. Brainfuse HelpNow™ provides differentiated learning solutions for users of diverse needs and background. Students communicate with live tutors using an interactive whiteboard to chat, write, draw, copy/paste text or images and graph homework problems.

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Mango Languages (View tutorial)

Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and many more. Mango Languages also offers English lessons tailored to a selection of native languages.

iOS | Android | Web

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Creatvebug

Creativebug offers high quality arts and crafts instructional videos. Learn how to paint, knit crochet, sew, bake, and more.

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Music

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Freegal Music

Freegal® Music is a free music service from your library. Freegal offers 3 downloads per week and now offers unlimited streaming! The catalog includes over 16 million songs, millions of albums, hundreds of curated playlists, the ability to create your own playlists, thousands of audio books and thousands of music videos. In total the collection is comprised of music from over 40,000+ labels with music that originates in over 100 countries. 

iOS | Android | Web

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Hoopla (View tutorial)

Hoopla provides access to thousands of movies, television shows, music albums, comics, ebooks, and audiobooks. Sign up for an account with your valid Matawan-Aberdeen Public Library card number, or visit your device’s app store to download the free hoopla mobile app. Borrow a maximum of 5 items per month (borrow audiobooks, ebooks, and comics for 21 days, music albums for 7 days, and movies/television shows for 3 days). 

iOS | Android | Web

Magazines

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Libby Magazine (View tutorial)

Libby allows you to download popular magazines to your computer, tablet or mobile device. Over 3000 magazines are now available including: Bon Appetit, Good Housekeeping, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Seventeen, and much, much more!!

Click here to get started with Libby.

Libby magazine FAQ

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165 Main St., Matawan, NJ 07747
Phone: 732-583-9100
Email: info@mapl.org

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
  10am – 9pm
Tuesday & Friday
  10am – 6pm
Saturday
  9am – 1pm (summer)
  9am – 5pm (after Labor Day)
Sunday
  12pm – 5pm

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