Collection

DVDs And Videos

GRRL's large collection of video on DVD and VHS includes numerous 'how-to' titles, from horse training to watercolor painting.

We have popular movies to suit all interests and a strong collection of children's movies.

The Collection includes hard-to-find titles such as foreign films, silent screen classics and Criterion Collection movies, a brand known for high quality video releases of significant films.

Looking for the best? Try our list of of the American Film Institute's 100 Greatest Movies.

GRRL subscribes to over 450 local and national magazines and newspapers, as well as to a selection of digital, downloadable magazines. All of the magazines are listed on the online catalog and most are available for checkout & request.

Databases & Other Digital Collections

The Library is also online!

Great River Regional Library provides access to a wealth of information and entertainment through our online services. There are many doors to the online world of GRRL.

The library catalog shows you library materials including links to eBooks and eAudiobooks.

Our databases are gold mines of articles from magazines, encyclopedias and other information sources. GRRL subscribes to:

Downloadable Audiobooks

Great River Digital Library with Overdrive provides:

A new "My Help!" function that makes sorting out devices much easier! Or check out the regular Help section.

Language Learning (Pronunciator)

Learning a Language can be a challenge! GRRL resources available to help.

GRRL now offers Pronunciator!

This is an online Language Learning service offering more than 80 languages with interactive quizzes and personalized lesson planning.

To use Pronunciator, click on the link or access it from the Database tab in the catalog.

E-books

GRRL provides access to a E-books from several sources:

Great River Digital Library with Overdrive

GRRL residents* with a valid library card can download eBooks and eAudiobooks to a variety of devices and computers. New titles are added regularly.

Parent's Guide To GRRL Video Collections

Great River Regional Libraries offer a wide variety of Video material on DVD & VHS to meet the needs of library patrons of all ages. GRRL makes this material available with one restriction: material with an MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) R rating cannot be checked out by anyone with a minor card (under 17) or anyone under the age of 17 (minors) on another person's card.

GRRL adds one of three kinds of label information to videos:

Book Club Kits

GRRL provides Book Club Kits, bags or boxes containing multiple copies of a book (usually including an audiobook version and a large print version) as well as a study guide for use by book clubs. The kits check out just like books, but for six (6) weeks instead of three (3).

Audiobooks

Janet Evanovich audiobook Flint Heart audiobook Nora Roberts audiobook

Music On CD

GRRL has music on CD for all ages and musical interests, including rock, folk, popular, world, jazz, classical and children’s favorites.

You will find a shortcut to many of the new titles on the New, Best & Fun tab of our catalog on the Music CDs page.

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