Special Collections @ OTL
The Ontonagon Township Library provides access to a variety of special collections in digital and print formats! (To search our main collection for books and DVDs, use the Enterprise search box at the top of this website.)
Shared Digital Collections
OTL offers over 100,000 e-books and digital audiobooks through the Great Lakes Digital Library and partnered collections using the Libby app, and high quality streaming movies through our Kanopy collection.
Libby works with Android and Apple devices, and materials can also be read or listened to directly from a web browser. Kanopy has streaming apps available for Chromecast, Apple TV, Amazon Fire, and Roku devices, and can be accessed directly from a web browser as well.
Use your library card number and PIN (typically the last 4 digits of your phone number by default) to log in to our online collections.
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BARD
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The BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) platform is available at https://nlsbard.loc.gov/. The program is available to anyone with a visual, auditory, or other reading impairment. For those unfamiliar with BARD, it may be helpful to think of it as a digital supplement to the Great Lakes Talking Books program. |
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The Maureen Guzek Digital Newspaper Archive
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OTL has copies of local newspapers dating back to the 1800s available in JPEG, microfilm, and OCR-searchable PDF. The collection is named in memory of Maureen Guzek, long-time proprietor of The Ontonagon Herald, who was instrumental in helping us fund the digitization project. The archives are available for in-library browsing, or can be copied to personal storage devices for off-site use. The library also occasionally sells pre-loaded USB drives as a fundraiser. There are no plans to make the archives available online at this time due to the financial considerations of developing and running such a web service. (Each PDF is over a gigabyte!) Out-of-town researchers can contact the library for help searching the archives (results may take several business days). |
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Little Free Libraries
OTL maintains three Little Free Library locations around Ontonagon! Anyone can freely borrow or swap books from these self-service boxes during the spring, summer, and fall months. Our Little Free Libraries were built and donated by talented local woodworkers Tom Pestka and Don Chastan. The Little Free Libraries are located at The Ontonagon Village Marina fish cleaning station, the Ontonagon Township Park campground, and the Lakeshore Park near downtown Ontonagon.
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If you find one of our Little Free Library locations low on books, please notify us at info@ontonagonlibrary.org.
Digital Yearbook Collection
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OTL DIGITAL YEARBOOK INDEX 1914 Boulder Browse Now 1915 Boulder Browse Now 1916 Boulder Browse Now 1917 Greenlander Browse Now 1917-1919 Ontonagon County Honor Roll Browse Now 1922 Northern Normal News Browse Now 1925 Boulder Browse Now 1926 Boulder Browse Now 1927 Boulder Browse Now 1928 Boulder Browse Now 1947 Boulder Browse Now 1947 Greenland Hi-Lights Browse Now 1948 Boulder Browse Now 1948 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1949 Boulder Browse Now 1949 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1950 Boulder Browse Now 1950 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1951 Boulder Browse Now 1951 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1952 Boulder Browse Now 1952 Rockland Highlights Browse Now 1953 Boulder Browse Now 1953 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1954 Boulder Browse Now 1954 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1954 Rockland Highlights Browse Now 1955 Boulder Browse Now 1955 Rockland Highlights Browse Now 1956 Boulder Browse Now 1956 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1957 Boulder Browse Now 1958 Boulder Browse Now 1958 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1959 Boulder Browse Now 1959 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1959 Rockland Highlights Browse Now 1960 Boulder Browse Now 1960 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1960 Rockland Highlights Browse Now 1961 Boulder Browse Now 1961 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1961 Rockland Highlights Browse Now 1962 Boulder Browse Now 1962 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1963 Boulder Browse Now 1963 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1963 Rockland Highlights Browse Now 1964 Boulder Browse Now 1964 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1965 Boulder Browse Now 1965 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1966 Boulder Browse Now 1966 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1967 Boulder Browse Now 1967 Mass Adventurer Browse Now 1968 Boulder Browse Now 1969 Boulder Browse Now 1970 Boulder Browse Now 1971 Boulder Browse Now 1972 Boulder Browse Now 1974 Boulder Browse Now 1975 Boulder Browse Now 1976 Boulder Browse Now 1977 Boulder Browse Now 1978 Boulder Browse Now 1979 Boulder Browse Now 1980 Boulder Browse Now 1981 Boulder Browse Now 1982 Boulder Browse Now 1983 Boulder Browse Now 1984 Boulder Browse Now 1985 Boulder Browse Now 1986 Boulder Browse Now 1987 Boulder Browse Now 1988 Boulder Browse Now 1990 Boulder Browse Now 1991 Boulder Browse Now 1992 Boulder Browse Now 1992 Ontonagon Elementary Browse Now 1993 Boulder Browse Now 1993 Ontonagon Elementary Browse Now 1994 Boulder Browse Now 1995 Ontonagon Elementary Browse Now |
Frequently Asked Questions about the OTL Digital Yearbook Collection Q: Why isn’t the yearbook from 19XX available? Q: Why isn’t the yearbook from 20XX available? Q: I don’t use Facebook, why are these all on Facebook? Q: I need a print-quality image/I can’t read the text on this image/can these be blown up any further? Q: I have a copy of a yearbook missing from the collection. Do you want it? Q: If I bring in my personal copy of a missing yearbook can you scan it and add it to the Digital Yearbook Collection? Q: Somebody tagged me in an unflattering yearbook picture on Facebook. Can you remove it? Q: Boulder? What does that mean? |
Andrew Lockhart Genealogy Collection
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Ontonagon's Andrew Lockhart was well-known to amateur genealogists and historians of the area. He did an enormous amount of work looking into local families and Ontonagon's early history. Upon his passing, the Ontonagon Township Library was honored to receive his personal library of genealogical and genealogy-adjacent books. The items in this collection are currently reserved for in-library research use, and are not labeled for checkout or interlibrary loan. |
Local Videos
The following YouTube videos were digitized from OTL's VHS archives. We hope to digitize more videos of local interest in the future.
Mass City Centennial (1999)
North Country Renaissance Tax Free Zone (1999)
Mel e-Resources
The Michigan e-Library (MeL) maintains a large collection of useful databases. All users located in Michigan are able to access these resources to find articles, reports, diagrams, statistics, homework help, reference materials, ebooks, and more! Use the buttons below to try out some of their most popular databases.
