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This custom search engine searches newspapers that serve the district member towns.  For passwords to the Gardner News, Fitchburg Sentinel, and T&G, click here (Monty Tech only).

Commonwealth eBook Collections:

On your portable device, download the SORA app. Watch the VIDEO to learn how.

Click: "My school isn't listed" and tap MLS Commonwealth Collections.or Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School. Sign in with your montytech.net account.  Read or listen in a browser.  To expand your options, link your public library card and/or Boston Public Library card to SORA (see directions below or watch the VIDEO).  In the app, click in the corner and add a library. 

Free Boston Public Library Card:
Get a FREE ecard from the Boston Public Library ONLINE.  Add the BPL to your SORA app for more books.  Detailed instructions are here!  The BPL eCard gives you online access to apps to borrow audiobooks and ebooks, among other things like research databases and movies. Here is the link to register for an e-card.

Click here if using a computer and downloading ebooks to a Kindle or Nook. Choose Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School.  Click on your Monty Tech account.  Take out three at a time (21-day loan). Move over to your Nook using Adobe Digital Editions or your Kindle. Or read or listen in a browser. 

Monty Tech's Destiny Discover:  Download the Destiny Discover app to find books and ebooks in our catalog.  Use your montytech login and password to login and download books.

Step-by-step instructions for borrowing Library books (VIDEO!):

1. Browse our Library Catalog. Search for a book title, author, or subject.
2. Click on the Title of the book you'd like to borrow.
3. Log in with your Monty Tech username (not your email) and password and click on HOLD.
4. We will retrieve the books and put them aside for you. If you can't find the book you want or you are having trouble with our system, use this form or send an email.  Return books to the Book Drop outside the library.

These tools are Google Extensions and FREE. They will make it easier for you to read (and some have special features)

- Select and play - Dictionaries - Screen mask - Highlights and Collect highlights - Simplify page	- Immersive Reader - Change font - Themes/backgrounds - Text size, spacing,  - Pronounce words - Line Focus	- Removes all ads - Text size - Sans font - Theme (light/dark) - Print-friendly	- Change all font to  OpenDyslexic - Easy toggle on and off
- Instant switch for all features - Font/background - Shrink or hide images - Read aloud has instant screen mask and underlines words in red	- Text to Speech - Highlight/dictionary - Display options - Font - Spacing (letter, line and word) - Background color	- Google Speech to Text with Docs - Zoom - Dictionary	- Open Dyslexia font - Audiobooks

• To see current bookings, click here.
• For detailed instructions, click here.

MyBib.com provides free citations for MLA, APA, and Chicago style. Create a new Project & Add a Citation.  Choose website, book, journal, video, etc.  For database articles, click More then Write/Paste.  To copy or print your final product, click on Download Bibliography.  Click here for handout. Watch the video!

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Resources for English, History, Math, Science, Vocational, Foreign Language, Alternative Learning, and College/Career.