The Hillside Public Library is proud to present Zinio for Libraries to its patrons. Zinio, the world”s largest newsstand, offers full color, interactive digital magazines for your enjoyment. Browse from your library”s collection of popular titles with no holds, no checkout periods, and no limit to the number of magazines you can download.

Zinio can be used online by first visiting Zinio, either by using the presented link or by clicking the online casino Zinio icon on the sidebar. You can then enter your library card and creating an account. You can also download Zinio to your iPad or an Android device once you are registered. However, after downloading the Zinio for Libraries app, a login is required.  Since this is a SHARED collection, patrons must select the following:  Country=United States, State=Maryland, Library Name= Popular 50eMagazine Collection and then enter email and password.  Your library name will not appear in the drop down box so this is very important.

For additional information regarding using Zinio for Libraries, check out this Zinio User Guide as well as the Android Mobile App Guide and the iPad Mobile App Guide.

Renovation has now started on the library. We are painting the walls as well as painting, fixing, and replacing the ceiling. After this work is completed we will have new carpeting installed. As you see the areas are a mess and our staff is working hard to put all the items back in order. As the contractors move through the building there will be areas that will be unavailable. They are working in public areas in the morning while we are closed and then continuing to finish as quickly as possible without major inconveniences to our patrons.

We appreciate your patience and the improvements will make the library a more attractive and pleasant place to visit. We hope you enjoy the end results. If you are interested, check out the photos below to see the current progress.

Children’s Area

Magazine Area

Excellent news Patrons! The Hillside Public Library has a new and improved catalog. To access the new catalog and all its new features, go to https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/hss. New features include checking out ebooks within the catalog, the ability to change the location of where you pick up holds, and a more advanced search system that will even let you see the entirety of the Library’s collection all at once.

Attention Patrons! The Hillside Public Library is making it easy for patrons to provide title recommendations for their digital collection. Library card holders can check out and enjoy eBooks, audiobooks, and video in the library’s collection anytime, anywhere by visiting mediaondemand.org.

In addition to titles that are available for users to borrow or join a wait list, the Hillside Public Library is providing visitors to their digital collection additional titles to discover, sample and recommend to library. Now readers have the option to discover and sample excerpts from hundreds of thousands of “Additional Titles” beyond their library’s collection. Via “Recommend to Library” links, users can also suggest titles they’d like to see added to the catalog, giving the library a new method of patron-driven acquisition. For more information on this process, check out this article.

Visit mediaondemand.org today to browse the collection and borrow or recommend titles with a valid library card. Borrowed titles will automatically expire at the end of the lending period. There are no late fees! The Media on Demand digital collection, powered by OverDrive, is free for patrons with their library card. To get started enjoying eBooks, audiobooks, and video, visit mediaondeamand.org.

EXCITING NEWS!! The SWAN catalog will be upgraded to a new system on April 14th! Please take a look at SWAN’s brand new patron support site here.

Please log into your account to see important notes about logging in to the new system.

The catalog web address (https://catalog.swanlibraries.net) will remain the same. However if you’ve bookmarked pages within the catalog those will probably need to be updated.