e-Resources / Research
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Overdrive is a FREE online digital media service available to all patrons. Overdrive is accessible with a Westchester Library card. A patron may download, checkout, organize, burn and transfer best-sellers in digital format. Try out the newest in library technologies in the comfort of your home! Overdrive Advantage are titles specifically purchased for Mount Kisco Public Library card holders. |
Note: At-home access to items marked with an red 
indicating access is limited to Mount Kisco cardholders.
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Freading is one of the Library's eBook collections. eBooks are available in ePub and/or PDF format. Click on the logo to access Freading. |
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Freegal is a downloadable music service that the Westchester Library System subscribes to. All you need to access the service is your Westchester Library card. You do not need any special software to use the service and all songs are in MP3 format with no Digital Rights Management (DRM). |
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OneClickdigital is a new audiobook download service being offered to InfoSoup library card holders. OneClickdigital provides access to more than 3800 always available audiobook titles published by Recorded Books. |
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With MorningStar you can track your investments, access daily market news and commentary, view snapshots on investments, and interact in forums. Follow your current holdings and keep tabs on new opportunities. |
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Pronunciator is a fun and easy way to learn any of 60 languages.
Register for free and start learning - at your own pace! |
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Muzzy online language course for kids. Available to MKPL card holders. |
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Access to the Westchester Library Systems vast digital resources is available here. Click on the logo to the left to access these resources. |
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You will need a valid active Westchester Library System Library Card to use these resources. Click on the logo to the left to access these resources. |
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Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Each Learning Center offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want. |
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Job Information Center
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The library's Job Information Center contains materials on career planning, resumes, small business and more.
FirstFind is a website that connects you to useful information and tools about education, jobs and families. Firstfind also provides links to agencies in Westchester that can give you more information and help about these topics. Click on the logo to the left for more information. |
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Whatever your goal, LearningExpress Library's resources will help you succeed. Each of our Learning Centers offers the practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You'll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that's right for you. |
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Facing a difficult work situation? Need help planning or managing your career? Thinking about work options you have after 50? Westchester LIbrary System (WLS) runs specialized programs with trained professionals to guide you in your career path. |
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Mount Kisco History
The New York State Board of Regents chartered the Mount Kisco Public Library on March 31, 1910. The Library is governed by a Board of Trustees who set policy, oversee the Library budget and perform other vital functions. Board members are elected to three year terms.
Mount Kisco Historical Society
Eva Marshall - President (Primary Contact - MK Historical Society and Archives)
Home: (914) 666-5390, Cell: (914) 391-8921
Email: jackmevat@gmail.com
Mount Kisco Historian
Harold McCartney
60 Barker St. Apt 216
Mount Kisco, NY 10549
Home: (914) 666-7708, Cell: (914) 589-9784
Email: MCCTNEY@PRODIGY.NET
Mount Kisco Public Library Newspaper Holdings on Microfilm:
- Mount Kisco Recorder, 1877-1891
- Mount Kisco Recorder, 1914-1940
- New Castle Tribune, 1928-1959
- North Castle Times/New Castle Tribune, 1959-1963
- Patent Trader, 1958-2007
- Reporter Dispatch, 1980-1/1998
Historical Maps:
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| Westchester Heritage map (2.7MB) from the book "Atlas of the Village/Town of Mount Kisco" compiled by Frances Cook Lee. |
Westchester County Under the Mohegan Indians, 1608 (1.1MB) from “The History of Westchester County” by Robert Bolton, 1848. |
Map of the Manors (565kB) compiled from Manor Grants and Ancient Maps from “History of Westchester County” J. Thomas Scharf, editor. |
Map of Boundry Dispute, (111kB) from “Bedford Historical Rcords” volume 1, page ix. |
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| 1797 Map of the Township of Bedford (635kB) prepared by Charles Webb. |
1797 Map of the Township of New Castle (336kB) prepared by William Adams modified to show fifteen road districts as prepared by Francis Cook Lee. |
Bedford’s Eight purchases from the Indians, including the Hopp Ground purchase of 1680 (shaded area). From “Bedford Historical Records”, volume IV, page ix. |
Bedford Village original Land Allotments 1680 - 1685 (528kB) from “Bedford Historical Records” volume II, page 176 |
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| Distribution of Lots in the Great Plain laid out in 1690 (123kB) from “Bedford Historical Records” volume II, page 181 |
Bedford West Purchase 1700 - 1738 (545kB) An Interpretive Map Prepared from the Record Set Down by John Copp as Clerk to the Proprietors of the West Purchase from “Bedford Historical Records” volume II, pages 262-263 |
Surveyor’s Map Drawn for the Division Among the Town’s Twenty-nine Patentees of the 1723 Purchase from the Indians (332kB) from “Bedford Historical Records” volume II, page viii |
Bedford Township about 1725 (258kB) drawn from highway and land records of the time by A. I. Bernhard. from ‘Katonah, The History of a New York Village and Its People by F. R. Duncombe, pages 66-67 |
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| Holdings of Van Cortlandt heirs (262kB) Originally prepared in 1743 by Samuel Purdy to show the Bedford lands owned by heirs of Jacobus Van Cortlandt. from “Katonah, The History of a New York Village and Its People” by F. R. Duncombe, pages 146-147 |
Division of Bedford’s Largest Land Holding: 1738-1787 (434kB) from “Bedford Historical Records” volume II, page viii |
Military Routes through Bedford. from “Bedford Historical Records” volume II, page 288 |
Military Routes through Bedford. from “Bedford Historical Records” volume II, page 288 |
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| Surveys in New York and Connecticut States for His Excellency General Washington, 1778 (700kB) from Robert Erskine, DeWitt Map (Courtesy of the New-York Historical Society) |
The Bedford Area in 1779 (184kB) Buildings and sites referred in eyewitness accounts on 1858 Westchester County Map. (from “The Burning of Bedford July 1779”) |
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MORE COMING SOON
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