Editing Boston Public Library (section)

===Digital services===
The library offers a variety of digital services and collections. The online catalog, also available for mobile devices, allows users to browse and place holds on materials including books, audiobooks, DVDs, and CDs. Users can also download ebooks, e-audiobooks, music, and video through BPL's OverDrive site and check out Zinio magazines for the computer, tablet, or smartphone. Library card holders and e-card holders can also stream movies, television shows, music, and audiobooks through Hoopla Streaming Media.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Boston Public Library Expands Digital Offerings through Free Streaming Media Service |url=http://www.bpl.org/press/category/media-releases/page/8/ |location=Press Room |publisher=BPL.org |agency=Boston Public Library |date=2014-03-25 |access-date=2014-07-10}}</ref>

Many of the Boston Public Library's collections are available to the public online, including rare books and manuscripts, the anti-slavery manuscript collection, historical children's books, the John Adams Library, historic maps from the [[Norman B. Leventhal Map Center]], historical images, prints, and photographs, sound archives, and silent films.<ref name="Perille"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpl.org/collections/online/index.htm|publisher=Bpl.org|title= Boston Public Library - Online Collections |access-date=2014-07-08}}</ref> Many of the library's digitized works can be found either through the Boston Public Library Flickr page<ref>{{cite web|title=Boston Public Library|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/|website=Flickr|date=19 November 2019 }}</ref> or through their collections on the Digital Commonwealth.<ref>{{cite web|title=Boston Public Library|url=https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/institutions/commonwealth:sf268508b|website=Digital Commonwealth}}</ref>