Find and Borrow Books

• Visit MackinVIA
  • Use your Limitless Libraries username and password to log in.
  • Contact your librarian if you need help.
• Classlink
• Schoology

How to Search for Audiobooks

If you want to narrow your search results and only see the audiobooks, for example, under "All Resources," select "Audiobooks" to see what digital audiobooks your school owns and check out the one you want.

• You can read or listen on your MNPS device.
• You also can download the MackinVIA app to read or listen to books on your phone or tablet.
• The book will automatically be returned on the due date, or you may select "return early."

Limitless Libraries gives you access to thousands of e-books and digital audiobooks. Translations are also available.

• Access e-books through Limitless Libraries and Classlink.
  Use your Limitless Libraries username and PIN to log in. Contact your librarian if you need help with this information.
• Select your school and log in to your account.
• Search by title, author, keyword.
• In the search results, you will see a list of formats, such as books, e-book or eAudiobook. Select the version you want and check it out.
• For an e-book, you can choose to download the book in the format of your choice. Common choices are Overdrive, EPUB, or Kindle. To read a book in the Overdrive or EPUB format on a phone or tablet, download the Libby app. Or you can select "Read Online" to read on your computer.

If you only want to search for an e-Audiobook

• On the Limitless Libraries home page, select your school and log in.
• Scroll down and select Downloads - Audiobooks.
• Search the book you want and check it out.
• If you plan to listen on a phone or tablet, download the Libby app to listen to books you've checked out. Or you can listen on your computer.

The e-books and e-Audiobooks are automatically returned on the due date, or you may select "return early."

MNPS school libraries have a nationally-recognized collaborative partnership with Nashville Public Library called Limitless Libraries. This partnership is building the next generation of public library users, and the services are right at their fingertips, their school library.

The program, which began in 2009, serves all MNPS students, teachers, and staff. Limitless Libraries allows MNPS students access to the Nashville Public Library collection, and those items are delivered directly to students in their building. It allows MNPS access to over a million more items.

Limitless Libraries also provides supplemental funding to our school libraries for books, DVDs, databases and Playaways.

Regardless of what school students attend, they have access to a high-quality school librarian and collection. Thanks to our partnership with Limitless Libraries, MNPS students have access to unparalleled amounts of high-quality materials and resources to support their learning. To begin exploring some of these resources, you can browse the online catalogue.

Nashville Public Library Contribution

The Nashville Public Library contributes $1,000,000 in resources and services to MNPS libraries annually. Combined with each school's minimum contribution of $7.50 per student, MNPS libraries are funded at approximately $15.00 per student. 

Learn More About Limitless Libraries