Magazines & Newspapers

Libby, the library reading app by OverDrive, offers access to over 4,000 digital magazines across various genres and languages. These magazines are always available, don’t count against borrowing limits, and can be read instantly—no holds or waitlists required.

As a South Plainfield Public Library patron, you have free online access to everything The New York Times has to offer, including News, Games, Cooking, Wirecutter product reviews, and The Athletic!

Full-text searchable database for the Home News Tribune, Courier-News and many others; most from 1999 to the present. To search only a specific newspaper, click on PUBLICATIONS and enter the title of the publication, e.g., Courier-News. To search the entire U.S. Northeast Newsstream, click on CHANGE DATABASES, then select US Northeast Newsstream Search and unselect the others. Proquest also provides access to a Coronavirus Research Database, Education Research Index, and Publicly Available Content Database (from a number of different sources around the world), as well as Magazines, Reference Works, Scholarly Journals, Books, Videos & Audio, Dissertations & Theses, and more. NOTE: ProQuest is fully compatible with smartphones and tablets.

This site contains a digitized collection of local historical materials, including Newspapers (South Plainfield Chronicle, South Plainfield Observer, South Plainfield Reporter, South Plainfield Review), Documents, Maps, and Scrapbooks.