We can bring the library to your doorstep with Story Door home delivery! Michigan City Public Library proudly provides free access to library materials for our adult and youth patrons who are temporarily or permanently unable to visit the library due to physical or mental disability, vision impairment, illness, injury, or incapacitation.

We can send books, magazines, audio CDs, and more. Delivery and return is by U.S. mail, and the library pays the postage both ways!

June 5 – July 22, 2023

The Summer Reading Program is for all ages and 100% free to participate! For every 10 hours you read, read to someone else, or listen to someone read, you’ll receive a chance in the raffle. Record your reading hours and select the raffle prize you would like to have a chance to win.

Beginning June 5, click here to record your hours and enter the raffle, or scan the QR code. After every 10 hours of reading, you’ll receive another entry for the raffle, so make sure you select which prize you would like to try to win. The last day to record your reading hours and enter the raffle is Saturday, July 22.

For more information, please call Youth Services at 219-873-3045.

Want to learn more about Michigan City history? The library’s 1993 oral history project, Getting There: Oral Histories about Transportation in Michigan City, is now available online as part of Indiana University’s digital collections! Check it out at https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/s7527206b

Thank you to Jeremy Pekarek, Librarian/Archivist at IU Northwest Anderson Library, for digitizing this collection and making it available online.

Getting There is a series of videotaped oral histories focusing on the history of railroads and aviation in Michigan City. This project was initiated and administered by the Michigan City Public Library, co-sponsored by the LaPorte County Historical Society, and funded through an Indiana Heritage Research Grant from 1993-1994.

Interviewees who discuss aviation include: Harry Frey, John Griswold, Dale Phillips, Darin Phillips, Joe Phillips, Tom Ringo, Burton Ruby, Al Spiers, Dorothy Verdos, George Verdos, and Rex Westphal. Those who talk about the city’s railroads include: Lucius Donkle, Steve Eldridge, William Harris, Ed Hedstrom, Henry Kintzele, Jr., and Eugene Moldenhauer.

Stay entertained and informed with the world’s largest collection of digital magazines and newspapers delivered directly to your device or web browser! Instantly access 7,000 titles in more than 60 languages when you download cloudLibrary NewsStand.

All magazines and newspapers are available 24/7, with no limits to the number you can read.

Popular titles include Newsweek, Fast Company, Forbes, Star, The New Yorker, PC Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Us Weekly, Food Network Magazine, Car and Driver, Elle, Popular Mechanics, Prevention, HGTV Magazine, Esquire, and more!

An easy-to-use standalone app offers individual articles, back issues, and an EZ read mode. All you need is your library card! Don’t have a library card? Apply at the Circulation Desk or apply for an eCard.