The Portsmouth Public Library now offers magazine downloads through the Overdrive/Libby service. Overdrive recently acquired RBDigital, so they are merging content onto their Libby platform and the old RBDigital interface is going away.

Visit our page on Overdrive/Libby to learn more!

Download Audiobooks, Ebooks, & Magazines by visiting Overdrive, through your web browser, or downloading their app which is available for Android and iOS devices.

At the Portsmouth Public Library, a world of information and entertainment awaits you with your library card.

View the entire Portsmouth Library Catalog online.

In April of 1881 the Portsmouth City Council passed an ordinance creating a public library.

The ordinance read in part,

"That to promote intelligence among all classes of the community, a Public Library for the use of all our citizens subject to such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary and proper for its maintenance and government be and hereby is established."

A Library Board of Trustees was established to carry out that mission and promote library service.