Learning a Language? Try Mango!

The Swampscott Public Library now subscribes to Mango Languages, a web site that teaches practical conversation skills for more than 20 different foreign languages as well as English as a second language. It’s available to any Swampscott resident with a valid library card and an internet connection. It’s the fast, easy and effective way to learn to speak a foreign language! To access Mango Languages go to the library web site at
Mango Languages
You will need to type in your library card number and your last name before getting started.

Interested in more information from home? We subscribe to all the following resources that Swampscott residents can access from our web site with their library cards:

Critical Survey of Long Fiction – Biographical and critical analysis of the most studied novelists and their works.
HeritageQuest – Census and other records for genealogists. We also subscribe to Ancestry.com but due to licensing restrictions this can only be accessed from library computers.
Literary Reference Center – Critiques of authors and their works.
Magill’s Medical guide – Articles from the current Magill’s health encyclopedia
Novelist – A guide to fiction that includes book reviews, author read-alikes, book discussion guides, lists of award winners and much more.
Reference USA – The No. 1 source of information on businesses for researchers, students and job seekers.
Swampscott Reporter – Articles from 8/11/05 to the present.