Digital Collections

Access eBooks, images, audiobooks, sound recordings, videos and more...

Welcome to Highland Libraries eBook download service. Using your Library Card and pin, a Highlife Highland user can login into a secure eBook service and select up to 5 eBooks to download at any one time.

You can access the service via http://highlife.libraryebooks.co.uk and log-in using your Library Card and PIN number.

Am Baile Digital Image Gallery
Free access to a unique collection of digitised images related to Highland history and culture on our Am Baile database.

Photographs
• Here you will find pictures of towns, villages and landscapes as well as different aspects of Highland life and culture.

Illustrations
• We also hold a collection of digitised collection of paintings, drawings and engravings of Highland landscapes, famous personalities, as well as artefacts and objects and other works of art.

Am Baile Audio-visual collections
Immerse yourself in the past with Am Baile's digitised collection of film dating back to the 1930s reflecting Highland life and its people. Listen to the vibrant literary culture of the Highlands with Am Baile's a rich archive of audio recordings of local authors.

Film Archive
• Discover Am Baile’s collection of video and audio capturing the unique culture and history of the Highlands on film. Here you will find a selection of short animated films and historic film clips.

Audio Recordings
• Here you will find a wide range of traditional songs, poems and nursery rhymes, oral history interviews and passages from novels inspired by the Highlands and Islands.

Am Baile Digital e-Book Library
Browse Am Baile’s own collection of digitised books available for you to read online. Am Baile have also linked to external collections of Highland significance on ‘Project Gutenberg’, ‘Google Books’ and ‘Internet Archive’ digitisation projects. Use the links to access books and pamphlets about the Highlands, which can be read online, and in many cases downloaded free.

Audiobook Download Service
You can download audio books free and listen to hundreds of fiction and Non-fiction titles from W. F. Howes Audio direct from the OneClick Digital portal.