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the digital library is free of charge, for everyone who is a Muntpunt member, through your personal Mijn Bibliotheek profile.
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become a member for free by visiting Muntpunt. We happily guide you through the registration.
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after this, create a Mijn Bibliotheek profile via mijn.bibliotheek.be.
Do you need help with your smartphone, tablet, or computer? Our digital helpers are here to assist you in our Digipunt.
Read online
e-books
Get carried away by books without carrying them around. Read them on your own device at any time!
- in Dutch, English, and more (offer is constantly expanding)
- read on your own device
- free, for all Muntpunt members with a Mijn Bibliotheek profile
- max. 3 books at once for max. 6 weeks
- How?
- download the ‘Cantook’-app
- during the installation, choose ‘Een bibliotheek toevoegen > België > De openbare bibliotheken van Vlaanderen en Brussel’
- frequently asked questions & manuals
newspapers and magazines
Read all newspaper articles at home from two days after publication via the newspaper archive. In Muntpunt, you can read all articles immediately and have access to more than 7000 international newspapers and magazines.
national
Kiosk
- read on your own device or a library device
- free, for everyone in the library
- How?
- log on to the wifi network of Muntpunt: Muntpunt_guest (only necessary on own device)
- surf to local.belga.press
Archive
- from 2 days after issue
- read on your own device or a library device, wherever you want
- free, for everyone with a Mijn Bibliotheek profile
- How?
- surf to the Newspaper Archive
international
- from today and up to several back issues
- read on your own device, wherever you want
- How?
- at home:
- log on to Mijn Bibliotheek
- choose 'PressReader'
- in Muntpunt:
- log on to the wifi network of Muntpunt: Muntpunt_guest (only necessary on own device)
- surf to pressreader.com
- at home:
Digital Brussels
Read quality online information sources about Brussels for free (mostly in Dutch).
Watch online
Cinébib
Watch more than 1.500 films and documentaries through film platforms Avila and Sooner.
- watch on your own device
- free, for all Muntpunt members with a Mijn Bibliotheek profile
How?
- Sooner & Avila: through Mijn Bibliotheek
- log on to Mijn Bibliotheek
- choose Cinébib
- Sooner & Avila: through the catalogue
- pick a film and choose ‘film bekijken’
- Avila: choose ‘kijk’ and log on with your Mijn Bibliotheek profile. Choose the play symbol.
- Sooner: choose ‘login to Mijn Bibliotheek’ en log on with your Mijn Bibliotheek profile. Choose ‘kijk’.
- pick a film and choose ‘film bekijken’
- Sooner: website
- surf to stream.sooner.be/nl/login
- choose the logo of De Bib under the login frames
- log on with your Mijn Bibliotheek profile
- Sooner: app
- download the Sooner-app on your own device
- log on with your Mijn Bibliotheek profile
- Avila: website or webapp
- surf to bib.avilafilm.be
- log on with your Mijn Bibliotheek profile
Listen online
Listen to fiction and non-fiction books through Cantook (see above under ‘e-books’).
Daisy Audio Books
The Daisy Audio Books of Luisterpunt are especially developed for persons with reading disabilities.
- listen to audio books on your own device
- free, for everyone with a reading disability, registered as Daisy Online Reader
- read thousands of audio books and digital braille books in several languages through the ABC catalogue
Brussels libraries
Folder
Read the folder about the digital library online (English p. 8-9):