Get the Freegal Music app and download music to your Apple or Android device!
Available in the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Requires a Gail Borden Public Library Card.
Questions? Please contact the information desk at 847-429-4680.
Gail Borden Public Library District cardholders can log into Freegal Music and download up to five music MP3 files per week from the Sony Music catalog. They can also stream music for up to five hours per day.
The collection includes music from the Sony Music catalog, an umbrella of music labels that includes Arista, Columbia, Epic, Jive, Legacy, Provident, RCA, and Sony Music Latin imprints.
You can download music from some of today’s most popular artists, including Adele, the Glee Cast, Cage the Elephant, Britney Spears, Pitbull, Michael Jackson, Usher, Chris Brown, Pearl Jam, and many more!
Movies
DVDs and Blu-rays are available for checkout. See New at the Library for lists of titles that were were added this month and last month.
Adult DVDs | Kids DVDs | Adult Blu-rays | Kids Blu-rays
In addition, there are movies playing at the library every month. See movies are playing this month at the library by visiting the library events calendar.
Music
The library has a wide variety of rock, pop, classical, jazz, electronic, country, world, and Spanish music on CD and available for download and streaming.
This collection is organized by the ANSCR Classification System.
See New at the Library for a list of titles that were were added this month and last month.
Audiobooks
Audiobooks are available in multiple formats - CD, downloadable eAudiobooks, and Playaways.
Playaways are single-title self-contained audiobooks that are perfect for those on the go. Here's a list of our Playaway titles.
See New at the Library for a list of titles that were were added this month and last month.
Games
The library carries video games for the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 3, Playstation 4, and Playstation 5.
All of the games are requestable via one of the library's Media Dispensers - except for games for the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS systems.
The Alpha-Numeric System for Classification of Recordings (ANSCR)
is composed of the following categories into which all sound recordings are organized.
| A | Early Music |
| B | Operas |
| C | Choral Music |
| D | Vocal Music |
| EA | General Orchestral |
| EB | Ballet Music |
| EC | Concertos |
| ES | Symphonies |
| F | Chamber Music |
| GG | Guitar |
| GO | Organ |
| GP | Piano |
| GS | Stringed Instruments |
| GV | Violin |
| GW | Wind Instruments (Includes Brass) |
| GX | Percussion and Unusual Instruments |
| H | Band Music |
| HP | Patriotic Music |
| J | Electronic or Mechanical Music |
| K | Musicals and Operettas |
| L | Soundtracks |
| MA | Popular Music |
| MC | Country/Western Music |
| MG | Gospel and Contemporary Christian Music |
| MJ | Jazz |
| MN | New Age Music |
| MP | Rap Music |
| MR | Rock Music |
| O | Jewish Music |
| P | American Folk and Ethnic Music |
| Q | International Folk and Ethnic Music |
| R | Holiday Music |
| S | Varieties and Humor |
| T | Plays |
| U | Poetry |
| V | Prose |
| W | Documentary: History and Commentary |
| X | Instructional |
| Y | Sounds and Special Effects |
| ZM | (E) Preschool Music |
| ZS | Preschool Stories |
| ZI | Juvenile Instruction |
| ZM | (J) Juvenile Music |