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A world-class e-content database offering country-by-country culture information on 175 nations and territories. Learn to understand the cultures of other countries and gain valuable cross-cultural knowledge with one easy-to-use resource.
Discover a world of knowledge at your fingertips! Whether you’re a curious kid or a dedicated researcher, our up-to-date, easy-to-use databases make it simple to explore everything from world cultures and languages to global trade and logistics. Fast, engaging, and full of answers—your next discovery starts here.
Access Video On Demand (AVOD) delivers over 42,000 Oscar®, Emmy®, and Peabody Award-winning documentaries, how-to programs, top-quality performances spanning the arts, biographies of history-makers past and present, a wide variety of TV shows, movies, and so much more! Enjoy unlimited streaming of exceptional content from the world’s top producers, including HBO®, BBC, A&E, National Geographic, and PBS, among others. Download the app and stream from your device!
Ancestry Library Edition is the premier genealogy database in the world, with Canadian, American, and European information. Please note that this resource is only accessible within our Library Branches.
Want to be in the Skilled Trades? We can help! Tell us why you are here and we will help you get started. BlueCareer by EBSCOlearning is an easy-to-use resource center for those interested in learning more about the skilled trades and seeking to explore a career transition. It provides in-depth information on more than 100 skilled trades, connects individuals with hundreds of trade schools across the United States and Canada, and provides training resources for those seeking to build their trade knowledge and experience. BlueCareer also supports local employers looking for talent or seeking insights into the labor market.
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Answer the age-old question, “What do I read next?” Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.
Britannica Library & Image Quest
The Britannica Library is an award-winning resource for children, young adults, and adults. It is easy to use and easy to find trusted information. You will also have access to Image Quest, where you will find millions of rights-cleared images on one trusted site.
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Access millions of rights-cleared images from one trusted site! Britannica Image Quest is part of Encyclopaedia Britannica, the award-winning resource for children, young adults, and adults.
A guide containing more than 3200 direct and indirect financial subsidies grants and loans offered by government departments and agencies, foundations, associations and organizations. Also, find information on several different types of funding available to non-profit organizations, corporations, institutions, and individuals.
Access the largest catalogue of French-language eBooks and eAudiobooks with Cantook Libraries!
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Interactive Canadian career resource designed to help users explore different career options, as well as plan future education and training.
Search the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. Chilton Library represents the most authoritative automotive repair information available to car owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional coverage of specialty models.
CIRC - Canada's Information Resource Centre
A collection of Canadian reference resources: Associations Canada, Canadian Almanac & Directory, Canadian Environmental Directory, Directory of Libraries in Canada, Financial Services in Canada, Governments Canada.
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Discover a world of eBooks and eAudiobook with CloudLibrary, your Library’s easy-to-use app that puts great titles right at your fingertips. Enjoy instant access to your favourites, explore new stories, and dive in anytime, anywhere!
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Creativebug is the number one inspirational resource for DIY, crafters and makers with thousands of award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists!
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Digital Human Library’s Virtual Tours & Virtual Reality
Browse the world’s largest curated collection of multimedia virtual tours and virtual reality on the web! Access over 1800 virtual tours and virtual reality experiences including 360° panoramas, live cameras, pre-recorded tours, videos, and virtual reality experiences. Access tours on any device in any browser, anytime. No hardware required.
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Browse the largest selection of quality, multidisciplinary titles from world-renowned publishers and explore focused, pre-packaged eBook collections at your fingertips.
Search articles, books, journals & more! EBSCOhost eBook Collection provides millions of multidisciplinary, scholarly, and academic titles.
Access online practice tests and tutorials. Prepare for professional certification, licensing, and aptitude tests. Improve workplace skills. Learn how to create professional resumes and master the art of interviewing. Prepare for college and graduate school admissions tests. Learn basic skills in reading, writing, and math.
Explore a world of books, games, and activities! Era Books focuses on children's literature, literacy for pre-k and junior primary. It covers a variety of topics and reading levels for all ages, including picture books, traditional tales, guided reading, phonics and decodables, mathematics literacy, guided science and inquiry, hidden treasures, and books in world languages!
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Flipster is a next-generation digital magazine distribution service where users can access magazines from a variety of publishers via a web browser or a custom app, and download magazines to read offline, anytime, anywhere. Access leading digital magazines on your mobile device with Flipster, the digital magazine newsstand from EBSCO - courtesy of your local library!
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Freading (short for Free Reading) is an eBook service with over 55,000 eBooks and new titles added regularly, Freading offers a wide selection of fiction, non-fiction, and everything in between.
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Gale Courses offers a wide range of free, highly interactive courses that you can take entirely online. As a library card holder in good standing, you are entitled to enroll in unlimited courses per calendar year at no cost. Courses run for six weeks and new sessions begin every month.
Introduce elementary students to database searching with resources featuring age-appropriate, curriculum-related content. Gale In Context: Elementary gives children a safe place to find answers to their questions, practice research skills, and explore interests inside and outside the classroom. It also gives teachers access to digital resources that can supplement and enhance instruction.
Search this digital master index to find coverage of authors and works in products published by Gale.
Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields.
Hoopla is a library media streaming platform launched for eAudiobooks, eComics, eBooks, eMovies, eMusic, and eTelevision.
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Just For Kids offers a kid-safe, advertisement-free, media platform where young patrons can learn, explore and enjoy. Just for Kids has the educational videos that children want to watch—from Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Franklin, Arthur, to The Berenstain Bears, and more! These videos are sure to entertain, educate and inspire young patrons. Games, songs and interactives will keep these early learners interested and engaged as they discover a learning environment that is fun, safe and entertaining.
A collection of over 30,000 documentaries, classics and independent films you can stream anytime, anywhere on your preferred devices.
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Learn digital literacy skills, evaluate online content, and think critically about all the digital media you are bombarded with. Kermode Education helps adult learners and families be smarter, kinder, and safer online by combing step-by-step guides, innovative software, and inquiry-based learning to help better understand the digital world in which we live.
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LOTE4Kids, allows children to enjoy the magic of books in World Languages from the comfort of home. LOTE stands for Languages Other Than English and each book is provided with an English translation to help develop multilingual reading and listening skills. Kids can also watch a selection of English-only books with Australian, US, and UK accents.
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Maclean’s Magazine Archive (1905-2015) offers access to issues from 1905-2015 of the leading Canadian news and general interest magazine. Topics include investigative reporting, opinion and analysis on politics, economy and business, science and technology, society, arts and culture, education and work. Maclean’s Magazine Archive is valuable to researchers of 20th-Century current events, gender issues, politics and culture, the history of business, advertising, and more.
Mango Languages makes learning a new language fast and easy! Choose from a wide variety of languages and learn everything from basic words and phrases to practical conversation for everyday situations. Learn a new language at your own pace using fun and interactive lessons.
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We are Canada’s public producer and distributor, and this is our online Screening Room. We offer free streaming of documentary and animated films as well as interactive stories, all of which explore the world we live in from a Canadian point of view.
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Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Best for children aged 6–14.
National Geographic: Virtual Library
Browse this cross-searchable platform for research insight from journalism's most trusted name in exploration and discovery.
Newspaper Source Plus + Newswires
Newspaper Source Plus and Newswires by EBSCO provides a full-text digital collection of the world's major news content. It includes millions of articles from newspapers, newswires and news magazines. In addition, it offers television and radio transcripts and ongoing daily updates from popular news sources.
This database lets you search among hundreds of thousands of popular fiction and readable non-fiction titles, and also retrieve author read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides, and more.
NoveList K-8 Plus is a powerful online reading guide designed to help kids in Kindergarten through Grade 8 discover books they’ll truly love, whether they’re reading for fun or working on a school project. Created by reading experts and packed with book recommendations, series information, and trusted reviews, it makes finding the perfect next read easy and exciting for young readers and the adults who support them.
OverDrive & Libby by OverDrive
Browse and borrow digital content from the entire Ontario Library Service digital collection. eBooks, eAudiobooks, and eMagazines can be downloaded from the OverDrive website to read on your desktop or eReader, or on the go through the Libby app by OverDrive.
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PebbleGo is a grades K–5+ digital learning platform that gives educators the resources to help every student grow their literacy skills while building essential science and social studies knowledge. It includes 4 modules spanning Animals, Health, Science, and Social Studies.
Salem provides online access to all of its award-winning content, including Literature, History, Science, Health, and Careers & Business.
Got questions? Get answers! From dating to dyslexia to dealing with parents, Teen Health & Wellness is your source for safe, private, and unbiased information.
Presented at a reading level for children ages 10 to 14 years, The World Almanac for Kids is filled with thousands of fun, fascinating facts and essential homework help on a wide range of subjects. This full-color almanac has been completely updated with new content and jam-packed with quizzes, experiments, puzzles, games, activities, jokes, maps, websites, and much more to get young readers excited about learning.
The World Almanac for Kids Elementary
Presented at a reading level for children ages 6 to 9 years, The World Almanac Kids Elementary is filled with thousands of fun, fascinating facts and essential homework help on a wide range of subjects. This full-color almanac has been completely updated with new content and jam-packed with quizzes, experiments, puzzles, games, activities, jokes, maps, websites, and much more to get young readers excited about learning.
Language learning made personal. Transparent Language Online empowers you to learn anywhere, anytime, for any language goal — in 100+ languages. Learn what you want, when you want. No rigid courses here! Focus on what you care about most, whether you're just starting out with the alphabet and travel basics or you're advancing into conversational skills.
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TumbleBook Library teaches kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love! TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. Once Choose between three language options: English, Español, and Français.
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Explore articles, multimedia, games, science projects, interactive tools, activities, reference resources, biographies, newspapers, research guides, computer tutorials, government resources, e-books, and much more! Modules include:
- Early Learning (Grades PreK+)
- Kids (Grades K+)
- Discover (Grades 5+)
- Student (Grades 5+)
- Advanced (Grades 9+)
- Timelines (Grades 5+)
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