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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!
Answer the age-old question, “What do I read next?” Search and match reading interests to books, authors, genres, or topics.
Access the largest catalogue of French-language eBooks and eAudiobooks with Cantook Libraries!
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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!
Enjoy access to thousands of age-appropriate digital comics, graphic novels, and manga through Comics Plus. We have popular titles for readers of all interests, like Avatar: The Last Airbender & The Legend of Korra, Big Nate, Bone, Disney Princesses, Geronimo Stilton, Stranger Things, Locke & Key, American Gods and timely, award-winning nonfiction like March and They Called Us Enemy. Every title is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for offline reading, with unlimited, simultaneous checkout to maximize circulation through book clubs, reading programs, makerspace activities, and other engaging initiatives.
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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 & 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.
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!
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.
Freegal Music+ is your go-to, no-ads, FREE music downloading and streaming service! New AI Powered search recommendations provide personalized music selections. Download the app or use your computer to start listening today. Access over 18 million songs, including today's top music and yesterday's hits. Build your own playlists, listen to curated playlists, or simply enjoy an album.
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Hoopla is a library media streaming platform launched for eAudiobooks, eComics, eBooks, eMovies, eMusic, and eTelevision.
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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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Norfolk County Public Library
46 Colborne St. S.
Simcoe, Ontario N3Y 4H3
Phone: 519-426-3506
Fax: 519-426-0657
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