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Access Video on Demand
(Click for more detail)Access Video on Demand is a streaming video platform with a focus on educational films. The collection includes 41,213 videos, 331,668 video segments and 1,094 subject categories.
Ancestry Library
(Click for more detail)A collection of thousands of individual genealogy databases from many different institutions. It includes American, Canadian and U.K. sources as well as some for Australia, New Zealand and Europe.
AtoZ World Food
(Click for more detail)Learn more about food in history and culture while discovering thousands of traditional recipes from 174 countries.
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Audiobook Cloud
(Click for more detail)A large assortment of streaming audiobooks that are always available. Includes fiction and nonfiction material for both adults and children.
Ottawa Citizen
(Click for more detail)A searchable archive of 30 days which is part of the database Library PressDisplay. Articles can be translated into German, Greek, Spanish or French. The viewer can also listen to individual articles in any of these languages.
Ottawa Citizen - ProQuest Historical Newspapers (1845 - 2010)
(Click for more detail)This digitized full-images archives of the Ottawa Citizen provides genealogists, researchers and general public with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Overdrive eBooks and Audiobooks
(Click for more detail)eBooks and downloadable audiobooks. Compatible with most devices. Includes Libby, the newer library reading app by OverDrive.
Overdrive Magazines (Formerly RBDigital Unlimited Magazines -Zinio)
(Click for more detail)A package of over 3,000 popular titles (including Canadian Living, National Geographic, The New Yorker, and many more) with varieties of languages and up to three years of back issues are now available for unlimited simultaneous access with no circulation caps.
Oxford English Dictionary
(Click for more detail)600,000 words … 3.5 million quotations … over 1000 years of English