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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.
Britannica Library
(Click for more detail)Offers access to Encyclopedia articles, images, audio files and videos, biographies, a country comparison tool, and a world atlas. Includes Britannica Library Children, Britannica Library Young Adult and Britannica Library reference center.
Britannica Library for Kids
(Click for more detail)Access thousands of articles that cover subjects for school and fun, from nations of the world to animals and sports.
Canada's Information Resource Centre
(Click for more detail)A virtual who's who and what's where in Canada. Canada’s Information Resource Centre now provides online access to four titles that we currently have in our collection:
Canadian Major Dailies_ProQuest (Formerly Canadian Newsstand)
(Click for more detail)This full-text database includes the complete available electronic backfiles for major national and regional newspapers from 1985 to current, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials, and features. Content is updated daily. Among the titles are The Globe and Mail, Nat
Canadian Reference Centre
(Click for more detail)Offers access to full-text content from several major publications including Consumer Reports, Canadian Geographic, Maclean's, Time and many more. It also includes full text biographies and a collection of photos, maps and flags.
Cantook: French-language eBooks and Audiobooks
(Click for more detail)Popular and classic French-language eBooks and Canadian audiobooks. Compatible with most devices. The app Cantook requires iOS 14 or higher.
Consumer Reports
(Click for more detail)ConsumerReports.org provides unbiased ratings and reviews, recommendations and buying advice from expert Consumer Reports’ testers for thousands of products and services such as cars, electronics, appliances, and more.
Creativebug
(Click for more detail)Learn how to paint, knit, sew, and much more. Creativebug offers thousands of award-winning arts & crafts free video classes and workshops. They are all taught by recognized design experts and artists.