Brainfuse HelpNow offers online tutoring and learning resources to students from kindergarten up to grade 12. There are also resources available to adult learners such as SkillSurfer, which includes introductory post-secondary math and science lessons.
Through a single search, you can discover and access magazines, full-text articles, and eBooks from multiple research databases.
Fiction, non-fiction and reference eBooks and journals available for online viewing and downloading. Includes Cliffs Notes.
Current issues of popular magazines including Forbes, Scientific American, Food & Wine, TIME, People and more.
A wealth of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for research on virtually every subject. Gale eBooks has ReadSpeaker technology (text-to-speech) allowing text to be read aloud to users and downloaded in MP3 format.
hoopla is a digital media service offering movies, music, comics, eBooks, eAudiobooks and TV shows to stream in your web browser or enjoy offline on your mobile device. The content is always available without waitlists. Users are provided with 10 borrow credits monthly and reset at the start of every calendar month. Unused credits do not carry forward to the next month. Each BingePass requires 1 borrow credit.
Kanopy is a video streaming service that provides instant access to 30,000+ critically acclaimed movies, documentaries and kids favorites. Users are provided with 30 tickets to watch videos from Kanopy. Tickets are replenished at the start of every calendar month and do not get carried over to the next month.
Kanopy Kids is a diverse collection of educational and entertaining content that range across movies, TV series, animated storybooks, live action, and animated favorites.
For primary grade to adult learners, each Learning Center offers specialized practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses for school, including professional examinations, curriculum resources by grade, the Canadian Citizenship exam, and guided help through popular software applications.
An online language-learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages. The online learning system is so easy to use you'll see incredible results after just one lesson. Covers 14 ESL Languages and 22 Foreign Languages.
Search through tens of thousands of eBooks, books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays using title, author and general keyword searching, as well as basic and advanced browsing capabilities.
Provides unlimited access to over 5000 newspaper and magazine titles, from more than 100 countries, in over 60 languages. Publications are offered in full-colour, full-page format, just like reading the print version. The Globe & Mail is only available for download onsite at the library.
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Collection of full length streaming audiobooks that you can listen to from any computer with an internet connection.
Animated, talking versions of your favourite picture books. In addition to books, this interactive site includes games, puzzles and more!
Udemy is a learning platform that offers a wide range of courses in the fields of business and technology, plus courses on other topics such as crafts, hobbies and personal finance. Major categories of courses include Cloud Computing, Data Science, Development, IT Operations, Leadership & Management, Marketing, Personal Development, and Project Management and Operations. Courses on Udemy are video-based and provide a certificate of completion upon successful completion of each course.
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Over 2500 highly illustrated, engaging titles that support a span of curriculum areas and reading levels.
