Some neat things:
- In World Book, Explore Canada for kids with projects on provinces.
- Need info about life and events in the 1920's? Want contemporary coverage of historic events? Choose the Encyclopedia tab in World Book, then choose Back In Time articles. These articles from the World Book Yearbooks start with the 1922 yearbook.
- Learning Express - diagnostic tests, teaching and practice from grade 4 through Advanced Placement, TOEFL and GRE exams. Tip: for the login ID (free), tell patrons to use their library card number if they are going to use the product from home. Advanced Placement exams - science - In Access Science.
- Study skills success for the IELTS exam is coming soon.
- Tense Buster - language learning. The user can change the interface language (read the instructions in French, say) although the product is for learning English.
- MasterFile has machine translation for articles. Not high quality translation but may be useful for a non-English speaker.
- Health and Wellness Library - Healthology - has a video library.
- Hachette has declensions for verbs.
- Auto repair - a new source coming in May. Right now, the best resource is a database only available at TRL.
- Case law - LawSource at TRL and NYCL-BU. All case law, analysis and expert insight. Evidently people trying to defend themselves or cut their legal bills use this!
- Gale and Ebsco products allow you to save complex searches - both create persistent links.
- Tumble Book Library - have Bob Munsch read aloud to you! On Kids' Space.
Coming soon: Serials Solution - find which database indexes a specific magazine title. That will be useful for people tracking down old articles from New Yorker or the Globe and Mail, etc.
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Kelly Lang sent this to LS staff:
The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples is now available online. You can access it at http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca/ecp/.
This resource includes current and historical information about various groups of people in Canada, and the electronic version provides the same information as the print version which we have in our reference collection. Each entry contains information about a group's origins and history, culture, religion, community and economic life, details about the group's migration to Canada and their settlement here, as well as suggestions for further reading. There is also detailed information about First Nations groups listed under 'Aboriginals' which is divided into twelve entries based on major linguistic groupings.
While the keyword search function is somewhat limited, you can access the information alphabetically by limiting by first letter of the topic, which makes it somewhat quicker and easier to use than the print version.
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