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Virtual Library - online resources available 24/7
| Local Interest Databases |
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Cobourg and District Images: An amazing resource of the Cobourg Library's digital collection Archival Photos, and a growing portion of our Archival Documents! Cobourg Newspaper Index: Updated weekly by Library staff, this is an index to the Northumberland News and Snapd Northumberland West. Indexing for editions of the Cobourg Daily Star/Northumberland Today.com are available (ceased publication November 2017). |
| E-Books and Audiobooks - to download or view/listen to online |
| OverDrive Borrow eBooks, audiobooks, and more - anywhere, anytime. All you need is a library card and your PIN#.
Tumble Book Library is a collection of animated, talking picture books. You can watch your favourite picture book being read aloud to you! You can watch Tumble-TV, or play games or puzzles. Check out the Language Learning section for books in French, Spanish, Chinese & Russian. There are books available for the i-Pad too! |
| Find your next great read - Author read-a-likes - What's the next title in that series? |
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NoveList Plus, a readers' advisory service, which provides access to 155,000 fiction titles, with features such as: Author read-alikes, Book discussion guides, Reading lists and more. Cilck the link to check the Library's catalogue. Enter your card number without spaces. Novelist K-8 Plus, Booklists, recommended reads, book discussion guides, author biographies and award winners for ages 0-18. Click on the link to check the Library catalogue to see if it is available or place a hold! |
| Hobbies, Crafts and Health Information |
| Consumer Health Complete: Heatlh resources on a variety of health and wellness topics, including complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. New! Content for Teens and Their Parents - dozens of articles on a variety of teen health topics from smoking and sexting to dealing with anger and coping with divorce.
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center: provides detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas for virtually every hobby enthusiast. Whether you enjoy baking, knitting, model building, or playing the piano, you'll find full-text articles from leading hobby and craft magazines along with hundreds of how-to videos and thousands of recipes. Merck Manuals: Explains medical disorders, their symptoms, how they're diagnosed, and how they can be prevented or treated. There are 3 versions - Professional Version, Consumer Version and the new Veterinary Manual. They are offered as a free public service to health care professionals and the general public. |
| Research and Self-Help |
| Ancestry Library: A genealogy or family history research tool with records from Canada, the US, UK, and some European countries. Records include census and voter lists, birth, marriage and death, military, immigration and emigration (In-Library access only).
Canadian Reference Centre: This database includes leading Canadian and international periodicals in full text, full-text reference books, biographies, and an image collection containing more than one million photos, maps and flags. Explora: Search Canadian Reference Centre, Primary Search, MasterFILE, GreenFILE and Canadian Literary Centre all at once. Trustworthy, intuitive and simple research tool Frontier Life: a digital collection of primary sources including material from the Hudson Bay Archives and the Glenbow Archives. It is designed to enrich teaching and research, examining settlement, existence and interactions at the edge of the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. |
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