SUBSCRIPTION DATABASES WITH REMOTE ACCESS
from your home computer using your library card
ChiltonLibrary.com -- With more than 45 years of information on auto tear-downs provided in step-by-step procedures, engine, chassis, electrical, drive train, routine maintenance, suspension work and more is made easier for mechanics of any experience level. Photos, illustrations and repair procedures help to simplify even the most arduous tasks.
Columbia Granger's Poetry Database -- contains 70, 000 works of poetry found in anthologies, and volumes of collected works and selected works for individual poets.
Consumer Health Complete -- provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center™ [NEW] -- Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center™ provides comprehensive full text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today. Including full text for more than 960 magazines and books, as well as access to more than 720 videos and more than 140 hobby reports, this database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.
Subject areas include arts & crafts; collecting; games & electronics; model building; home & leisure; needlework; outdoors & nature; and scrapbooking & papercraft. The database also features extensive information on over 140 topics.
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center provides full text from the leading hobby and craft magazines, including Bead & Button, Birder's World, Creative Knitting, FineScale Modeler, PaperWorks, Scrapbooking, Quilter's World, and many more.
Home Improvement Reference Centre [NEW] -- Home Improvement Reference Center™ is the definitive online tool for home improvement assistance, including: maintenance, remodeling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home & garden, etc.
This comprehensive resource contains 27 major reference works in full text with more than 10,000 images (none found available online anywhere else). Additionally, the database contains nearly 100 videos of popular home repair projects, a convenient A-Z browsing tool, and full-text magazines (e.g. This Old House). Remote access is available for library patrons for use from home.
NoveList -- Search for books by title, reading level, subject, or author, and browse feature articles, BookTalks, Book Discussion Guides and Author Read-alikes.
Overdrive E-audiobooks -- Download and listen to best selling and classic audio books 24/7 on your PC, laptop, PDA or MP3 player at home, in the office or anywhere in the world. Your library without walls is always open. Available only from your home computer using your library card. Not available through the library’s public internet terminals
Small Engine Repair Reference Center -- the definitive online tool for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine (boats), outdoor power equipment, PWC (personal watercraft/jet ski), snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers and other small engines.
ChiltonLibrary.com -- With more than 45 years of information on auto tear-downs provided in step-by-step procedures, engine, chassis, electrical, drive train, routine maintenance, suspension work and more is made easier for mechanics of any experience level. Photos, illustrations and repair procedures help to simplify even the most arduous tasks.
Columbia Granger's Poetry Database -- contains 70, 000 works of poetry found in anthologies, and volumes of collected works and selected works for individual poets.
Consumer Health Complete -- provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide.
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center™ [NEW] -- Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center™ provides comprehensive full text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today. Including full text for more than 960 magazines and books, as well as access to more than 720 videos and more than 140 hobby reports, this database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast.
Subject areas include arts & crafts; collecting; games & electronics; model building; home & leisure; needlework; outdoors & nature; and scrapbooking & papercraft. The database also features extensive information on over 140 topics.
Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center provides full text from the leading hobby and craft magazines, including Bead & Button, Birder's World, Creative Knitting, FineScale Modeler, PaperWorks, Scrapbooking, Quilter's World, and many more.
Home Improvement Reference Centre [NEW] -- Home Improvement Reference Center™ is the definitive online tool for home improvement assistance, including: maintenance, remodeling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home & garden, etc.
This comprehensive resource contains 27 major reference works in full text with more than 10,000 images (none found available online anywhere else). Additionally, the database contains nearly 100 videos of popular home repair projects, a convenient A-Z browsing tool, and full-text magazines (e.g. This Old House). Remote access is available for library patrons for use from home.
NoveList -- Search for books by title, reading level, subject, or author, and browse feature articles, BookTalks, Book Discussion Guides and Author Read-alikes.
Overdrive E-audiobooks -- Download and listen to best selling and classic audio books 24/7 on your PC, laptop, PDA or MP3 player at home, in the office or anywhere in the world. Your library without walls is always open. Available only from your home computer using your library card. Not available through the library’s public internet terminals
Small Engine Repair Reference Center -- the definitive online tool for small engine repair assistance, including: ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, marine (boats), outdoor power equipment, PWC (personal watercraft/jet ski), snowblowers, snowmobiles, tillers and other small engines.
OTHER DATABASES WITHOUT REMOTE ACCESS
access only through the library’s public internet terminals
Canadian Newsstand: offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers.
Encyclopedia of BC -- designed specifically for public libraries. This multidisciplinary encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and exciting reference work on BC ever published.
BC Stats -- is the central statistical agency of the Province of BC. Contains the latest figures on:Business Indicators; Consumer Price Index; Exports; Tourism Sector Monitor; Earnings & Employment TrendS; Labour Force StatisticS; Migration & Immigration Highlights: Small Business Quarterly: Quarterly Regional Statistics.
Ancestry Library edition [NEW] -- U.S. collections deliver hundreds of millions of names from sources such as federal and U.S. censuses; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records.
Canadian collections provide nearly 60 million records from the Census of Canada; and key vital records, such as the Drouin Collection (1621-1967), which includes nearly 30 million baptism, marriage, and burial records from Quebec.
U.K. collections offer censuses for England, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, and Scotland, with nearly 200 million records; Births and Baptisms (1834-1906), Marriage Licenses (1521-1869), Deaths and Burials (1834-1934), and Poor Law Records (1840-1938) in London; and more.
Other international collections continue to grow with more than 46 million records from German census, vital records, emigration indexes, ship lists, phone directories, and more; Chinese surnames in the large and growing Jiapu Collection of Chinese lineage books; Jewish family history records from Eastern Europe and Russia; and more.
Military collections deliver over 150 million records containing information often not found elsewhere; and includes records from the colonial to the Vietnam era.
Multimedia collections deliver millions of files ranging from family and gravestone photos to postcards and newsreels.
Canadian Newsstand: offers unparalleled access to the full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers.
Encyclopedia of BC -- designed specifically for public libraries. This multidisciplinary encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and exciting reference work on BC ever published.
BC Stats -- is the central statistical agency of the Province of BC. Contains the latest figures on:Business Indicators; Consumer Price Index; Exports; Tourism Sector Monitor; Earnings & Employment TrendS; Labour Force StatisticS; Migration & Immigration Highlights: Small Business Quarterly: Quarterly Regional Statistics.
Ancestry Library edition [NEW] -- U.S. collections deliver hundreds of millions of names from sources such as federal and U.S. censuses; birth, death, and marriage records including the Social Security Death Index; and U.S. border crossing and trans-ocean ship records.
Canadian collections provide nearly 60 million records from the Census of Canada; and key vital records, such as the Drouin Collection (1621-1967), which includes nearly 30 million baptism, marriage, and burial records from Quebec.
U.K. collections offer censuses for England, Wales, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, and Scotland, with nearly 200 million records; Births and Baptisms (1834-1906), Marriage Licenses (1521-1869), Deaths and Burials (1834-1934), and Poor Law Records (1840-1938) in London; and more.
Other international collections continue to grow with more than 46 million records from German census, vital records, emigration indexes, ship lists, phone directories, and more; Chinese surnames in the large and growing Jiapu Collection of Chinese lineage books; Jewish family history records from Eastern Europe and Russia; and more.
Military collections deliver over 150 million records containing information often not found elsewhere; and includes records from the colonial to the Vietnam era.
Multimedia collections deliver millions of files ranging from family and gravestone photos to postcards and newsreels.
OTHER DATABASES WITH REMOTE ACCESS
Outlook -- is the BC provincial library catalog through which we process interlibrary loans. If you see a book in this catalog that we don't have in our own Library System, request it through Interlibrary Loan
Library and Archives Canada -- Search over 22 million full records from 500 Canadian libraries. Check library holdings, and their Interlibrary Loan policies and charges
Booklist Center -- currently 339 book lists in 81 categories. Includes lists prepared by authorities in dozens of fields as well as comprehensive listings of award winning books complete from the first year of the award to the present.
Project Gutenberg -- the first producer of free electronic books, currently with over 25,000 titles.
Directory of Open Access Journals -- provides free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in a variety of subjects and languages.
PubMed Central: the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
BC Laws provides free public access to the current laws of British Columbia. This unofficial current consolidation of BC Statutes and Regulations is updated continually as new and amended laws come into force.