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AtoZ World Food
Explore thousands of global recipes, hundreds of fascinating culture and ingredient articles, and essential culinary resources. A great resource for research or entertainment!
AtoZ World Travel
Explore the world from your current location! AtoZ World Travel is a comprehensive travel resource filled with useful and interesting information. This website is an excellent source for research or enjoyment!
Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports is an unbiased product review site, ranging from appliances, electronics, babies & kids products, cars and much more. Discover the greatest quality product that fits you best!
Ancestry.com
Ancestry Library Edition is free access to the same resources the pros use. Learn your genealogy to discover your family history. At Ancestry, you will find the world's largest collection of online records: census, court, military, and immigration records, and more.
Auto Repair Source
Auto Repair Source provides the most accurate, authoritative, and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of vehicles! Start servicing your vehicle better today!
Cypress Resume
Use this online resume builder to create a resume in a few simple steps! Cover letter and reference sheet builders are also available on this website.
Explora
Easy-to-browse categories to help students with their research.
Gale Primary Sources
Gale Primary Sources provides a wide range of databases and resources to suit a variety of research interests. Every article, magazine, and others resources have a citation provided in MLA 8th Edition, APA 7th Edition, Chicago 17th Edition, and Harvard.
Hobbies and Crafts
Hobbies and Crafts by EBSCO has content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts, and recreation activities. Choose from magazines, books, instructional 'how-to', and videos to explore a new craft or expand your skills.
Home Improvement
Home improvement areas: maintenance, remodeling, electrical work, plumbing, wood projects, outdoor improvements, decorating home and garden, and more.
Lynda.com
An online learning platform that helps you learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals, all for free with you library card!
Explora Educators Edition
Highlights content relevant to teachers. Includes lesson plans and other development resources.
Small Engine Repair
ATVs, commercial mowers, farm tractors, generators, motorcycles, boats, snowblowers, and other small engines.
Solaro
An online study help and exam prep for Alberta curriculum grades 3 - 12. Follow the Solaro set up instructions.
Pronunciator
A fun and free way to learn any of 80 languages with self-directed lessons, live teachers, movies, music.
Duolingo
Learn a new language with this engaging app or use the website! Daily reminders, points, practice stories, and more! Learn anytime, anywhere!
ABCya
ABCya provides over 300 fun and educational games for grades Pre-K through 6. These activities are designed by parents and educators, who understand that children learn better if they are having fun. Young learners will love working with Fuzz Bugs to recognize consonant blends, or taking a stroll through a gnome’s garden to practice measuring in centimetres and inches.
Accessibility - CELA
The Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELA) makes it possible and easy for all public libraries in Canada to provide reading materials in accessible formats to patrons with print disabilities. CELA also provides training and support to help libraries deliver their accessible services effectively.
Accessibility - NNELS
The National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS) is a repository of content owned and sustained by Canadian public libraries, working with international partners, libraries, readers, and publishers (particularly Canadian ones) to make copies of books in accessible formats available to readers in Canada who have print disabilities.
Ancestry
This resource is only available on-site at your local library. Ancestry Library Edition is free to access to the same resources the pros use. Learn your genealogy to discover your family history.
AtoZ World Food
Thousands of global recipes, hundreds of fascinating culture and ingredient articles, and essential culinary resources.
Bluebird Languages
Learn 163 languages with Bluebird, the largest audiobook library in the world. Features 12 million prerecorded lessons, personalized courses that match your personal interests and occupation, quizzes, daily lessons and more!
Book Pirates
Free bilingual picture books in 1001 language combinations. With the bilingual picture books from bilingual-picturebooks.org, parents and children can enjoy a story together. Bilingual picture books can also be helpful when working with refugee children in schools, kindergartens and refugee shelters, or for all of us when learning a foreign language.
Calgary Herald Archives
The entire archive of the Calgary Herald, the largest and oldest daily newspaper in Alberta, from 1883-2010 is available.
Canadian Newsstream
360 Canadian news sources plus archives back to the 1970s. Includes Alberta dailies and weeklies.
Cantook Station
The Read Alberta initiative is a project where Alberta libraries have partnered with Alberta publishers in order to make over 1,000 locally published eBooks available to readers across the province. This is hosted on a platform called Cantook Station.
CBC Learning English
A joint project between CBC Edmonton and the Government of Alberta. Practice grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation.
Citizenship Test
The #1 ranking Canadian Citizenship Test App is now offering Northern Lights Library System users free access to all the test prep questions. Coupon Code: JJYCJSVR
Cloud Library
Browse the digital shelves, look at the featured selections and/or filter by format.
Consumer Reports
Unbiased product reviews for appliances, electronics, babies & kids products, cars and much more. This is an EBSCO resource, so you will have to select it again from EBSCO’s landing page after you sign in.
Cypress Resume
The online resume builder, create a resume in a few easy steps. User profile recommended by Cypress Resume.
EBSCOhost
An online research platform with quality databases and search features. Find the needed information fast. This is an EBSCO resource, so you will have to select it again from EBSCO’s landing page after you sign in.
ESCTV: Edmonton Seniors Centre
BROADCASTING FOR THE 55+ COMMUNITY It's easily accessible, just click on the link and unmute the sound! No software to download and no fees to pay. You can watch from a computer, a tablet, a smartphone, or a TV. All you need is an internet connection!
Explora Canada
Easy-to-browse categories to help students with their research. This is an EBSCO resource, so you will have to select it again from EBSCO’s landing page after you sign in.
Explora Educator's Edition
Highlights content relevant to teachers. Includes lesson plans and other development resources. This is an EBSCO resource, so you will have to select it again from EBSCO’s landing page after you sign in.
Gale Primary Sources
It provides a wide range of databases and resources to suit a variety of research interests.
Global Storybooks
Global Storybooks is a free multilingual literacy resource for children, youth, and teachers worldwide.
Grant Connect
Find new funders. Target better prospects. Track your relationships.
hoopla
A streaming service of audiobooks, albums, movies, and TV shows that can be enjoyed on your PC, tablet, or phone.
hoopla Kids Mode!
Want to browse items just for the kids? No problem - hoopla has a KIDS Mode! hoopla Kids Mode, the gateway setting for accessing everything in this multi-format, children's digital media experience.
LinkedIn Learning
An online learning platform that helps you learn business, software, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals.
Niche Academy Tutorials
An online learning platform for library eResources, online programs, social media, and computer skills.
NoveList
Reader's Advisory Tool: Reading recommended lists by ages and browsed by genres, read-alikes or by mood. This is an EBSCO resource, so you will have to select it again from EBSCO’s landing page after you sign in.
NoveList K - 8
Introduce teachers and students to new books. Encourage independent reading. Contains over 60,000 fiction titles. This is an EBSCO resource, so you will have to select it again from EBSCO’s landing page after you sign in.
Novelist Plus
Find out what to read next for any age. Search new titles, authors or plots, or find read-alike. This is an EBSCO resource, so you will have to select it again from EBSCO’s landing page after you sign in.
OverDrive
Includes current, popular fiction, and non-fiction eBooks or eAudiobooks for all ages. Read, view and listen on your device.
Overdrive Kids!
Just for Kids Want to browse items just for the kids? No problem - OverDrive has a KIDS section! Browse the book carousels. No time to wait? No problem! Check out the Instantly Available collection for kids.
Oxford Owl
With a library of activities and resources for every stage of the learning journey, curated by the team at Oxford University Press, we are here with inspiration to help your little ones learn, grow and flourish at home, in the classroom and beyond.
Prairie Indigenous Collection
Stories by Indigenous authors, and writings about Indigenous culture from publishers in the Prairies.
pressreader
The world’s largest online newspaper and magazine kiosk, over 2000 publications. Get full issues just as they appear in print.
pressreader for Kids!
The world’s largest online newspaper and magazine kiosk, over 2000 publications. Get full issues just as they appear in print. These papers and magazines are a curated collection perfect for young readers!
Pronunciator
A fun and free way to learn any of 80 languages with self-directed lessons, live teachers, movies, music.
Read Alberta eBooks & eMagazines
Browse the catalog for ebooks or audiobooks. Check out the featured Prairie Indigenous Ebooks Collection.
Solaro
An online study help and exam prep for Alberta curriculum grades 3 - 12. Follow the Solaro set up instructions.
Storyline Online
Storyline Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Kristen Bell, Rita Moreno, Viola Davis, Jaime Camil, Kevin Costner, Lily Tomlin, Sarah Silverman, Betty White, Wanda Sykes and dozens more.
Storynory
Storynory has been giving free audio stories to the world since November 2005. We are a podcast and a website with audio streaming. We aim for our audio stories to showcase imagination, good writing, and great narrations.
Transparent Language
These powerful apps synchronize your learning activity with your Transparent Language Online account, meaning you can learn on your computer, phone, or tablet – the choice is yours! Best of all, with 100+ languages for English speakers and English for speakers of 25+ different languages, there is something for every learner.