The Business, Science & Technology Department of North York Central Library compiles a monthly calendar of free science and applied science events in Toronto. Applied science includes health, gardening, pets and food- all subjects found in the department's collection. Here is the May calendar (PDF). May's highlights include: May 5: The Owl Foundation: A fly-by-night Organization? […]
Scott's Directories is a directory of Canadian businesses. It can be useful for marketing campaigns. Example 1: a business wants to direct a campaign at businesses with over 50 employees within a certain area of Toronto. Example 2: a business want to market its products and services to other businesses celebrating an anniversary. Example 1. […]
Naxos Music Library Jazz is a library eresource with a lot of jazz (jazz legends and contemporary jazz), pop and rock, nostalgia, world and relaxation music: over 185,000 tracks of it. You can listen to these tracks in different ways. You can listen to a whole album. You can listen to a part of one. […]
FP Advisor is one of the best all around resources for statistical as well as historical information relating to Canadian publicly-traded companies. It allows the user access to a wide variety of data to assist in choosing industry sectors as well as individual Canadian companies to invest in. Brief recommendations on individual as well as industry […]
Use the library e-resource Chilton Library, which is accessible anywhere (1) your car calls out to be pushed onto its side and repaired, (2) you have your tools with you and (3) you have something, besides what you're wearing, to wipe your hands on. Photograph: Julia Kertesz, "Bucarest, car repair on the street." Instructions: Use the […]
It’s almost the holidays and that means shopping. Or maybe your fridge just stopped working or you can’t go any longer without a car now that you have kids. We can help. Consumer Reports online and its paren’t magazine Consumer Reports are two of the most important and frequently-used publications of consumer information available to Toronto […]
Use the library e-resource Canadian Business & Current Affairs to find information in Canadian sources about business trends. Rick Eglinton. Fast-food favorite: Hot dogs sold by Chris Blue's vendors are a hit with Torontonians and tourists alike. 1986. Toronto Public Library. E.g. for information about mobile food trucks, enter "mobile food trucks" (in quotation marks) in the […]
Scott’s Directories is good for getting contact information (and some business information, such as number of employees, sales, year established) on Canadian companies. It’s especially useful for job searchers looking for work in specific fields. Such a customer came to the reference desk of the Business, Science and Technology Department of North York Central Library […]
Scott's Directories has profiles of 190,000+ Canadian companies. Say you'd like to walk from home to work in one of them. You live in Toronto, in the M4K postal code area; and you want to work in real estate. Step 1. Reduce the list of 190,000+ companies to real estate companies: click on “Product/Service” on […]
The Guide for Foreign-Trained Physicians in Ontario (PDF) is a guide to print and electronic resources for foreign-trained physicians who wish to be licensed to practice, and to practice, in Ontario. It includes study guides, textbooks and ESL books and audiobooks owned by the North York Central Library, instructions on using the library catalogue to find additional […]