Digital Library Services

What to Watch on Hoopla This Month

November 8, 2021 | Wendy B. | Comments (1)

Your library card gives you access to several streaming video options, from BBC classic movies to kids’ cartoons to meditation videos. Today, we’re looking at some of the feature films available on Hoopla. What is Hoopla? Hoopla is a platform that we subscribe to for digital movies, music and comics.  You can access up to […]

Two New Business Resources

November 1, 2021 | Wendy B. | Comments (0)

If you're a professional in the fields of marketing, accounting, HR , finance, business strategy or management, you're in luck. Your library card now gives you access to two new online resources for business research: Business Source Complete, and home access to CARDonline.  Business Source Complete Stay on top of the latest business research. Business […]

Have an older Apple device? Having trouble with OverDrive? Here’s what to do

October 6, 2021 | Wendy B. | Comments (0)

If you have an older Apple device such as an iPad, iPhone or Macbook (running the operating system iOS 9 or earlier), you might be getting error messages when you try to use the OverDrive website, the OverDrive app or the Libby app: Here’s why: After September 30, 2021, the web certificate provider Let’s Encrypt […]

New! Access The Wall Street Journal online with your library card

September 24, 2021 | Wendy B. | Comments (8)

Looking for in-depth, up-to-date business and finance news? You’re in luck! The digital edition of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is now available, in English, Chinese and Japanese, with your library card or Digital Access Card. How to get it There are two ways you can access the Wall Street Journal: on a library computer […]

Flipster: Canadian eMagazines

August 9, 2021 | Wendy B. | Comments (4)

  You might already be aware that you can read a huge variety of international digital magazines on both OverDrive and PressReader with your library card. But did you know that we have another platform with a collection of specifically Canadian magazines?  It's called Flipster, and you might be surprised by the range of local […]

Your Instant Digital Card is expiring. What now?

July 13, 2021 | Wendy B. | Comments (0)

When libraries closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic last year, our ebook provider, OverDrive, offered a temporary Instant Digital Card. We agreed to make the IDC available so that people in Toronto could still borrow ebooks and audiobooks even if they didn’t have a library card. Now, those temporary cards are expiring. They’ll stop working […]

OLD ACCOUNT WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE

May 18, 2021 | TPL Staff | Comments (0)

EFFECTIVE MAY 23, 2021 TPL introduced the latest version of the Account in 2017 and has supported two versions since that time. The Old Account portion of our Account service is based on outdated technology that can no longer be integrated with other more modern portions of the website. Our current, modern Account service does […]

Téléchargez des livres et livres audio en français

May 14, 2021 | Wendy B. | Comments (2)

Si vous êtes passionné de la littérature en français, vous serez ravi de découvrir Cantook Station. Cette collection numérique a au-delà de 5000 livres et livres audio accessibles en ligne avec votre carte de bibliothèque. Les adultes et adolescents y trouveront des romans et bandes dessinées en tous genres, ainsi qu’une sélection de non-fiction. Pour […]

Library Board Meeting – May 25, 2021

May 5, 2021 | TPL Staff | Comments (0)

Toronto Public Library Board – Meeting No. 5Tuesday, May 25, 2021, 6:00 p.m. to 7:20 p.m. Dial-in information Members of the public may access the meeting via Webex at the following link:https://tpl.webex.com/tpl/onstage/g.php?MTID=e8c84a84341209593b08f2330de65e106passcode: Welcome Once logged in, click on the audio button to either listen to the call over your computer or have the system dial […]

Lynda.com is becoming LinkedIn Learning, and It’s All Good

April 22, 2021 | Wendy B. | Comments (31)

  Have you learned to code, use Excel or do graphic design lately? Then you may know that your library card gives you free access to Lynda.com. Lynda.com is an online learning platform with over 7,000 instructional videos in subjects such as coding, software, marketing, graphic design and management.  In 2015, LinkedIn, the career-focused social […]