Summer is a great time to relax and spend time reading, listening to music or watching movies. The library offers a wide variety of services for you to enjoy. OverDrive is our largest eBook collection with over 40,000 available titles including fiction and non-fiction. Penguin Canada titles have been recently added. […]
Staff gathered at the June 26th IST event to hear what TPL’s Alan Harnum had to say about “Computational Thinking” — how we effectively use computers and other technology to assist us in our work. While we may sometimes feel the ability to use technology is most critical, Alan reminded us that it’s just […]
HootSuite is a great networking tool since it enables the amalgamation of various social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, MySpace, Foursquare, WordPress, Mixi and TrendSpottr. HootSuite's creator and CEO, Ryan Holmes used crowdsourcing to choose the new name of his company in 2009. In 2012, OMERS recognized this Vancouver company's value and invested $20 million into this dashboard-based media management […]
The Pew Research Internet Project includes the kind of information that we like to cite in library reports and documents, notwithstanding its focus on the United States. According to the website, "The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through surveys […]
There are a lot of resources on businesses at the library. In addition to the business programs, business inc., and business network, there are the business databases. The most popular ones include: Business Insights: Global (Formerly Business and Company Resource Centre) This database is international in scope. You can research, analyze, interpret & better understand […]
It is the year 1989. Bart Simpson made his television debut, Danielle Radcliffe was born and Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed an "Information management" system that would allow people to access pages hosted on computers accross the globe. On March 12, 2014 World Wide Web turns 25 years old. Amazing… 25 web superstars 25 years […]
There's an interesting article in the 10th anniversary issue of Spacing: "Going green: 10 important policies that are making Toronto a more sustainable city" by Dale Duncan and Todd Irvine (winter 2013/2014, pp. 34-36). The policies are policies (and initiatives) "that have made Toronto greener over the past ten years" (p. 34). One of them […]
The library has so many useful online databases to help the job seeker such as: Scott’s Business Directories Online provides information about Canadian agencies and companies in manufacturing, government, medical and educational sectors. Career Cruising an interactive career guidance resource with in-depth profiles of careers, colleges and universities, available also in French. Financial Post […]
I’m sometimes at a lost to come up with a random phrase quickly – especially when different sentences to use to test typing skills, or demonstrate the text formatting features of Microsoft applications are needed. The often used ‘the quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog’ can be boring. You would want something interesting […]
hoopla is a product geared specifically to libraries. It allows patrons to temporarily download or stream TV, movies and music for free to watch on their smartphone, tablet or computer. hoopla has over 5,000 movies & TV shows for adults, kids and families as well as movies in all the favourite genres: Action & Adventure, Cartoons, Biographies, […]