Download Libby here. Search, place holds, borrow, read all on one app.
Sign in by selecting your library and then entering your library card #. (Don’t enter the last digit on your library card, if it begins with 24444)
How does Libby work? Click here
Click here for the Libby FAQ about devices, compatibility & syncing. Note: Kindle and Kobo do not support Libby. Kobo’s with Overdrive already installed can be used for eBooks.
Access the Ontario Library Service Download Centre, on your desktop computer.
Sign in by selecting your library and then entering your library card #. (Don’t enter the last digit on your library card, if it begins with 24444)
Streaming films & shows – new additions monthly
Borrow 5 FREE items/month on Kanopy (unlimited on Kanopy kids)
New users, create a FREE account with your library card and PIN# here: www.kanopy.com (Don’t enter the last digit on your library card, if it begins with 24444…)
Access Kanopy or Kanopy Kids on your desktop or laptop, your TV, or download the app on a choice of devices: Apple | Android | Roku | Amazon
French eBooks & audiobooks
Cantook Station est la solution simplifiée et reconnue de prêt de livres numériques conçue pour épauler les bibliothécaires dans leur mission et favoriser le développement de leurs collections
FREE access with your library card & PIN#: French-language eBooks & audiobooks for all ages
To read on a mobile device, get the Aldiko Next app from the App or Play Store. (Support info about the app at this page.) Note: you do not sign in to this app via Feedbooks, skip through that until you sign in via your library & library card.
Please note: IN-library French books for adults (browse the catalogue here) & children (browse the catalogue here) are available too.
Our Ontario.ca
Search across hundreds of sites in seconds.
Our Digital World and Our Ontario are the result of widespread consultations between the Ontario Library Association (OLA) and provincial stakeholders representing Ontario’s public libraries, colleges, universities, public schools, and government ministries.
Our Digital World
Dozens and dozens of partners’ digital collections across Ontario – community newspapers, oral histories, a Women’s Institutes portal, a Great Lakes Ships Database, museum collections, photo archives and more.
TPL free archive
Photos, maps, manuscripts, digitized books, primary source material & more from Toronto Public Library
CBC Corner English & French
Discover the best Canadian shows, stories & podcasts- including educational kids content, news in foreign languages and much more!
Try Mauril, CBC’s free language learning app too
“Best Apps” ideas
Your library suggests a few useful apps: Find my Phone • Duo Lingo • Plant Snap • Lumosity • Merlin Bird ID • more
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Browse this awesome resource! To view the 100 biographies most frequently read in English or in French, click on the language of your choice.
Visit the entries for local “celebs” Dr. James Naismith & R. Tait McKenzie. Enjoy!
The Canadian Encyclopedia
The Canadian Encyclopedia is a fact-checked information source published by Historica Canada. Search over 14,000 available articles on numerous subjects including history, popular culture, events, people, places, politics, arts, First Nations, sports and science. Articles are published in French and English.
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters
This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
