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Lloydminster Public Library

 
Alphabetical list of resources


Serial Solutions

Access by title to over 6,900 journals, magazine and newspapera available via the Reference Databases.

Title

Associations Canada
Full, detailed, and clearly presented listings on approximately 20,000 Canadian associations and international associations relevant to Canadians.

Atlas of Alberta Railways
A fascinating graphic approach to the history of railroading in Alberta. Includes maps,  photos, illustrations, charts, graphs, etc.

Auto Repair Reference Centre
Information on repairing and maintaining your automobile for model years going back to 1946.

Bank of Canada Currency Converter
Allows you to convert from/to virtually any currency.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
A collection of 11,000 searchable quotations, passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature.

BiblioBranchée
A French language database from Eureka that contains information from 33 French newspapers or transcriptions from Canada and Europe.

Business and Company Resource Centre
Provides accurate, up-to-date company and industry intelligence of more than 400,000 companies.

Business Index ASAP
Search magazines for information needed by businesses and professionals.

Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Covers the major movements in English and American literature from its early developments to the early twentieth century. Has useful biographical information and bibligraphies on major individuals and literary movements.

Canada 411
A Canadian telephone number directory with 12 million listing, includes postal codes.

Canada Yearbook Historical Collection
The wealth of historical data in Statistics Canada's annual Canada Year Book available free on the Internet. It covers the first century of Canada's history, from 1867 to 1967, with historical text, tables, charts and maps, supplemented by interconnected learning resources for students and teachers.

Canadian Almanac & Directory
Contains ten directories in one to provide robust information on a variety of topics, statistics, images, and over 50,000 names and addresses for everything from Airlines to Zoos - updated every year.

Canadian Atlas Online
The Canadian Atlas Online boasts an expanded inventory of timely thematic modules, including Climate Change and the Rivers of Canada. The site's popular mapping tool currently features 1:50,000 scale data, providing users with street-level detail.

Canadian Business and Current Affairs (CBCA)
Canada's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic full text reference and current events database with four subsets Reference, Current Events, Business and Education.

Canadian Encyclopedia
A multimedia tool and encyclopedia on Canadian history and culture.

Canadian Environmental Directory
Canada's most complete national listing of environmental Associations and Organizations, Governmental Regulators and Purchasing Groups, Product and Service Companies, Special Libraries.

Canadian Geographic Online Atlas
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society proudly presents a groundbreaking Internet achievement, The Canadian Atlas Online, which brings cartography to life with exciting graphics and animation. This state-of-the-art interactive atlas allows you to explore Canada in a way youÙve never experienced before.

Canadian Health Network
Bringing together the best information resources of leading Canadian and international health organizations.

Canadian Mental Health Association. Saskatchewan Division
Users can clickthrough to the library catalogue which has many resources; provides contact info for the regional offices of the Assoc., and provides links about many mental health issues. Library material can be borrowed by both individuals and organisations after they register and perhaps pay a fee.

Canadian Music Periodical Index
An index of articles from Canadian music periodicals. CMPI is a free service provided by the National Library of Canada. Texts of articles are not available, but can be obtained through interlibrary loan at your local library.

Canadian Newsstand
Access to the full text of Canadian major national newspapers including Saskatoon Star Phoenix and Regina Leader Post. It also contains Prairie regional daily and weekly newspapers to provide a complete geographic coverage to Saskatchewan.

Canadian Parliamentary Guide
Published since before Confederation, this is the most complete guide, providing comprehensive information and biographies on elected and appointed members in federal and provincial government.

Canadian Periodical Index: CPI.Q
Search a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines and newspapers for information important to Canadians.

Canadian Research Index
Includes all depository publications of research issued by the federal provincial and municipal governments, non-depository publications issued by hundreds of Canadian government agencies and departments, as well as policy, social, economic, political, scientific and technical report literature issued by research institutes and government laboratories. It offers descriptive abstracts and detailed bibliographic citations.

Charity Central
A project of the Legal Resource Centre of Alberta, designed to help Canada's Registered Charities understand their responsibilities under the Income Tax Act. Provides information and resource materials (in English and French) to Registered Charities to help them comply with the requirements of the Act. It was launched in 2008 and will conclude in March 2010.

The Cochrane Library
A collection of evidence-based medicine databases, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Provides authoritative biographical information on Canada's historical figures. The first phase presents persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years.

Directory of Libraries in Canada
Lists approximately 7,000 public, academic, corporate and government libraries as well as archives, library associations and regional library systems. Listings include library information, personnel details including names and email address, collection information and services available to users.

Discovering Collection
A comprehensive database of in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science and Social Studies.

Education Collection
Formerly known as Canadian Education Directory, part of CBCA Education, now is available at Canada Info Desk to provide access to Canadian educational organizations, contacts and resources.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Access to 3 encyclopedias: the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Also includes access to research tools, Merriam-WebsterÙs dictionary and thesaurus, and rich multimedia—all in an advertising-free environment.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers - with full text and images.

Financial Services Canada
With over 18,000 organizations and hard-to-find business information, this is the most up-to-date source for names and contact numbers of industry professionals, senior executives, portfolio managers, financial advisors, agency bureaucrats and elected representatives.

First Nations Periodical Index
Contains journals of mainly Canadian Native content. This Index is a tool providing access to information about First Nations for students (high school or university), educators, instructors and researchers.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
A collection of eBooks covering a number of topics. Can be searched individually or in groups.

General Business File ASAP
Delivers every type of information your library users need for truly comprehensive business research: full-text journals, investment reports, directory listings and newswire releases, as well as indexing of three national newspapers.

General Reference Center
Search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information on current events, popular culture, the arts and sciences, sports, etc.

General Reference Center Gold
Search key business and general interest titles from national newsmagazines, encyclopedias and core business journals.

Governments Canada
Regularly updated listings on approximately 8,000 federal, provincial, territorial and municipal government departments, offices and agencies across Canada. Branch and regional offices are also included, along with all associated agencies, boards and commissions.

Greenfile
A freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.

Health and Wellness Resource Center
Search magazines, reference books, and newspapers for information related to your health.

Health Reference Center Academic
Search magazines, reference books and pamphlets for information related to your health.

Index to Canadian Legal Literature

InfoTrac Onefile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics.

Junior Edition
Students can search magazines, newspapers and reference books when researching a topic for school.

Kids Infobits
Elementary students can easily search magazines, newspapers and reference books.

LegalTrac
Find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers.

Literature Resource Center
Covers biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of over 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other authors.

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
This online version has the main A-Z listing of the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Tenth Edition, and Collegiate® Thesaurus.

Medline Plus Tutorials
Interactive health education resources from the Patient Education Institute. Each tutorial uses animated graphics to explain a condition or procedure in easy-to-understand language.

Multilingual and ESL Resources
A compilation of free online sites with material of interest for immigrants and heritage language communities in Saskatchewan. It has three main sections: i.section on heritage languages and culture material (newspapers, radio stations, onine books in world languages); ii. resources for newcomers, iii. ESL material (tutorials, lessons, excercises, etc.). All sites have been tested and their content evaluated for quality assurance.

Newspaper Direct
A web-based portal which provides anyone, from the casual reader to the formal researcher, access to over 1400 newspapers and magazines from more than 82 countries in 39 languages.

NoveList
A fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists.

NoveList K-8
Allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in the classroom.

Peel's Prairie Provinces
Dedicated to assisting researchers of all types in their exploration of the history and culture of the Canadian Prairies. Contains both an online bibliography of books, pamphlets, and other materials related to the development of the Prairies and a fully searchable collection of the full texts of many of these items.

Repére
Full text of articles appearing in key Quebec periodicals, as well as citations to articles from French-language periodicals published since 1980.

Saskatchewan Book Archive Project
A searchable online database of all books written and published in Saskatchewan since 1905. The Archive includes text, audio and soon, video samples of featured books, authors and publishers.

Saskatchewan Executive and Legislative Directory
Provides a convenient and authoritative historical record of the people who have been connected with public affairs in Saskatchewan as members of the Executive Council and the Legislative Assembly, as permanent heads of the chief government departments, and as candidates in successive elections.

Saskatchewan Hansard
The Debates and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, (Hansard) is a verbatim report of the debates which take place in the Assembly.

Saskatchewan Mental Health Association
Users can clickthrough to the library catalogue which has many resources; provides contact info for the regional offices of the Assoc., and provides links about many mental health issues. Library material can be borrowed by both individuals and organisations after they register and perhaps pay a fee.

Saskatchewan News Index
Searchable index of stories published in Saskatchewan newspapers from 1884 - 2000. The Index was compiled from a number of print and electronic indexes of Saskatchewan newspapers.

Student Edition
Students can search magazines, newspapers and reference books when researching a topic for school.

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