Car Repair
Welcome to ALLDATA, the leading provider of electronic diagnostic and repair information for automotive service professionals. • Manufacturer TSBs and recalls updated daily • Crisp, clear OEM wiring diagrams with connector, ground, power distribution and splice locations • Maintenance tables - view service interval data on one screen • Automatic repair information updates.
You cannot use this database at home. It can only be accessed if you are at the Main or Crossings branch of Lethbridge Public Library.
Fiction, Poetry, Literature and the Arts
Booklist is a 100-year-old journal, published by the American Library Association, whose core mission is to provide public and school librarians with reviews that help them decide what to buy, and can also be used to make reading recommendations. Booklist Online is both a free Web site and a subscription database. The free site offers a generous selection of Booklist content—plus some Web-only features—and is updated daily or weekly, depending on the portion of the site. All the content on the home page can be accessed without a subscription, including any links on the homepage. The content of other main pages on the site is also free - Adult Books, Books for Youth, Media, and Reference. The subscription database contains archived reviews and features that are dynamically linked. The database contains over 100,000 reviews and thousands of features dating back to 1992. Much of the older material is searchable but not linked in the way newer content is.
Global books in print is an indispensable tool for librarians, booksellers, educators, students, and patrons -- anyone researching English-language books, videos, audio cassettes, and publishers all over the world. Access over 6 million English-language titles published in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other countries. BIP includes tables of contents, full text reviews, and annotations. Sub-search areas include: the Children's Room, Fiction Room, and Forthcoming Books Room. Includes an author biography database.
Please Note: You cannot use this database at home. It can only be accessed if you are at the Main or Crossings branch of Lethbridge Public Library.
Comics Plus is an online streaming service that includes tens of thousands of digital graphic novels, comic book titles and manga from a wide range of publishers catering to a wide range of ages and interests. From biographies, to historical fiction and from classic literature to mysteries, horror and romance there is certainly something for everyone!
Creativebug offers online videos, arts and crafts workshops and techniques. Learn how to paint, knit, crochet, sew, screen print, and so much more. Simply sign up for an account with an email address to enjoy unlimited access to thousands of online arts and craft classes. Watch the classes anytime, and anywhere. Since the classes never expire you can start and stop projects at your own pace. No pressure, just endless possibilities.
Stream and download thousands of movie, TV, music, and audiobook titles from hoopla using your library card
Kanopy, is an on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries and universities that offers films and documentaries. Kanopy's subdivision, Kanopy Kids, includes children's programming; all Kanopy member accounts have access to Kanopy Kids.
Easily borrow, place holds, read, listen and learn within the app in just a few taps. Instantly browse thousands of eBooks and audiobooks for free with the Libby app.
LOTE4Kids is a library eresource that allows kids to enjoy the magic of digital books in many languages from around the world, including sign language. Each book has an English translation to help develop multilingual reading and listening skills.
Enjoy the stories, learn to read more fluently, and enhance your understanding of other languages! New books and languages are being added regularly.
LOTE4Kids is available as a website or an app.
If prompted to search for your library, enter "Chinook Arch."
A fiction database for over 135,000 fiction titles. Content includes: subject headings, reviews, summaries, author read-alikes, 'what we're reading', book discussion guides, book talks, and annotated book lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are picture book extenders and articles on teaching with fiction.
Novelist K-8 is a student-focused interface and a database of young adult, children's, and easy titles designed for children in pre-K, elementary, or middle schools.
The Read Alberta eBooks collection has over 1,100 titles in a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction genres. The catalogue is browsable by genre, title, author, or publisher, and library patrons sign in using their library card barcode and PIN. The eBooks are readable on mobile devices, eReaders, and computers, with step-by-step set-up instructions for each type of device available: chinookarch.cantookstation.com/help/guides
Tumblebook gives you access to animated and interactive children's stories, games, and videos
History
The Blackfoot Digital Library brings together Blackfoot historical documents including field notes, photographs, and recordings.
Technologically innovative language learning tools to aid in the revitalization and preservation of the Blackfoot language.
The National Aboriginal Documents Database contains information that can be used for research projects such as documenting land claims, or for studying independent Statutes and Acts, Treaties and Court Decisions.
Canadian and Albertan History
With the aid of its partners and the generous support of Heritage Canada, Historica presents this site free of charge to all Canadians and to interested users around the world. The site contains the complete text of the acclaimed Canadian Encyclopedia in English and French, the text of the Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (in English only), numerous interactivities, feature articles, games, the Canucklehead Quiz, and an extensive timeline of Canadian and world events. The entire text can be searched via the simple search or advanced search and the user can switch languages at any time.
Explore the history of Canada's inhabitants and their culture, through this online database of people who played an important role in the formation of what is now Canada. A major research and publishing project launched by the University of Toronto and the Université Laval in 1959, this first phase of the project provides access to the published biographies of persons who died between the years 1000 and 1930 or whose last known date of activity falls within these years. Integrated into the country's largest archival repository, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online even paves the way to more extensive research.
A digital library providing access to more than 2 million pages of Canada's printed heritage. It features works published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early 20th Century. Collections included are: Canadian Women's History, Colonial Government Journals, The Early Governors General of Canada, Early Official Publications, English Canadian Literature, History of French Canada, History of the Hudson's Bay Company, Jesuit Relations, Native Studies, and Reconstituted Debates.
Peel's Prairie Provinces is a resource dedicated to assisting scholars, students, and researchers of all types in their exploration of western Canadian history and the culture of the Canadian prairies. This website contains both an online bibliography of books, pamphlets, and other materials related to the development of the Prairies, as well as a searchable full-text collection of many of these items. Peel contains over 7,600 digitized books and over 60,000 newspaper issues (4.8 million articles).
In partnership with local community stakeholders, the University of Lethbridge Library identifies materials for digitization which are of particular significance to Southern Alberta and Southern Albertans. Examples have include maps from the Sir Alexander Galt Museum & Archives and historic photographs from the Magee Family Collection. Each of these identified collections were acquired, digitized, described and made freely available on the World Wide Web using specialized digital library software.
Newspapers and Magazines
Canada Newspaper Archive (1872-2016) is a collection of about 100 online newspaper archives from Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland, including the Lethbridge Herald and Medicine Hat Times.
Flipster is a next-generation magazine service that allows people to browse digital versions of the latest issues of popular magazines, courtesy of the library. Magazines can be downloaded to Android™ and Apple® phones and tablets for offline reading anytime, anywhere. To download magazines to your app, go to the Flipster website on your device, click on a magazine cover, then select "Open in App" from the menu!
PressReader provides instant access to more than 5,500 newspapers and magazines from 100 countries in 60 languages. Access is available on PC, tablet & mobile devices. All newspapers appear just like the print version with the full layout preserved with all the text and images viewable. Over 200 Canadian newspapers are available including The Globe and Mail, National Post, Calgary Herald, Calgary Sun, and Edmonton Journal.
Note: Access to The Globe and Mail is limited to patrons using PressReader in a library branch due to restrictions imposed by the publisher.
The Southern Alberta Newspaper Collection contains locally digitized content from the following historical newspapers: Alberta Star, Barons Enterprise, Barons Globe, Cardston News, Cardston Record, Kainai News, Macleod Advertiser, Macleod Chronicle, Macleod Gazette, Macleod News, Macleod Spectator & Milk River Review.
Online Training
Sharpen your business skills with thousands of concise videos, book summaries, and audio summaries from top business thinkers.
Link to the Alberta Government's Driver's Guide to Operation, Safety and Licensing: Cars & Light Trucks.
This document can be printed at the library's public use computers. Please see a staff member at one of our library service desks if you require assistance.
Interactive lessons to help you learn a new language, including self-directed activities, teacher-led conversation classes, and pronunciation practice. Pronunciator's straightforward approach teaches language skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and cultural understanding. Choose from over 80 languages, and learn at your own pace or with the support of live, instructor-led lessons. Try Pronunciator on your computer or download the Pronunciator app to use on your mobile device.
SOLARO is a homework help tool, based on the Alberta education curriculum. It offers study help and exam preparation for students in grades three through twelve. Create an account, work through course lessons, reviews and quizzes, and improve your grades!
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Off site users must enter the access code: leth84228
Sciences
The Educational Resource Information Center provides access to education literature and resources. Includes full text of more than 2200 digests and citation information for an additional 1000 educational journals.
