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Ancestry.com
Link: Login from the Library
Instructions
Ancestry.com can only be accessed from within a library branch or the PEC Archives. Clicking the Ancestry.com link above will take you directly to the search page.
Description - Genealogical Research
Ancestry.com is the largest family history site online with over 4 billion names in worldwide historical records, family tree services and genealogy learning materials. Search family trees, census and voters lists, birth, marriage and death records, immigration, emigration and military records, periodicals and more.
Career Cruising
Link: Login
from Home or the Library
Instructions
If you are connecting from a library branch click the link above and
you will be taken directly to Career Cruising. If connecting
from outside of the library, you may need to enter your 14-digit
library card number.
Description - Career Cruising
Career Cruising is an industry-leading online career guidance and planning system. People of all ages use our tools to find the right career, explore education and training options, and build their own portfolio.
Canada in Context
Link: Login from Home or the Library
Canada in Context covers a broad range of Canadian topics,
people, places, events. Written from a Canadian perspective with
full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source
documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites all
organized into a user-friendly portal experience.
Canadian Points of View
Instructions
If you are connecting from a library branch click the link above and you will be taken directly to Canadian Points of View. If connecting from outside of the library, you will need to enter your 14-digit library card number.
Description - Canadian Essay Help
Canadian Points of View is a database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world's top political and societal publications. This database has a deliberate Canadian focus that highlights the issues in the country of Canada.
Chilton - Auto Repair
Link: Login from Home or Library
ChiltonLibrary.com represents the
most authoritative automotive repair information available to car
owners. There are thousands of year, make and model combinations
covering the most popular vehicles of the past 30 years, plus additional
coverage of specialty models.
Communication and Mass Media Collection
Description
This comprehensive database helps researchers get the word out about the communications and mass media fields. Powered by InfoTrac, Communications and Mass Media Collection brings together information found in more than 250 journals. Nearly 3 million articles on all aspects of the communications field meet the
needs of researchers.
Computer Database
Description
For researchers who need to keep pace with the fast changing world of high technology, Computer Database is their Internet- accessible reference solution. With Computer Database, library users can access today's most well-read and influential periodicals on the computer, telecommunications and electronics industries -- all in one seamless search.
Consumer Health Complete
Link: Login from the Library or Home
Consumer Health Complete is
designed for the everyday consumer of health care information. It
provides convenient access to easily understandable health and medical
information. Users can search and browse within medical encyclopedias,
popular reference books, and magazine articles, as well as within
evidence-based reports, fact sheets & pamphlets, drug & herb
information, alternative sources, images & diagrams, and video &
animations.
CPI.Q - Canadian Periodicals Index
Description
This award-winning, full-text Canadian electronic reference combines reliable information with the convenience, comprehensiveness and speed of an electronic database. CPI.Q, the electronic version of the Canadian Periodical Index, provides the most-requested Canadian reference information available.
Criminal Justice Collection
Description
Criminal Justice Collection reforms the research process for researchers who are: Studying law or law enforcement, Training for paralegal service, Preparing for a career in Homeland Security, Delving into forensic science, Investigating crime scenes, Developing policy, Going to court, Writing sociological reports, and much more. Criminal Justice Collection makes research easy by bringing together information from more than 700 journals. Criminal Justice Collection takes users straight to the answers they need from nearly 4.3 million articles - helping them bypass the errors and irrelevant results that often accompany Internet searches. Updated daily, the database yields current, relevant results.
Description
Meet the needs of today's students with Gale's Discovering Collection. With its comprehensive coverage of core classroom subject areas accessible through an, intuitive graphic interface, the Discovering Collection will become a sure-fire hit among students from middle school to high school.
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
Description
Provides environmentalists, policy makers, corporate researchers, educators, students, geologists, engineers and more with a comprehensive, easy-to-access, online resource that answers all their environmentally related inquires.
Gale
Cengage Powersearch
14-digit library card number required when connecting from home.
Description - Periodicals,
Reference and Much More
Full-text newspapers, magazines,
reference books and Canadian newswires. Electronic resources and
materials that go far beyond what is available on the Internet,
including access to accurate, authoritative information resources that
are age appropriate for every citizen in Ontario.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Description
Gale Virtual Reference Library takes research to the next level by delivering great reference print titles in a database format. Gale Virtual Reference Library combines the convenience of an online search engine with the accuracy and authority of our 50-year publishing legacy. Electronic references covering a wide variety of topics and subjects - ranging from current events to classics and from Arts & Humanities to small business.
Garden, Landscape and Horticulture Collection
Description
Gardening hobbyists, master gardeners and biotechnologists alike will find practical applications as well as the scientific theories of horticulture studies in one convenient collection with the Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection.
General Business File ASAP
Description
A controlled vocabulary in General Business File ASAP enables precise retrieval of periodicals, newspapers, newswires, company profiles and investment reports in a single search. General BusinessFile ASAP is a fully international database designed to provide users with unparalleled access to over 50,129,138 articles containing: 200,000 company profiles; Thousands of investment reports; Late-breaking news and event coverage on companies, industries, products and executives; The latest in business theory, economics and favored practices.
Description
General OneFile is a comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 60 million articles at your fingertips with a single search query. More than 11,000 titles and backfile coverage from 1980 - from mainstream to specialized sources - and an intuitive search interface make this an unequaled source for virtually every popular, business and professional topic.
General Reference Center Gold
Description
This resource center integrates a vast array of key business and general interest titles to fully answer your reference questions -- all in a single database. From national news magazines and encyclopedias to core business journals, General Reference Center Gold has the full-text and image resources students and researchers need. This comprehensive reference database quickly delivers the answers to a wide variety of reference questions.
Hospitality Tourism and Leisure Collection
Description
The Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Collection provides unparalleled coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field. It is comprised of close to 400 industry journals from Gale's award-winning InfoTrac product line as well as current and relevant reference content from noted publisher Delmar, part of Cengage Learning.
InfoTrac Junior - Graphic Interface
Description
Designed for junior high and middle school students, InfoTrac Junior Edition features the titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum. With Junior Edition's diverse perspectives and strong full-text coverage, students will find the answers they need to all their general reference questions.
InfoTrac Junior - InfoTrac Interface
Description
Designed for junior high and middle school students, InfoTrac Junior Edition features the titles most critical to their libraries and curriculum. With Junior Edition's diverse perspectives and strong full-text coverage, students will find the answers they need to all their general reference questions.
InfoTrac Religion and Philosophy
Description
This comprehensive database quickly delivers the answers to a wide
variety of reference questions. Users of this collection can research
different religions, philosophies and how they impact our daily lives.
Description
InfoTrac Student Edition is specifically designed for secondary school students, providing instant access to screened, age-appropriate content from magazines, newspapers and reference books. The ideal alternative to random Web searching, InfoTrac Student Edition covers a wide range of subjects, from science, history and literature to political science, sports and environmental studies, offering reliable, authoritative content for classroom assignments and general reference research.
Description
Kids InfoBits is Gale's exciting new database designed especially for students in kindergarten through grade five. Complete with an engaging, developmentally appropriate graphic interface, premier reference content and the best magazines for elementary students, Kids InfoBits addresses the way kids learn and conduct research - and makes it fun!
Description
Students, law school faculty and legal researchers will all find the legal publications they need in LegalTrac. Drawing on a wide variety of the most highly regarded legal publications, LegalTrac provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
Literature Resource Centre
Link: Login from the Library or Home
Biographical information, overviews, criticism and reviews on writers
in all disciplines, from all periods and from around the world.
Military and Intelligence Database
Description
The Military and Intelligence Database periodical list has been hand-selected by Gale editors to meet the content needs of libraries serving military personnel. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and The World Almanac and Book of Facts. With more than 500 titles and more than 7 million articles (80% full-text), searchers are sure to find answers to their reference questions.
NetLibrary
Link: NetLibrary
Instructions
If you have not signed up for a NetLibrary account, you will need to do so from within a library branch. New accounts can not be created from home. From a library computer visit the NetLibrary link above and choose "Create a Free Account" in the top-right of the screen. Fill out the form and click "Create Account". After creating your account you will be able to use NetLibrary from ANY internet connected computer.
Description - Ebooks and Audiobooks
A growing collection of online accessible books (ebooks) and downloadable audio books covering a wide variety of topics. While you are in the library, sign up for an account and use that username and password to log in from any internet connected computer.
NoveList
Link: Login from the Library or home
Novelist K-8: Login from the Library or home
Description: The
NoveList database includes information on more than 180,000 fiction
titles for all ages with subject and keyword access; more than 36,000
individual subject headings (fiction); 200,000+ full-text reviews and
descriptions from Booklist, Library Journal, School Library Journal,
Publishers Weekly, and others. Searches can be limited by reading level,
using Lexile scores to match students with books geared to their
reading ability.Contents: There are now over 180,000 fiction titles, and over 4000 custom created articles and lists.Number of Titles: Over 180,000Vendor: EBSCO PublishingDatabase available until: December 2011
Subjects:
Literature and Language Arts
OverdriveLink: Overdrive
Download digital Audiobooks anytime and then transfer to your portable device, including iPods and other MP3 players. Made possible through funding from the Ontario Ministry of Culture $15 Million Investment in Public Libraries.
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Instructions
The Oxford English Dictionary Online can only be accessed from within a library branch. Clicking the link above will take you directly to the search page.
Description - Online Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis and in listing of variant spellings, and it shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Pebble Go
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The Emergent Reader Research Solution featuring Pebble Go Animals and Pebble Go Earth and Space.
Description
This set explores what makes people "tick" from childhood to death.
This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of
the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over
time.
Service Canada
Link: Login from Library or Home
Description
The Service Canada Web site has been designed to provide you with easy access to the information you need, for the services you want.
Service Ontario Link: Login from the Library or Home
Instructions
After clicking the link above you will be taken directly to ServiceOntario.ca. All services and resources are listed along the left and right sides of the page. If you need assistance, library staff will be happy to help.
Description - Provincial Government Information and Forms
ServiceOntario is now making it easy for residents to access the government information, services and resources you need, when and how you need them. Whether youre getting married or want to learn more about your workplace or industry, it's all here.
Note that ServiceOntario also includes Services For Businesses
TumbleBooks NEW! January 2011
Link: Login from the Library or from home
Online audio books. Also includes TumbleReadables.
These
Read-Alongs highlight the sentences as they are being read, turn the page
automatically, and offer the ability to follow along in 3 text sizes. The
collection features 8 categories containing nearly 125 Read-Along titles (and
an additional 100 large print online titles): picture books, early readers,
chapter books, middle school readers, YA/teen Novels, children's
classics and Shakespeare.
Teen Health and Wellness
Link: Login from the Library or from home
Teen Health and Wellness provides teens and young adults, twelve through nineteen years of age, with curricular support and self-help on topics including diseases and conditions; drugs and alcohol; nutrition and fitness; mental and emotional health; sexuality and sexual health; bullying and internet safety; green living; family life, and more.
VDX - Interlibrary Loan Search
Instructions
Click here for detailed instructions.
Description - Search and Borrow Library Holdings in Southern Ontario
Interested in reading a book or watching a DVD that the County of Prince Edward Public Library does not own? If you'd like to confirm that a book is available before we request it from another library, search "VDX". This tool allows you to search many libraries in Southern Ontario. If you find a title or titles that you'd like to request, you can do this yourself in a few, easy steps or send an email to illodept@peclibrary.org and include your name, phone number, library card number, and the title and author(s) of the materials you'd like. VDX can also be used to place your own interlibrary loan requests. Ask a librarian for more information.
World Book Online
Description - Online Encyclopedia
World Book Online Reference Centre contains EVERY article used in the 22 volume print set - but that's not all! It also uses state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, website links, and much more. This is a great resource for children's school projects as there is a World Book Kids' section just for them.
The Library wishes to acknowledge the contribution of the
Southern Ontario Library Service
and Ontario Library Service -
North in providing many of these resources. The support of the
Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Tourism and
Culture is gratefully acknowledged.
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