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Trace your family history by searching for historical records on Ancestry Library Edition. Records include census and voter lists, birth, marriage and death, immigration and much more! Note – In-Library use only.
Academic Search is a renowned scholarly resource providing superior full-text, academic journals covering the major areas of academic research.
The Belleville History Alive site is our on-going digitization project. You can find city directories, newspaper clippings on local businesses and other documents pertaining to local history.
Canadian Reference Centre is the largest collection of regional full-text content available to Canadian schools and libraries. The database includes leading Canadian and international magazines, plus thousands of images from the Canadian Press.
CBC Corner – This digital portal allows you to discover trusted news, entertaining TV and radio shows, educational kids content, news in foreign languages and much more! Pour CBC Corner en français, cliquez ici.
Ebsco ebooks offers researchers thousands of e-books from top Canadian publishers and authors. This e-book collection covers a diverse range of subjects including topics pertaining to Canada, Canadian history, native culture, politics and current events.
Gale Courses are self-guided college level courses available for free with your library card. The Belleville Public Library is excited to offer our community new alternatives to continue life-long learning and to build valuable career skills. For more information, please visit here.
Hoopla is a media streaming service that offers thousands of music recordings, audio books, graphic novels, TV shows and movies from major Hollywood studios, record companies and publishers. All you need is a valid library card to borrow up to 8 great titles per month. For more information, click here.
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries that offers viewers a large collection of over 30,000 award-winning films, specializing in documentaries and foreign films. For more information, please visit here.
Libby, by OverDrive is a free book lending service offered by the library that lets you borrow digital content such as e-books, audiobooks, and magazines anytime, anywhere with your library card. For more information, please visit our help page.
Mango Languages is an online and mobile app that helps people learn over 70 languages through interactive courses; pick up on new vocabulary, intuit unfamiliar grammatical structure, and train your pronunciation, all while boosting your cultural IQ!
Medici TV is the world’s premier resource for classical music programming. It includes 3500+ musical works from the Baroque period to present day, 3000+ videos of concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, and master classes, as well as 150+ live events streamed every year from the world’s most prestigious venues.
Find the perfect book with NoveList Plus our comprehensive readers’ advisory resource. You can find titles, articles, and book lists, including author readalikes, for both your fiction and nonfiction needs. Pour NoveList en français, cliquez ici.
The TumbleBook library is a collection of animated, talking picture books. It also features videos, read-alongs, puzzles and games for young readers.