Digital Library

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2021 Census Postsecondary Research Kit

The 2021 Census Postsecondary Research Kit has been developed for college, CÉGEP and university students looking to use Census data in their research. It includes an easy-to-use research guide on Census of Population resources and on how the data can be used to answer complex research questions.

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ABCYa

Educational games for kids Pre-K through grade 6, as well as printable colouring sheets and activity pages.

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Ancestry Library Edition

Ancestry Library Edition is a genealogy site comprising billions of records in over 4,000 databases from Canada, United States, United Kingdom, and other European countries. Both beginners and expert researchers can access census, vital, court, church, and immigration records, in addition to historical maps and local histories. Please note: you can only access Ancestry from the public access computers in your local branch.

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Anxiety Canada

Anxiety Canada™ is a leader in developing online, self-help, and evidence-based resources on anxiety and anxiety disorders, and promotes understanding about anxiety and anxiety disorders.

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Canada Reads

Canada Reads is brought to you by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and asks: What is the one book that every Canadian should read? Canadian celebrities defend their favourite books in a lively debate format. Check out the rest of the CBC Books website for great reading recommendations.

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CanLII

CanLII offers free public access to approximately one million documents across nearly 200 case law and legislative databases.

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CBC Corner

Discover the best Canadian shows, stories & more. This digital portal allows you to discover trusted news, entertaining TV and radio shows, education kids content, news in foreign languages and much more!

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CBC Gem

CBC Gem offers free streaming of all your favourite CBC shows, as well as live television. Stream online using your web browser and on your devices using the CBC Gem app.

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CBC Kids

Games, videos, articles and quizzes all for kids!

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CBC Listen

Listen to CBC Radio Live, shows on demand, CBC Podcasts, and CBC Music Playlists. Stream in your browser and on your devices using the CBC Listen app.

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CBT-i Coach (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)

CBT-i Coach is best used when you are in treatment with a therapist trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. When you begin treatment, talk with your therapist about using CBT-i Coach mobile app. It is available for iPhone, Android phones, iPod Touch, iPad tablet, and Android tablet devices.

CBT-i Coach gives you a structured program to get your biological clock reset to make it easier to go to sleep and to sleep through the night.

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Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI)

Self-help resources for mental health problems. Includes information sheets and modules.

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Common Sense Media for Families

From Common Sense Media, a YouTube channel that provides families with solid evidence-based information on technology use for kids and teens. Not sure what the latest app is? Want to know the benefits and risks of social media for teens? Looking for tips on discussing difficult topics about the internet and technology? Common Sense Media for Families provides balanced and realistic advice for families navigating our technological landscape.

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Common Sense Media Ratings and Reviews

Common Sense Media provides hundreds of ratings and reviews of TV shows, movies, and video games to help parents decide what to watch with their children. The channel also provides advice on how to start conversations with their kids about various topics presented in media, as well as how to help manage screen time and mental health. 

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Common Sense Privacy Program

Common Sense Privacy Program evaluates a number of apps and websites so that educators and families can make informed decisions on what data they might be sharing online. Their site includes their evaluations, how they rate each app, privacy training, and research publications.

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County of Haliburton

Website for the County of Haliburton. Find bylaws, council meetings, local events and attractions, and more.

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Coursera

Coursera partners with more than 200 leading universities and companies to bring flexible, affordable, job-relevant online learning to individuals and organizations worldwide. They offer a range of learning opportunities—from hands-on projects and courses to job-ready certificates and degree programs. Auditing courses is free, with the option of purchasing a certificate upon completion.

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Crash Course

Crash Course is a YouTube channel created by authors and life-long learners Hank and John Green. Dedicated to anyone who wants to "learn stuff", Crash Course is a fantastic educational resource for students, teachers, parents, and anyone who has a thirst for knowledge.

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Digital Archive Ontario

Explore all digitized items held by Toronto Public Library — including over 100,000 historical photos, maps, postcards & more from Ontario.

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Fantastic Fiction

Search and browse bibliographies of over 50,000 bestselling fiction authors, with the latest books and series information.
Join over 100,000 members. Sign up for free and follow your favourite authors, keep a list of books you want to read, and keep track of the books you've read.

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FireSmoke.ca

Canadian portal for information about wildland fire weather and smoke. These tools and data serve professionals in the air quality, health & safety, emergency management, and science & research communities as well as the public. Includes and interactive map that shows fire locations and smoke forecasts.

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Forest Fires Ontario

Government of Ontario forest fire website. Includes an interactive provincial map with current forest fires and their status.

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Funbrain

Educational games, videos, and reading recommendations for kids Pre-K to grade 8. Use their grade browsing guide to find the games best for your child.

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GetCyberSafe.ca

Get Cyber Safe is a national public awareness campaign created to inform Canadians about cyber security and the simple steps they can take to protect themselves online.

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Glassdoor

Glassdoor lets you get the inside scoop on what it's like to work for a company by reading reviews submitted directly from those who know best—the employees. Combine this information with robust salary data and interview information, and you can find all the information you need for an informed job search.

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Go Ask Alice!

Alice! is not one person, but a team. The Go Ask Alice! site is supported by a team of Columbia University health promotion specialists, health care providers, and other health professionals, along with a staff of information and research specialists and writers. Our team members have advanced degrees in public health, health education, medicine, counselling, and a number of other relevant fields.

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Government of Ontario COVID-19 Information

Updated daily with provincial data, advice, and vaccination booking.

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Haliburton County Waste Wizard (Apple)

Search for waste materials to learn how they can be recycled, reused, or disposed of in Haliburton County. You will also find information on waste disposal site hours and locations, and you can sign up to receive notifications about upcoming events, operating hours, unexpected closures, changes in materials, etc.

This application can be used by residents in the municipalities of Algonquin Highlands, Dysart et al, Highlands East, and Minden Hills.

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Haliburton County Waste Wizard (Google/Android)

Search for waste materials to learn how they can be recycled, reused, or disposed of in Haliburton County. You will also find information on waste disposal site hours and locations, and you can sign up to receive notifications about upcoming events, operating hours, unexpected closures, changes in materials, etc.

This application can be used by residents in the municipalities of Algonquin Highlands, Dysart et al, Highlands East, and Minden Hills.

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Haliburton Highlands COVID-19 Response

Information from Haliburton Highlands Health Services including COVID-19 assessment tools, community supports for access to food, community services, mental health supports, and wellness services in Haliburton County.

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Haliburton Highlands Genealogy Group

The Haliburton Highlands Genealogy physical library is housed at our Minden branch. Contact a member of the HHGG to access resources there.

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Haliburton, Kawartha Lakes, Pine Ridge District Health Unit

Haliburton Kawartha Pine Ridge District Health Unit (HKPR) is our local health unit. Updated with COVID-19 information, beach safety, tick information, and other public health issues local to City of Kawartha Lakes, and Haliburton and Northumberland Counties.

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Halidex

Find articles from the Haliburton Echo, Minden Times, and County Voice. Microfilm is accessible in our Minden branch. Maintained by the Haliburton Highlands Genealogy Group.

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Health Canada COVID-19 Information

Updated daily with national data, information on social distancing, and self-assessment tools.

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Hinterland's Who's Who

Many will remember Hinterland's Who's Who by it's classic TV spots showcasing Canadian wildlife. Visit their website to learn more about the wildlife in our own backyard!

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Historica Canada

For Canadian Heritage Minutes and other resources on Canadian history and culture, visit Historica Canada.

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Kanopy

Kanopy provides streaming for movies, documentaries and tv series, as well as access to The Great Courses. Stream online in your browser, and on your devices with the Kanopy app. Sign up with your library card.

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Khan Academy

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. Subjects include math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content. 

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Lego.com

Lego.com offers free games for kids based on popular Lego themes.

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Libby

Borrow e-books, digital audiobooks, magazines, and more from your local library for free! Libby is the newer library reading app by OverDrive, loved by millions of readers worldwide.

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LingoLite™

LingoLITE™ helps you learn basic vocabulary in 30 languages from native speakers. Each vocabulary entry includes a color photo, a native speaker video, and the word or term in the local language and your native language. Users can change the interface language at the click of a button.

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Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic is famous for its world class healthcare, as well as its comprehensive and reliable health information online. 

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Merck Manual for the Consumer

The manuals are the product of a collaboration between hundreds of medical experts worldwide, an independent editorial board of peer reviewers, and our editorial staff of physicians and professional medical writers. With an aim to protect, preserve, and share the best current medical information to enable more informed decisions, enhance relationships between patients and professionals, and improve health care outcomes around the world.

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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

The dictionary by Merriam-Webster is America's most trusted online dictionary for English word definitions, meanings, and pronunciation.

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Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

Search more than 275,000 synonyms, antonyms, related words, and idiomatic phrases. Find concise definitions pinpointing the meaning shared by synonyms, and sample sentences showing how words are used in context. The thesaurus is more than just a list of synonyms; it is your guide to more precise and effective use of language.

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moodgym

moodgym provides self-help training in cognitive behaviour therapy to help you prevent or manage symptoms of depression and anxiety.

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Municipality of Dysart et al.

The website of the Municipality of Dysart et al. Find bylaws, council meetings, fire restrictions, local events and attractions, and more.

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Municipality of Highlands East

The website of the Municipality of Highlands East. Find bylaws, council meetings, fire restrictions, local events and attractions, and more.

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My Compass by Black Dog Institute

myCompass is a free online self-help program for people with mild to moderate depression, anxiety, and stress. It’s also appropriate for people who simply want to build good mental health.

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National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids is a free online resource for kids to learn more about the world around them. Games, pictures, articles and more!

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Novelist K-8 Plus

Designed for elementary, middle school, and high school students, NoveList K-8 Plus is an online database with fiction and nonfiction titles chosen specifically to support the school curriculum as well as the pleasure reading needs of students.

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Novelist Plus

NoveList Plus is a database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 120,000 fiction and nonfiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as author read-a-likes, book discussion guides, book talks, and feature articles.

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Open Library

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Users can contribute new information or corrections to the catalogue and browse by subject, author, or lists members have created.

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OverDrive

OverDrive has e-books and digital audiobooks you can borrow using your library card and access on your mobile device or e-reader. Our OverDrive collection is accessed through the Ontario Library Service Download Centre. Thousands of titles to choose from. Visit our E-books + Audiobooks page for tips on how to get started.

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PBS Kids

Educational games, videos, and podcasts for children to explore from PBS.

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PressReader

Get access to more than 7,000 of the world's top newspapers and magazines as soon as they are available on the shelves. Using the PressReader website or app, get instant access when connected to wi-fi at any HCPL branch. For access from home, click Sign In > Library or Group > select Haliburton County Public Library from the list, and login with your library card number and PIN.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg offers over 46,000 free e-books. Choose from among free EPUB books or free Kindle books; download them or read them online.

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PTSD Coach (Veterans Affairs Canada)

PTSD Coach Canada is a tool to help manage the symptoms associated with PTSD, it is not intended as a replacement for professional care. This mobile app provides information and self-help tools based on current research. Together with professional treatment, PTSD Coach Canada provides dependable resources you can trust.

Family and friends can also benefit from this app.

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Public Health Ontario Multilingual COVID-19 Resources

Fact sheets and guidance on COVID-19.

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Radioplayer Canada

Radioplayer Canada offers 500 radio stations from across Canada. Stream on your devices using the Radioplayer Canada app.

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Safe Kid Games

Safe Kid Games is where fun meets learning in a safe and friendly environment. Their mission is to provide age-appropriate, engaging, and kid-friendly games for K to grade 7. 

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Seek by iNaturalist

Take your nature knowledge up a notch with Seek! Use the power of image recognition technology to identify the plants and animals all around you. Earn badges for seeing different types of birds, amphibians, plants, and fungi and participate in monthly observation challenges.

Get outside and point the Seek camera at living things.
Identify wildlife, plants, and fungi and learn about the organisms all around you.
Earn badges for observing different types of species and participating in challenges.

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Self Compassion

All-in-one resource for self compassion. Official website for Dr. Kristin Neff, pioneering self-compassion researcher, author, and teacher.

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The Folio Prize

The Folio Prize is open to all works of fiction written in English and published in the UK. All genres and all forms of fiction are eligible. The format of first publication may be print or digital. The prize is awarded in March for books published in the previous calendar year. The Folio Prize is open to writers from around the world. Its aim is simple: to celebrate the best fiction of our time, regardless of form or genre, and to bring it to the attention of as many readers as possible.

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The Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a user-driven collection of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly three million public domain books. Home of the Wayback Machine, which searches archived web content. Also home to multiple special library collections including the Canadian Libraries collection sponsored by numerous Canadian academic and government libraries. 

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The Lambda Literary Awards

The Lambda Literary Awards identify and celebrate the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer books of the year and affirm that LGBTQ+ stories are part of the literature of the world. The Awards ceremony has consistently drawn an audience representing every facet of publishing.Check out the rest of the Lambda Literary page for more reading recommendations.

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The Man Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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The Scotiabank Giller Prize

The Scotiabank Giller Prize, or Giller Prize, is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English the previous year, after an annual juried competition between publishers who submit entries.

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Township of Algonquin Highlands

The website of the Township of Algonquin Highlands. Find bylaws, council meetings, fire restrictions, local events and attractions, and more.

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Township of Minden Hills

The website of the Township of Minden Hills. Find bylaws, council meetings, fire restrictions, local events and attractions, and more.

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TVO Kids

For decades TVO has produced quality educational programming for children. Visit their site for educational games and videos!