Taken from staff email of April 3rd:
I sincerely hope you are doing well and taking care of you and yours in these difficult times.
As you move forward in developing plans and activities for our students, I wanted to send a shout out and remind everyone that the Pinetree Library has an electronic presence to help with materials. We have been compiling and sorting through access to resources in order to provide them in a way that is useful and not overwhelming for you. I hope to have a shiny, new library web page to make access and information easier up and running soon (thanks DL team 😊).
You can still log into the Pinetree Library Catalogue to access ebooks and databases, as well as develop a Collection to share with your students. Everyone can access this from home using their district username and password. I can certainly help with this, please let me help with this.
You can also access our district resources through the SD43 Website. A library channel has been created on the Pinetree Teams and we are more than happy to field questions or offer what aid I can to support your search of materials to suit your needs. Please, please, please, make us do our jobs to make yours a bit easier. This learning curve is steep and everyone can use bit of help.
Links to any of the databases may ask for a username and/or password, which is: sd43u If this does not work, let me know and I will track down the cause. The best bet is to go through the links on our catalogue. The following is a list of some of the items that are provided by the district:
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Secondary Level Resources
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World Book Online – World Book’s selection page with links to all World Book databases we have access to.
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| Explora Search |
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Explora Canada – New interface to search EBSCO’s databases in one friendly screen.
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Gale Engage Learning – Gale’s selection page with links to all databases we have access to.
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| KNOW BC – A major reference that brings together everything you always wanted to know about BC. |
| Web Library – Provides access to more than 85,000 trustworthy, relevant websites while filtering out questionable and irrelevant content. |
| Learn360 – Provides over 9,300 full digital video titles and over 28,500 video clips from A&E, National Geographic, Nelvana, Reading Rainbow, and National Science. |
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Curio.ca – Streaming access to the best in educational content from CBC and Radio-Canada.
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| EBSCO Host – EBSCO’s selection page with links to all databases we have access to. |
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Magazines – EBSCO – Browse through hundreds of magazines & periodicals
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National Film Board – Award-winning online Screening Room, featuring over 3,000 productions.
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Topic Finder – Find new topics or keywords and discover new connections.
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Canadian Encyclopedia – Provides updated information about our people and country
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Don’t forget, the public libraries are allowing for library card applications to be filled out online and accessing their collections too. They have vast collections of ebooks and online resources, such as Lynda.com and Hoopla.