Career Cruising

Career Cruising is an interactive career resource designed for people of all ages. If you want to find the right career, explore different career options, or plan future education and training, you've come to the right place!

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This premiere poetry on-line resource contains 250,000 full text poems and 450,000 citations, as well as poetry commentary, poets' biographies and literary glossary terms

• Looking up a poet's biography
• Viewing commentaries on poems and poets by well respected scholars
• Providing a glossary that answers questions about terms in poetry
• Finding poems for speeches, reports, term papers, fundraising purposes, cards & letters
• Refreshing the memory on well loved poems.

This database has been donated by the Friends of the Orillia Public Library

The user-friendly EBSCOhost search interface allows for easy searching of full text magazines, journals, newspapers, newswires, transcripts, pamphlets, reports, biographies, primary source documents, almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, photos, maps, flags and more.

Eureka.cc

Aa powerful search and management tool that allows you to quickly find relevant content. In addition to all the current news, you can even access archives from the past 20 years for certain publications and the full versions of more than 80 million documents. You can conduct targeted searches by combining keywords, by restricting your results to particular publication dates and by selecting specific souces . Specifically, you can:

• Perform searches among recognized sources using more than 20 operators (and, or, without, etc.) and numerous search keys (author, industry, subject, etc.)

• Save your searches and forward the results directly to the appropriate parties

• Access quality content from local, national and international sources

• Benefit from a vast selection of newspapers, trade publications, databases (company histories and profiles), wire services, radio and television program transcripts, etc.

Automate your searches so that the results are automatically deposited into folders you’ve created

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Historica

Histori.ca is a bilingual educational website developed to promote the teaching and learning of Canadian history and heritage on behalf of the Historica Foundation. It includes access to the Canadian Encyclopedia and many others

Knowledge Ontario - by Thomson Gale

A wide selection of databases useful to schools, libraries, professionals, researchers, government institutions and organizations. Contains a wealth of Canadian and international periodicals — including Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail; Maclean's weekly magazine; Canadian News Facts; and encyclopedic reference materials, such as the Canadian Parliamentary Guide and Canadian Newsmak. There are also databases for health information. Something for everyone.

Literature Criticism Online

For students, researchers, history buffs and literature lovers, there’s no better source than Literature Criticism Online to discover commentary on favourite books and plays by the scholars of the day.

NoveList

Your guide to fiction. Searchable database of fiction for all ages. Use favourite authors or titles to find other authors or titles of interest. Search by words that describe the type of novel you would like to read, or browse theme-oriented book lists, award lists and numerous fiction/author related articles and Web sites. [EBSCO]

Orillia In Pictures

Search the Orillia Photograph Collection

Pages of the Past

Search through the Toronto Star Archives -
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Proquest

Search for articles from Canadian Newspapers and Magazines

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William Sword Frost Scrapbook

View a whole scrapbook of local area pictures and information

World Book On-line

The Premier online reference source-containing every article from the 22-volume print set plus thousands more.

Also available as on-line resources

NetLibrary e-Books
Thousands of full-text electronic editions of published books. Register with netLibrary at any Orillia Public Library location, then search, borrow, read and return e-books at your home , cottage or office computer.