We love to see you in person when you visit one of your four Library branches, but we also love it when you use your Library online. The Library website, www.tbpl.ca, is the gateway to a wide range of services, collections and communities which you can access from the comfort of anywhere in the world where you can connect the internet on your favourite device.
Log in to your Library account online to place holds, renew items and even pay your fines if you have any! You can search the Library catalogue and makes lists of books you want to read, and opt in to having our system save a list of all the things you sign out. There are two videos on our website at www.tbpl.ca/mycard which demonstrate all the things you can do online with your library card.
About six thousand eBooks are borrowed by our patrons every month. Our main collection of eBooks and eAudiobooks may be found on OverDrive at www.tbpl.ca/ebooks. There you will also find instruction sheets detailing how to use OverDrive on eReaders, tablets and mobile phones. There’s a handy app for reading on the go.
Hoopla is another source for eBooks and eAudiobooks, and also includes a huge collection of current music, movies, TV shows and comics. Go to www.tbpl.ca/hoopla to get all the details. There is a hoopla app available as well.
Do you like to read magazines? Zinio is for you! Visit www.tbpl.ca/zinio to access this online magazine collection. There’s an app for that as well. Since this collection was launched in January the most popular weekly magazine has been Hello! and the most popular monthly magazine has been Canadian Living. Almost 2,000 magazines have been borrowed from Zinio in the past six months.
Earlier this year we added a new online language learning program to our online offerings. Go to www.tbpl.ca/learnalanguage to explore Transparent Language. You can make an account and track your progress. There are over 95 languages available, including English as a Second Language options. The most popular language to date has been Spanish, and 86 people have logged in to 450 sessions.
If you need to check a fact, do some research or fix your car then head to www.tbpl.ca/virtualcollection and log in to My Giant Search. This will give you access to a long list of databases containing magazine, newspaper and journal articles, reference books and other reliable information you can use for school and everyday life.
You can connect with your Library, and our community, on social media. Go to www.tbpl.ca/joinusonline for a list of, and links to, our social media sites. We’re on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube and have several blogs. Follow us, like us and interact with us where you like to hang out online.
If you would like some help finding your way around your Library online, contact Margaret at mdemillo@tbpl.ca or 345-8275 x7251 to make an appointment for personalized help at your favorite Library location.
Joanna Aegard
The "@ Your Library" Column appears in the Sunday edition of the Chronicle Journal newspaper. The Column is written by staff at the Thunder Bay Public Library. Library staff also write for other publications, and those columns will occasionally be posted here as well. This blog helps us share our writing with a broader audience, and provides our readers with a forum for feedback. We welcome your comments!
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