Online books, audiobooks, magazines, movies, and more
We offer a wide range of sources for free eBooks, audiobooks, movies, and other digital media.
Language learning
Mango Languages
This PhD-created and linguist-approved software teaches real conversations in over 60 languages and makes it fun. Get the Mango app:
Google Play Store
Apple App Store
Transparent Language Online
Language learners can build vocabulary, practice skills, and maintain what they have learned with Transparent Language Online. With over 110 languages to choose from, including English for speakers of over 30 languages, there is something for every learner. Get the Transparent Language Online app:
Google Play Store
Apple App Store
Reading and literature
NoveList Plus
Have a book that you loved reading and not sure what to read next? NoveList recommends books similar to ones you have already enjoyed, or will help you find a new book to match your mood.
It includes information on more than 180,000 fiction titles for all ages with subject and keyword access; more than 36,000 individual subject headings (fiction); 200,000+ full-text reviews and descriptions from Booklist, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and others. Searches can be limited by reading level, using Lexile scores to match students with books geared to their reading ability.
Library card number needed to access. Get a card.
Genealogy and local history
Ancestry Library Edition
Provides access to information of interest to family history researchers. Coverage includes Canada, United States, the UK and more from over 4,000 collections.
For access to Ancestry Library Edition you must be in the library and have your library card and PIN ready.
Carleton Place Herald – Canadiana.org
Access to digital copies of the Lanark Herald and the Carleton Place Herald 1850-1925 are now available for free from canadiana.org. No sign-up required.
Frontier Life
This digital collection of primary source documents helps us to understand existence on the edges of the anglophone world from 1650-1920. Discover the various European and colonial frontier regions of North America, Africa and Australasia through documents that reveal the lives of settlers and indigenous peoples in these areas.
Carleton Place Local History
Straight from the pages of the Carleton Place newspapers of yesteryear, this blog covers the local history of Carleton Place, Beckwith and Ramsay/Mississippi Mills.
News and research
Canadian Reference Centre
Provides full text for leading Canadian newspapers including Canadian Press, The Guelph Mercury, The Hamilton Spectator, La Presse Canadienne (en Francais), The Record and Toronto Star. It also includes full text for leading Canadian reference books including Canadian Global Almanac.
Library card number needed to access. Get a card.
CBC Corner
This digital portal created for public libraries allows you to discover trusted news, entertaining TV and radio shows, educational kids content, news in foreign languages and more.
Ontario Newspaper Index
Two hundred years of Ontario newspapers, now online.
Health and wellness
Consumer Health Complete
Covers health and wellness from mainstream medicine to complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Information provided should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Library card number needed to access. Get a card.
Merck Manuals
Online version of the trusted and widely used Merck Manual. Explains disorders, symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, treatment and prognosis in everyday language. Information provided should not be viewed as a means for self-diagnosis or a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Careers and skills upgrading
Glassdoor
For more than a decade, the GCFLearnFree.org program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. From Microsoft Office and email to reading, math, and more, GCFLearnFree.org offers 125 tutorials, including more than 1,100 lessons, videos, and interactives, completely free.
Techboomers.com
is a free educational website that teaches older adults and other inexperienced Internet users with basic computer skills about websites that can help improve their quality of life.
G1.ca
provides G1 practice tests for anyone preparing for the written portion of their G1 driving exam.
NOTE: this is NOT an official G1 test website. Please visit http://www.mto.gov.on.ca for more information about licences and driving tests.
Teen resources and homework help
OverDrive Teens
ebooks and e-audiobooks for young adult audiences. Get the Libby app for Overderive
Google Play Store
Apple App Store
Canadian Points of View
Containing resources that present multiple sides of a current issue — including information on key topics of interest to Canadian researchers — this database helps students develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
Library card number needed to access. Get a card.
Consumer Health Complete
Contains dozens of articles on a variety of teen health topics from smoking and sexting to dealing with anger and coping with divorce. “TeenTalk” articles are aimed at teens, while “How to Talk to Teens” articles provide tips to parents on starting difficult but important conversations.
Library card number needed to access. Get a card.
NoveList Plus
Includes information on more than 180,000 fiction titles for all ages with subject and keyword access; more than 36,000 individual subject headings (fiction); 200,000+ full-text reviews and descriptions from Booklist, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and others. Searches can be limited by reading level, using Lexile scores to match students with books geared to their reading ability.
Library card number needed to access. Get a card.
G1.ca
Provides G1 practice tests for anyone preparing for the written portion of their G1 driving exam.
NOTE: this is NOT an official G1 test website. Please visit http://www.mto.gov.on.ca for more information about licences and driving tests.
Children’s resources and homework helpers
NoveList K-8 Plus
A fiction database designed especially for elementary and middle schools.
Library card number needed to access. Get a card.
OverDrive Kids
eBooks for children, including picture books, chapter books, and audiobooks you can download or listen to online. Get the Libby app for Overdrive:
Google Play Store
Apple App Store
Resources for parents
Language Express
Language Express Preschool Speech and Language Services System helps families in Lanark, Leeds & Grenville. They provide services for preschool children with speech and language difficulties. These services are free and available to children from birth until the beginning of their Senior Kindergarten year.
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit
Services to promote healthy living, healthy growth and development, prevent illness and injury and control communicable diseases in the community. Services are available to individuals and groups of all ages in a variety of places. A referral is not needed for any service.
Every Child Ready to Read
Every Child Ready to Read is a program from the American Library Association that sets out the skills kids need to practice to be prepared for reading when they get old enough. What are the skills? It’s simple! Talking, playing, singing, writing, and reading. Anyone can do these things with their child to help get things started.
Ressources en français
Consumer Health Information
(French language interface) offers detailed answers to the 200 most-commonly-asked health questions. Supporting the needs of patrons and patients, these answers are provided in evidence-based reports that feature graphics, illustrations, easy-to-read text and links to additional information.
Library card number needed to access. Get a card.
NoveList French Interface
A comprehensive readers’ advisory solution for fiction lovers. NoveList will help you to answer the question of what to read next.
Library card number needed to access. Get a card.
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!
Get the apps
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Transparent Language Online Learn a new language, or work on your English language skills. Google Play Store Apple App Store |
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Mango Languages Learn a new language. Google Play Store Apple App Store |
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Hoopla Stream movies, TV shows, music, graphic novels, audiobooks, and eBooks! Google Play Store Apple App Store |
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Libby (new OverDrive app) Download magazines, eBooks and audiobooks from OverDrive. Google Play Store Apple App Store |