In the market for a tablet computer? Where can you turn when there are so many choices, so much hype and everyone wants your attention and your money? Consumer Reports provides independent information on consumer products and services.
Find it on the New Westminster Public Library's website at www.nwpl.ca.
The library's online resources are your virtual library where you can download electronic books, read full-text online newspapers from Canada and all over the world, conduct research for school assignments or even learn a new language - all from the comfort of your own home.
All you need is a New Westminster library card.
Click on Resources (purple button on the top right corner), type your library card number and password (the last four digits of your telephone number), and press "Enter" to explore a world of useful and reliable information.
In addition to Consumer Reports, you have access to these and many more online resources 24/7:
- Auto Repair Reference Centre: repair information for many vehicles from 1940 onwards.
- Canadian Newsstand: full-text articles of major Canadian daily newspapers beginning in 1985.
- Canadian Periodical Inde indexes nearly 1,200 Canadian periodicals with full-text from 550 periodicals.
- Encyclopedia of British Columbia: information about B.C., including historic photographs, statistics, maps, diagrams, and audio/video clips.
- Masterfile Premier: a multidisciplinary database that provides full-text information for nearly 1,700 general reference publications.
- Novelist: find the perfect book to read next, including 100,000-plus fiction books for all ages.
- Press Display: 500 newspapers from 70 countries in 37 different languages in a format that replicates the print version.
- Reference Canada: a business database that lists 1.5 million Canadian businesses.
- Rocket Languages: learn Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, English, Italian, Japanese, Korean and sign language.
- TumbleBooks eBooks for eKids: read stories and listen to audio books, all on your computer.
- TumbleReadables: an online read-along collection for elementary, middle, and high-school students.
- World Book: a comprehensive reference tool that can be customized for different age groups and academic levels.
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