Library Technician: Resources

A collection of history and social studies eBooks from the publisher ABC-CLIO.

Indexes 13,800+ magazines and journals, with full articles from over 9,000. Covers many subject areas.

Covers over 400 English language journals and magazines in such areas as engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management.

The government publishes documents and statistics on BC topics (transportation, the Olympics, childcare, etc.). Many documents are available online, look out for titles that 'web links'

BC Laws provides free public access to the early unofficial consolidation of British Columbia laws.

A wide range of socio-economic data about BC, including Census data and industry surveys.

CAMEO is a searchable information center developed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Materials database contains chemical, physical, visual, and analytical information on over 10,000 historic and contemporary materials used in the production and conservation of artistic, architectural, archaeological, and anthropological materials.

General overview on native peoples in Canada; includes coverage by region and tribe.

Articles from more than 20 major daily papers, including the Globe and Mail, National Post, Vancouver Sun, Province, Times-Colonist, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, and Toronto Star.

A primary source of indexing to magazines and journals in all areas of education from childhood to adult and post-secondary education; also included are references to research reports in education.

You can limit your search to only full text articles in ERIC Digests which are short reports (1000 to 1500 words) on current topics in education. At the simple search screen, select the checkbox labelled "Full-text Eric Digests". Citation and abstract only

Formerly Outlook Online.
Union catalogues that list books, periodicals and audiovisual materials held by BC public and academic libraries.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences collections I-IX provide access to over 1,500 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, including anthropology.
Recent issues of journals are usually NOT available through JSTOR; issues are usually at least 3-5 years old.

Short, concise videos on a broad range of subjects including 3D animation, business, coding, design, photography, video, web development with new courses are added every week.Available to Langara students, faculty and staff with authorized login. Click on the "Sign In" link located at top right-hand corner of the page. Choose the "Sign in with your organization account" option. Enter your Langara email address and press continue. You will then be able to log in with your Langara email and password.

LISTA indexes more than 600 periodicals plus books, research reports, and proceedings, with the full text for over 240 journals. Subject coverage includes information science, search engines, librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management, and the information industry.

Includes photographs, maps, architectural and technical drawings

NoveList is a database of book recommendations for library workers who do readers' advisory. NoveList’s unique story elements like appeal, genre, and theme help you understand what about a book your readers love, and help them find more that are their style. Readalike recommendations are crafted by experts, and we let you know who wrote a recommendation and why the recommendation makes sense. We offer recommendations for titles, authors, and series, as well as audiobooks.

O'Reilly Online Learning is an online IT reference datatabase featuring titles that cover a wide range of topics such as: databases, design, IT management, multimedia, programming, security, software engineering, and web development. The reference content comes from IT publishers including Addison Wesly, IBM Redbooks, John Wiley & Sons, O'Reilly Media, The Pearson Technology Group, and Prentice Hall.
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