What is available for me at school?
To determine what resources are available in the Tecumseh Vista Libraries:
1) click on the Webcat link.
2) type in your query in the search bar
3) using the drop menu, set the library to either 2- EL- Vista
or 3- SS- Vista
Click on: WEBCAT
1) click on the Webcat link.
2) type in your query in the search bar
3) using the drop menu, set the library to either 2- EL- Vista
or 3- SS- Vista
Click on: WEBCAT
What is available through a database?
Info that is available 24/7 !
The Greater Essex County School Board has purchased
E-library (for elementary students) and
E-library Curriculum Edition (for secondary students).
Due to cutbacks in provincial government funding all Knowledge Ontario databases will no longer be available after December 31,2011.
Click on:
E-library Elementary
Are you in Grade 3 to 8? Use this when you need information you can trust. You can find newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, videos and radio and T.V. transcripts (a transcript is what they said during the program). You can also find your Bookcarts, filled with great resources for all your school projects. No login and password needed when you use it at school. See your teacher or teacher-librarian for logins and passwords for use at your home computer
OR Click on: E-library Curriculum Edition
Use this when you need authoritative resources for your projects. Just starting a project? Check out the Topic directory to help get ideas and to narrow your search. Newspapers, magazine and scholarly journal articles, videos, maps, pictures and transcripts of television and radio programs and editor’s-pick web sites can be found here. Also included two special collections:
E-library (for elementary students) and
E-library Curriculum Edition (for secondary students).
Due to cutbacks in provincial government funding all Knowledge Ontario databases will no longer be available after December 31,2011.
Click on:
E-library Elementary
Are you in Grade 3 to 8? Use this when you need information you can trust. You can find newspapers, magazines, books, maps, pictures, videos and radio and T.V. transcripts (a transcript is what they said during the program). You can also find your Bookcarts, filled with great resources for all your school projects. No login and password needed when you use it at school. See your teacher or teacher-librarian for logins and passwords for use at your home computer
OR Click on: E-library Curriculum Edition
Use this when you need authoritative resources for your projects. Just starting a project? Check out the Topic directory to help get ideas and to narrow your search. Newspapers, magazine and scholarly journal articles, videos, maps, pictures and transcripts of television and radio programs and editor’s-pick web sites can be found here. Also included two special collections:
- History Study Center – use it for primary and secondary history sources. Includes historical documents, maps, pictures, multimedia and scholarly journals.
- ProQuest Learning: Literature – use it for author searches, literary criticism, literature reference, literary works. Includes Study Pages, KnowledgeNotes, multimedia resources and references (dictionaries, citation guides)
Essex County Library
Access the Essex County Library's
resources by typing your search query in the Search bar.
Use the Research and Reference link to access the online databases.
An Essex County Library card and a PIN is needed to access these resources.
Click on: Essex County Library
resources by typing your search query in the Search bar.
Use the Research and Reference link to access the online databases.
An Essex County Library card and a PIN is needed to access these resources.
Click on: Essex County Library
Windsor Public Library
Access the Windsor Public Library's resources via the "Search Library Catalogue" function.
Under the "Research" dropdown menu, choose "Researching with databases" to access valuable databases -- including Knowledge Ontario databases!
All that is necessary is a Windsor Public Library card AND a PIN to access these valuable resources. This service is free to Essex County residents.
Click on: Windsor Public Library
Under the "Research" dropdown menu, choose "Researching with databases" to access valuable databases -- including Knowledge Ontario databases!
All that is necessary is a Windsor Public Library card AND a PIN to access these valuable resources. This service is free to Essex County residents.
Click on: Windsor Public Library