Digital Library News

Cape Breton Regional Library’s Digital Library services are available online anytime anywhere. Most services require logging in with your library card number and PIN.

eBooks & Audiobooks

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Libby/Overdrive

The library’s core eBook and audiobook collection provides you with thousands of titles to choose from. Read in your browser, on your mobile device or on a dedicated eReader.

Get Libby

Go to Overdrive website

hoopla

Borrow movies, television shows, documentaries, music, eBooks, comics and audiobooks for free.
You can borrow 5 hoopla titles each month.

Go to hoopla

Hoopla Information & Help Getting Started

Updating your library card number in Hoopla

LOTE

LOTE Online for Kids has 1500+ digital picture books in 50+ languages,
with new books and languages released each month. Each book also comes
with English translations to help kids learn language.

Go to LOTE

Magazines & Newspapers

Libby now provides access to thousands of popular and specialty magazines, borrow as many as you want, with no wait times and no due dates. (Previously available through rbDigital)

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PressReader provides instant access to thousands of newspapers and magazines from around the world, included your favourite local newspapers.

Go to PressReader

Movies, TV & Music

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Kanopy

Kanopy offers a wide range of independent films, classic cinema, documentaries, educational videos, children’s shows and foreign films.
You can borrow 5 Kanopy titles each month. Access to Kanopy Kids is unlimited.

Go to Kanopy

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Kanopy information & help

hoopla

Borrow movies, television shows, documentaries, music, eBooks, comics and audiobooks for free.
You can borrow 5 hoopla titles each month.

Go to hoopla

Hoopla information & help getting started

Updating your library card number in Hoopla

Accessible Library Services

Accessible Collections in-depth

CELA (Centre for Equitable Library Service) offers books, magazines & newspapers in accessible formats for people with print disabilities. The Collection includes award winners, best sellers, fiction and non-fiction with a special emphasis on Canadian authors and stories, and favourites for kids and teens. Patrons have access to close to 50 newspapers and 150 DAISY magazines which are available on the same day they are published.

Go to CELA Website
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National Network for Equitable Library Service.
NNELS is a growing collection of downloadable audiobooks and other accessible formats available for people with print disabilities.
NNELS titles can be used on a wide variety of devices, including computers/ laptops, iPads, iPhones, Android devices, MP3 players, DAISY readers, and can also be burned on to CDs or copied to USB flash drives.
Cape Breton Regional Library has made many NNELS titles available on DAISY-CDs.
Contact your Library to register for NNELS and then search the NNELS website for books.

Go to NNELS Website

Learn

The Reference Shelf by Salem Press, includes access to reference works in the following subject areas: Literature, History, Science, and Health.

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The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high quality independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.

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Local History Portals

Huntington Diaries

Part of CBRL’s Nova Scotia Collection, the diaries of Melvin S. Huntington were donated to the W.W. Lewis Memorial Library in Louisbourg. The Library has transcribed these diaries to make them available online to a wider audience.

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Katherine McLennan – Through her Eyes

Explore this online exihibit documenting Katherine McLennan’s life and work. Includes numerous photo galleries, letters and diary excerpts.

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McLennan’s of Petersfield

The McLennan family helped to nuture the arts, culture, and heritage of Cape Breton. Read more about eh family’s business enterprises, the estate at Petersfield and the family’s role in the restoration of the Fortress of Louisbourg.

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The Freeman Collection
1911-1924

This exhibit tells the story of Charles Freeman, who served as the American Consul in Sydney from 1911 until 1924, using the documents and images he and his family left behind, while exploring the Cape Breton history of that time.

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Read more about Local History Resources available at CBRL.