E-Resources
Canadian Reference Centre (with text-to-speech support)
The Canadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers & newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to Canadian libraries. Text-to-speech support gives users the option of listening to a synthethized voice reading the text of Canadian Reference Centre entries. This feature only functions with English language content.
Overdrive
Overdrive is a collection of audiobooks and e-books that will be available online through a website linked to the NBPLS website.
TumbleBooks
TumbleBook Library is an online collection of animated, talking picture books available through a link on the NBPLS website. TumbleBooks combine animation, sound, music and narration with existing picture books to produce an electronic picture book which can be read, and/or listened to from your home computer or a computer at your library.
Tell Me a Story
Many wonderful stories are just a click or a phone call away with Tell me a story. This French language telephone and internet based service allows children to hear stories in multiple languages. It is offered at no charge to New Brunswickers by BAnQ (Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec) thanks to a partnership between BAnQ and the New Brunswick Public Library Service.
Tell Me More
Tell Me More offers instruction in speaking, listening, reading and writing to learn English and French as well as other languages such as German, Italian, Dutch and Spanish. Tell Me More offers a speech recognition feature that assesses pronunciation. A set of headphones equipped with a noise canceling microphone is required to use this feature. Tell Me More can also be used without speech recognition.
Access is available to patrons from the Electronic Resources section of the NBPLS website. When users access the Tell Me More website for the first time, they must create a free personal account in order to track their progress and preferences.