Education

Official launch of NBPLS Online Resource Service (04/04/19)

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April 19, 2004

FREDERICTON (CNB) - Education Minister Madeleine Dubé today launched the Online Resource Service of the New Brunswick Public Library Service (NBPLS). Thanks to this new service, the public can now consult magazine, encyclopedia, and newspaper articles by visiting the NBPLS website.

"The Online Resource Service is a bit like having part of the library right in your own home," Dubé said. "This new service will facilitiate public access to quality information sources."

By using the Online Resource Service, the public can consult reference works as well as articles from newspapers and periodicals such as Les Débrouillards, Québec Science, Reader's Digest, the Ottawa Citizen, the Halifax Daily News, the Calgary Herald, Maclean's, Canadian Business, the Canadian Encyclopedia, and the Fodor's travel guides. There is also an electronic reference tool on health that is aimed at the general public and provides access to reference works, brochures, and magazine articles. All of these information sources are easy to find and are updated regularly.

Until now, people wishing to consult these documents online had to go to the public library, but that is no longer necessary. All they have to do is visit the NBPLS Web site and enter the user number on their library card.

The electronic reference tools available to the public through the Online Resource Service are:

• Repère: an analytical index to information published in about 260 French-language periodicals from around the world.
• Electric Library Canada: an English-language general database that provides access to articles from newspapers, periodicals, and reference works published in Canada and elsewhere. It features articles from Canada's main English-language daily newspapers, including the Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen, and Calgary Herald.
• Canadian MAS Full-Text Elite: provides full-text articles from close to 200 Canadian and American English-language periodicals and indexes information published in more than 460 periodicals. It contains the full text of several of Canada's major English-language magazines such as Canadian Geographic, Maclean's, Equinox, and Canadian Business.
• Health Source Consumer Edition: an English-language database that provides access to full-text articles from close to 300 periodicials as well as reference works and information brochures on health aimed at the general public. An excellent source for those wishing to learn more about health and wellness.

The complete list of electronic reference tools available in New Brunswick's public libraries can be obtained by visiting the NBPLS website at http://www.gnb.ca/publiclibraries and following the link 'Electronic Resources'.

Those who do not have a library card can obtain one free of charge by going to the closest public library or bookmobile or by visiting the NBPLS Web site and following the link 'Get a Library Card'.

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MEDIA CONTACT: Hugues Beaulieu, communications, Education, 506-444-4714.

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