The Canadian Cloud Library is a new resource for school libraries offering easy, online access to 200+ books on Canadian history for use on tablets and computers. The books in the collection are written by expert authors for a general audience. Most are fully illustrated titles with colour on most pages. The library provides detailed catalogue information including a full description, author biography, review quotes, and table of contents. Its intended for reference use by students looking for reliable, accessible information for projects on Canadian history. Users can easily search for content across the whole collection. The collection is available to libraries on a subscription plan which offers unlimited multiuser access at all times to all books. This session will feature a presentation of the library by one of its developers, publisher James Lorimer and commentary from a school librarian who has beta tested the library in an Ontario high school library.
Learning Outcomes
- Familiarity with new digital offering featuring Canadian content
- How content streamed on the web can offer improved access to books in a librarys collection
- How curated quality content found in books can offer students higher-value reference material than a standard web search
