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Skill building for all levels from Grade 4 Elementary to Adult. Covers many standard courses, basic education, and general subjects: math, reading, writing, vocabulary, computer skills, and more. Some material is available in Spanish. Practice tests are available for GED, TOEFL, TOIC, and for exams such as firefighter, civil service, citizenship, real estate, and more.
Also, we have access to Computer and Internet Basics tutorials until July 12, 2012: check them out and send us your feedback at eresources@vpl.ca.

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Pre-Kindergarten - Grade 2 children will love to learn with the LearnNowBC programs. Early reading skills are developed with Bailey's Book House. Millie's Math House helps kids jump delve into numbers. Sammy's Science House explores life sciences. Trudy's Time & Place House allows kids to visit the social sciences.

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Canadian, U.S. and international media, legal, and government full-text information; current and historical.

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Indexes library and information science publications, and provides full-text articles for over a hundred select publications. Includes conference proceedings, pamphlets, books, and theses.

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A great selection of popular fiction and non-fiction ebooks (EPUB & PDF) and audiobooks (MP3 & WMA) are available through BC Libraries: Your Library Without Walls. Titles can be downloaded to your computer and transferred to a portable device. Check your ereader or player for compatibility.

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Get the Overdrive Media Console app and download EPUB and MP3 files direct to your iphone, ipod touch, ipad, Blackberry, Android and Windows Mobile Devices.

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Find authoritative critical essays and biographical profiles in this comprehensive full-text database, which includes the hundreds of volumes of Literature Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, and 20th Century Literature Criticism. Modern and historical essays are included, covering all literary genres and periods.

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Resources for understanding works of literature. Includes the For Students literature criticism series, Something About the Author series, plus encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries and other authoritative reference sources. A subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

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Literature reference sources for grades 6-12. A subcollection of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

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Electronic resources are restricted by license agreements to Vancouver Public Library card holders and to on-site users for purposes of research and private study. Commercial use and systematic downloading, copying or distributing of information are expressly prohibited. Users are individually responsible for compliance with these terms.

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