Reference
- The Best Children's BooksThis website has a lot of lists of popular children's books by age group, topic, reading level, and academic subject. It also has links to helpful articles.
- CanLit for LittleCanadiansThis website highlights and reviews books by Canadian authors and gives them the representation they deserve. This includes direct links to dozens of Canadian authors and publishers.
- Canadian Children's Book CentreThe Canadian Children's Book Centre (CCBC) is a national, not-for-profit organization dedicated to encouraging, promoting and supporting the reading, writing, illustrating and publishing of Canadian books for young readers.
- Children's Literature - The Booklist ReaderExplore recommended and new publications sorted by age and genre
- The Booklist ReaderBooklist editors and freelancers write about everything from adult books to kidlit, from print and ebooks to audio and video, from editors’ rants to author Q&As to lists, book news, and much more.
- Epic ReadsHarperCollins Children's Books website and blog dedicated to the promotion of all things related to teen and YA books.
- Everyday ReadingEveryday Reading provides accessible and relevant reading to everyone. The author provides book reviews and advisories, but takes the extra-step to offer suggestions on how to incorporate reading into daily life.
- Fantastic FictionThis website provides a short biography of an author, lists all books they've written in the order they were published. It also has a list of read-alike authors and also gives a list of books that are recommended by that author.
- GoodreadsGoodreads is a popular book review website which allows users to make book lists, track read books, and see what friends are reading. Book ratings are completely based upon user reviews and recommendations.
- Literary Review of CanadaFor nearly thirty years, the Literary Review of Canada has prided itself on being a journal of ideas.Literary Review of Canada offers writers the real estate they need to thoughtfully respond to the country’s vast intellectual output — everything from policy and politics to history, biography, and fiction.
- Literature MapLiterature Map generates a web of authors that have similar writing styles and genres. This can be a great tool to use when you have patrons asking for help finding new authors and books.
- We Need Diverse BooksThis is a fantastic grassroots and non-profit organization that seeks to celebrate and promote diverse reads while also helping to support authors of diversity.
- Canadian Review of MaterialsCM: Canadian Review of Materials is published weekly from September through June and is an all-volunteer online publication that features reviews of books and other materials that are authored, illustrated, and/or published by Canadians and that are produced for/of interest to children and adolescents.
- BookRiotBookRiot is a website that provides book recommendations and reviews for different genres. Provides specific sections on young adult novels.
- CARL - CopyrightCopyright is an important issue for Canada’s research libraries. The sharing of information is governed by copyright legislation, jurisprudence and licences. Distinguishing what uses are allowed from what are not, is vital for librarians, students, faculty and researchers across Canada.
- Doody's Review ServicesDoody's Review Service provides extensive tools to allow you to research titles and keep up-to-date with the latest books and software in the health sciences.
- WorldCatFind what you want in a library near you with WorldCat, a global catalogue of library collections.
- CanLIIThe CanLII.org website provides access to court judgments from all Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, federal courts, and the courts in all Canada’s provinces and territories. CanLII.org also contains decisions from many tribunals nationally.
- Great LibraryThe Great Library is a library supervised under the Law Society of Ontario. It helps smaller law libraries with reference inquiries. The Law Society of Ontario organizes call numbers for many law libraries in Ontario.
- 2021 CensusThis site presents information from the 2021 Census of Population for various levels of geography, including provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas, communities and census tracts. For neighbourhood level (CT) data, use the postal code search or geographic code search.
- CANSIMTime series data tables from Statistics Canada. Physical activity tables are included in Health > Lifestyle and social conditions.
- Statistics CanadaStatistics Canada produces statistics that help Canadians better understand their country—its population, resources, economy, society and culture. In addition to conducting a Census every five years, there are about 350 active surveys on virtually all aspects of Canadian life.