Online Services A-Z

The largest online family history resource available, provides unprecedented access to family history via documents from all over the world. 

Participate in the Library's reading challenges. Keep track of all your family's reading logs in one account. Fun badges and great prizes for kids and adults alike.

Features full-text Canadian content, including magazines, reference books, photos, maps, and images from the Canadian Press.

Teaches you how to code through tutorials and real-world projects. Earn clothes and accessories for your personal avatar as you move through the activities.

Read online or download current and back issues of a variety of popular magazines and learning workbooks for kids and adults. An app, text view and printing of articles available.

On-demand streaming service with more than 1 million items to instantly read, watch or listen to on your device, tv or in the car. Includes audiobooks, eBooks, comics, music, movies and TV.

Access more than 16000 video courses taught by industry experts in Microsoft products, business, technology, and creative skills such as design and photography. 

Looking for something new to read? Try the book suggestions in our NextReads newsletters. See our Reading Suggestions page for samples and to sign up to receive the lists by email.

Discover great new reads based on books and authors you already enjoy. Includes book reviews, series in reading order, best of and awards lists. Special section for Book Clubs!

Help kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Browse for fiction and nonfiction suggestions, series information, and author read-a-likes.

The OPL app is available free from the Android and Apple stores. Scan a copy of your library barcode to speed up checkout. Allows you to easily manage all your family's library cards.

Tutorial videos created by Niche Academy staff and libraries around North America. Many topics are available - from help with using our online services to using social media or learning a new software.

Thousands of popular eBooks, audiobooks and magazines to download. Read on your computer or download the Libby app. All ages and interests, including books in 52 languages.

Online access to newspapers and magazines from more than 100 countries in over 60 languages. Includes the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun and National Post newspapers. Easy to use app.

Genealogists, researchers and students alike can explore the politics, society and events of Southern Ontario from 1894 to 2018 in full-page copies of the original paper.

Stream animated picture books, read-along chapter books, graphic novels, and videos on your computer or use the app. Stories come to life with graphics and sound in English, French, and Spanish. 

Learn about heritage buildings, view interactive maps, find a park, report a streetlight issue, see election statistics, planning applications and more.

G1 and M1 license practice tests and simulators for cars and motorcycles. A great companion to the MTO driver's handbooks.

Database of Dufferin County history - people, places, and events. Online catalogue featuring over 400 photographs of items and images from the collection.

Find photographs, maps, videos, oral histories, documents, newspapers and more from Ontario libraries, archives, museums, and community groups.

Ontario's go-to site for driver’s licences, plate stickers, health cards, birth certificates and many other services provided by the Ontario government.

Ensures Canadians have the key information on Canada's economy, society and environment required to function effectively as citizens and decision makers.