Now you can enjoy the ELF Child Safe Browser at home
We have recently invested in the Elf Child-Safe Browser which provides 100% safe Internet use for your child, conveniently in your home.
The Elf browser allows your children to safely explore carefully chosen, highly engaging free-use educational resources on the Internet. Your children can work on their own and you can feel comfortable knowing that they are visiting ONLY sites that are wholesome, educational, and fun. More...
Calling All Book Clubs...
Book Club Kits are now available!. We have 10 titles that can be reserved and borrowed. Each kit contains 10 copies of the book and can be checked out for a 6 week period. Search our catalog for "Book Club Set" to get a list of titles, or ask at the circulation desk for more details.
Calling all crafters!
Brockville Public Library has gained the valuable services of an experienced scrapbooker and paper crafter who will be volunteering her time one Wednesday each month to lead classes!
Class #4: Easter Baskets and Blooms
Project: Features a series of fun projects involving stamping, watercolouring with crayons, fun fold cards and punch art. We will be making an easel card, an easter basket and a cute punch art chick card.
When: Wednesday, March 17th from 6-7:30 pm
Where: Library meeting room
Cost: $7 (includes candy)
**Pre-registration is required and space is limited.
Library Upgrades Internet Connection
Need to download large files? Now you can enjoy incredibly fast speeds on our new cable internet connection.
Top reported speed: over 10 Mbps!!
Stop Dead End Searching with
Novelist Select
More and more people are using the library from home to find books they have heard about. But what do you do if the book is checked out or there's a long hold queue. We have recently added NoveList Select to our online catalogue. Now when you search for a book, a listing of similar titles and authors is listed. You will find this below the call number information. Currently Novelist offers suggestions for over 4 million titles. Click here for a screen shot.
Available right in the results, Novelist Select also provides:
- Links to Recommended Reads lists,
- Author Read-alikes,
- Book Discussion Guides
To make it even easier, books suggestions only include titles owned by our library!
Chilifresh Review Engine
ChiliFresh Review Engine is a tool that allows users to read and write reviews for items in our online catalogue. If you’ve ever searched major online booksellers for user reviews to see whether something was worth reading, you can now cut out the middleman because Chilifresh brings that feature right into our online catalogue. This easy-to-use tool adds an element of social interaction to the catalogue. In addition to reading all the reviews you can also add your own review, read all the reviews that a particular patron has written, sort the reviews and select whether you found the review helpful or not. More...
Energy Meter Borrowing Program
The Brockville Library is partnering with the Brockville Climate Action Group to circulate energy usage meters.
What's an energy meter?
It calculates the cost of energy consumed by an appliance.
How can I borrow one?
To borrow one of these devices please visit the Brockville Public Library. You must have a valid library card to borrow a meter. Meters may be borrowed for 10 days. To place a hold on the energy meter, type "Energy Meter" as the title in our catalogue.
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