Welcome to our Kids Space!!
The focus of our children's department is to guide children and their caregivers, through our wonderful collection of library materials, story times, and our interactive multimedia stations.
Our collection includes books, magazines, videos / DVD's, music CD's, books on tape / CD and a selection of comic classics for children of all ages. Parents can find helpful resources in our Parent's Collection and Daycare providers can enjoy our daycare kits which include stories, puppets, stuffed animals and other supplemental materials.
Children's cards are issued at any age. Bring a parent along for ID.
BPL Kids - Children's Services Newsletter
Take a look at the latest BPL kids newsletter to keep up-to-date on the latest events at the library! Hard copies are available at both the Circulation Desk and Children's Reference Desk. Our monthly newsletter is available for you to read in PDF format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.
What's New?
Elf Child Safe Browser
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.
This is ALWAYS accomplished because Elf checks every piece of content before it is displayed to ensure that the material is coming from a site that has been specifically approved them.
Elf maintains these high quality links in the areas of math, science, geography, reading, music, arts, writing and reference. Children have a chance to vote for their favourite sites within the Elf browser and these “Top Links” are listed on the main page. In addition to the educational content, there is a fun/riddle area filled with safe activities for all ages of children.
For more information about this new service, please contact us 613-342-3936. In order to obtain a copy of Elf, please email us at info@brockvillelibrary.ca. We will need your first and last name, library card # and your email address. We will then send you the file to install Elf browser on your computer as well as supporting documentation.
Supporting Documentation
If you do not have an email address or do not wish to provide us with it, you can download ELF from our Early Children's Literacy station using your own thumb drive. If you do not have the Internet at home at all, we provide free access in the children’s area of our library.
iBistro - Our New Online Catalogue
You can now access our library catalogue from our main
page at
www.brockville.canlib.ca. With this new system you can review and renew your library materials, as well as place holds from home. Check out the "Kids Library" section.
Children’s Early Literacy Station
We have recently added a Literacy Station in the Children’s
Department. This station is an educational solution targeted for
preschoolers through third graders.
It includes 26 educational games/programs across seven
curricular areas, all top rated by Children’s Software Review.
Some of the programs include:
Krazy Art Room * Millie’s Math House
Stellaluna * Peep Floats * Reader Rabbit Toddle
Spongebob Typing & Encarta Kids 2006
The dual head sets enable parents to listen
alongside their children.
Children’s Listening Centre
One to six people can listen to our talking books, or CD’s as a
group. Please sign up for this at the Circulation Desk.
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