There are many places to look online for ebooks and audiobooks. Finding sources that are truly free can be very time consuming. One starting place is in the English Collection found under the New Resources tab above.

Burnaby District Site 
• Our newly created Continuing Learning Website can be found at: https://learning.burnabyschools.ca/. The
resources on this site are intended to support students with self-directed learning activities across a wide
variety of subject areas.

• The Ministry of Education has created a Keep Learning Website to provide resources where families can find
ideas for everyday educational activities, annotated links to free learning resources, as well as how to help
children learn and support their well-being while they are at home. This site is linked in our resources page, and can be found directly here: www.openschool.bc.ca/keeplearning/

Databases are online collections of information typically from reference books, journals, magazines, newspapers, and books. Unlike a free search engine (ie. Google), this information can only be found and accessed through databases which require a username and password. We subscribe to a number of them including the following:

All Gale Databases

Individual databases can be searched using this link. Click on the Gale ion for the Burnaby Central search page.

All EBSCOHost Databases

Individual databases can be searched through this link. Click on the EBSCOhost icon.

Other encyclopaedias:

A letter from Burnaby Public Librarian, Andrea Lukic

I am writing to let you know that although Burnaby Public Library is currently closed physically, we are still open virtually. I know this week is overwhelming and uncertain, so I wanted to reach out and let you know we are here to support you. We have tons of e-books and audiobooks<https://www.bpl.bc.ca/teens/teen-collections-at-the-library/ebooksandaudiobooks> for teens.

During our closure, students will be Burnaby address can sign up a new library card over the phone 604-436-5400, Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm.

*Students who live outside of Burnaby should contact the library associated to their address.”

All the best!!!

Andrea Lukic
Librarian, Teen Services
Burnaby Public Library
t: 604-314-2480 | e: andrea.lukic@bpl.bc.ca
pronouns: she/her/hers ?

Flight of the Hummingbird  (link to youtube video)

This Haida Manga video is based on the book and artwork by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Film by Christopher Auchter, Trickster Animation House
Narration by Lark Clark
Music by Big City Indians.

Hummingbirds have long been a symbol of wisdom and courage. In this charming story, a hummingbird makes a valiant effort to put out a raging fire that threatens her forest home — trip after trip, her beak is filled each time with just a drop of water. Her efforts show her woodland companions that doing something — anything — is better than doing nothing at all. The hummingbird parable, which originates with the Quechuan people of South America, has become a talisman for environmentalists and activists worldwide committed to making meaningful change. This retelling, enlivened by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ fabulous Haida Manga illustrations, is suitable for all ages of would-be activists. Although environmental responsibility often seems like an overwhelming task, Flight of the Hummingbird shows how easy it is to start and how great the effect could be if everyone just did what they could.

Bella Bella, British Columbia (January 24, 2019) – The release of an audiovisual immersion into millenia-old Heiltsuk teachings and language is being celebrated with the opening of a Húy̓at exhibit and launch of a new interactive website this Friday (January 25). Media are welcome at the event starting at 11am at the Saywell Hall 10075 (main floor), SFU campus.
Húy̓at: Our Voices our Land (www.hauyat.ca) is an audiovisual tribute to Húy̓at (pronounced: hoy-ett), a 6,000 year old village site where Heiltsuk conduct important cultural work, including sharing traditions and language with their children. Through the blending of video, photos, personal testimony, oral traditions and an interactive map, users experience firsthand the inextricable connection between land and culture that has defined the Heiltsuk for over 14,000 years.
“Understanding is fundamental to the reconciliation process. Reconciliation with Heiltsuk or any of the nations up and down this coast means understanding what it means to be connected to the land,” says Heiltsuk Chief Councillor Marilyn Slett. “The Húy̓at website is dedicated to our children, community, and ancestors, but it is a resource for all seeking to better understand First Peoples’ culture and our connection to our homelands.”

Using the site, visitors can:

• practice the Heiltsuk language as they take a self-guided tour of the landscape;
• watch and listen to recordings of Elders and knowledge keepers recount Heiltsukstories, teachings, and cultural fundamentals;
• explore an in-depth timeline of Heiltsuk history and a parallel accounting ofobstacles to cultural learning faced by modern Heiltsuk; and
• hear Elders, knowledge keepers and others speak openly about their connection to Húy̓at.

The Wildcats Read titles are locating in the book case next to the library classroom door.

Ask if any of your classmates have read one – recommendations from friends is one to learn about a new book. 

Read the summary and comments on the back of the book – something their might click.

Watch book trailers on publishers sites and other sites like youtube.

Read book reviews.

Check in Titlepeak on Central’s library catalogue – it includes summaries and book reviews.

Sources: publisher sites

Short Film Screening and presentation by Haida filmmaker
Christopher Auchter
November 1 blocks 3 and 4.

The Mountain of SGaana is directed by Christopher Auchter, who co-wrote the story with Annie Reid. Sound design is by Chris McLaren; original music by Daniel Janke; and additional animation was created by Tara Barker, Marco Li and Sitji Chou. Associate producer is Teri Snelgrove. Executive producers are Shirley Vercruysse and Michael Fukushima. The Mountain of SGaana is a production of the NFB’s BC & Yukon Studio and launch in the fall of 2017. You are invited to read about Christopher Auchter on this blog posting from the National Film Board of Canada.