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CPF FRENCH INTERNET ADDRESS LIST

0230.    French Libraries

> Bibliothèque Nationale du Canada (National Library of Canada)
  http://www.nlc-bnc.ca

ttp://www.collectionscanada.ca/read-up-on-it/index-f.html
Bibliothèque Nationale du Canada - Lisez sur le sujet
French version of the National Library of Canada - Read Up On It

http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/pubs/ruoi/1995/ru95-6f.htm
National Library of Canada, recommended French language materials

 http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/services/fcollect.htm
 National Library of Canada, French language materials

 http://www.bnquebec.ca/
la Bibliothèque nationale du Québec

>  http://www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/biblio/pageacc.htm
 The Montreal Public Library,
 the oldest and largest French public library in North America,
 If users find something they would like to borrow from the library, they
 can go to their nearest public library branch and arrange for an Inter-Library Loan.

 http://www.bnf.fr
 Bibliothèque nationale de France

<>http://gallica2.bnf.fr/
Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) Online
The Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) is launching the new version of its numerical library which proposes 30,000 books published on its website. Most of them are in French, but some are in English and in other languages.  Gallica 2 is a new version of the BNF digital library; the Gallica 2 program is under development and will be progressively enriched over the coming months. 

http://www.bnf.fr/pages/zNavigat/frame/accedocu.htm
Poser une question à un bibliothécaire (SINDBAD)  
Le SINDBAD (Service d' INformation Des Bibliothécaires A Distance) est un service de réponses à distance gratuit.

http://rescol.ca/ln-rb/f/index.html  (site discontinued or moved)
RéseauBiblio

http://www.rescol.ca/accueil/f/services.asp#Jeunesse
Rescol
Jeunesse


The North York Central Library, located in the North District of the City of Toronto (formerly North York) has an
excellent French resource area for children as well as  adults. Everything from early readers to tapes, CD, videos games...
and more.
North York Central Library
5120 Yonge St. (Mel Lastman Square)
Toronto, ON
M2N 5N9
Phone: 416-395-5535 
http://www.tpl.toronto.on.ca/pro_nycl.jsp

The Vancouver Public Library has a childrens' French collection
at the Downtown central and Kitsilano branches.
  http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/general/catalog.html
The library has French books, videos and software for loan.
The downtown central branch has, in the French collection area, the Encarta French encyclopedia installed on computers for public use.

 http://webcat.vsb.bc.ca/
The Vancouver School Board Online Catalogue of Library Resource Materials
(They have several early and late French immersion schools)

 http://www.statcan.ca/francais/Estat/licence_f.htm
Statistique Canada
Statistic's Canada E-STAT is a dynamic and interactive teaching and learning tool designed with the needs and interests of
the education community in mind. It ofers an enormous wharehouse of reliable and timely statistics about Canada and its ever-changing people.

 http://www.asted.org/
L'Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de la documentation (ASTED).
The Canadian Library Association is the national English language association which represents those who work in or advocate for Canada's estimated 21,000 libraries. ASTED is a similar national French language association.

 http://www.aupelf-uref.org/
Association des responsables de bibliothèques et centres de documentation universitaires et de recherche d'expression rançaise au Canada (ABCDEF-Canada)

 http://www.bibalex.gov.eg/
 La bibliothèque d’Alexandrie en Égypte vient tout juste de renaître après 1 600 ans.
La Bibliotheca Alexandrina, comme elle le fût autrefois, redevient la
                            plus grande bibliothèque du monde, avec ses 70 000 m2, répartis sur
                            13 étages, dont sept sont ouverts au public. Elle pourrait contenir
                            jusqu’à cinq millions de volumes (elle n’en détient actuellement que
                            400 000) et accueillir 2 000 visiteurs à la fois. Décidément, le livre n’est
                            pas en voie d’extinction…
 The library of Alexandria, Egypt

Many local libraries subscribe to several online databases of
information, and make them available at home via their web sites
to  anyone with their library card. Some you'll recognize,
like the entire collection of Oxford English
Dictionaries. One of particular interest is
is EbscoHost, which puts online the entire contents
of several thousand journals both academic and
popular.

These databases show what the Web can deliver
if you're willing to pay subscription fees. But if
your library is paying the subscription, then to
you they're free sites!

While you're at your library,
ask if they're joining the LibraryLookup system:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/stories/2002/12/11/librarylookup.html
If you encounter an interesting book on the Web --
on Amazon.com or Chapters.com, for example -- you
feed the ISBN number into LibraryLookup and find
out if your local library has a copy.

This information is from
Network Nuggets, a free service of the Community
Learning Network Website (http://www.cln.org) and the
Open Learning Agency of British Columbia
(http://www.openschool.bc.ca).

NOTE: The internet addresses listed here do not reflect CPF's views or opinions. CPF is not responsible for the content of any of the internet addresses and does not endorse the provider of the internet  address site or any product it offers.

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