This week we are highlighting a few of the new online databases that patrons can access online from within the library or from home. Check them out!

This week's book reviews, by Connie Forst, as submitted for publication in the Tofield Mercury.

Hobbies and Crafts Reference Centre

This online resource provides comprehensive full text content for many of the most popular hobbies, crafts and recreation activities today. Including full text for more than 740 magazines and books, as well as access to more than 720 videos and 140 hobby reports, this database offers detailed "how-to" instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Subject areas include arts & crafts; collecting; games & electronics; model building; home & leisure; needlework; outdoors & nature; and scrapbooking & papercraft. The database also features extensive information on over 140 topics. Hobbies & Crafts Reference Center provides full text from the leading hobby and craft magazines, including Bead & Button, Birder's World, Creative Knitting, FineScale Modeler, PaperWorks, Scrapbooking, Quilter's World, and many more.  
     

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index

This is the premier resource for access to articles about gardens and plants. Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design & history, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design & history. Indexed and abstracted are more than 430 core titles, the majority of which are published in English.
 

Novelist K-8

If you are looking for ways to introduce both teachers and students to new books, and if you want to encourage independent reading and help students think more about why a particular story appeals to them -- you should look at NoveList® K-8! NoveList K-8 contains enhanced subject access for over 60,000 fiction titles aimed at the K-8 population. Full-text reviews from sources like School Library Journal and Booklist are available for many titles. 
 

Tell Me More - Auralog Language software

Have you always wanted to learn a new language? Tell Me More provides you with comprehensive training modules to help you learn French, Spanish, German, Italian, Spanish - Latin American and American English. To begin you must create an account and then you will be able to access the numerous languages available.. 
 

To check out these resources go directly to www.tracpac.ab.ca and click on the e-resources page.