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Be the first to read and review teen books before they’re released!

TAG stands for Teen Advisory Group – a place where you can share your ideas about the library’s teen programs, services and collections and earn community service hours!

Registration is now closed.

NOTE: this online resource will be discontinued as of December 31, 2024. A print copy is available at the Central library.

Online version of the 1999 resource that describes the nation’s 119 different ethnic groups: their process of migration, arrival and settlement, community life, intergroup relations, language and culture.

Complete online text of the Encyclopedia Judaica. Provides a comprehensive picture of all aspects of Jewish life and knowledge up to the present day.

Multimedia encyclopedia with world-renowned entries on thousands of topics. *Also suitable for research at the elementary and high school levels.

A collection of hundreds of full-text titles across a variety of subjects. It includes: literary classics & criticism, fiction, drama, poetry, and business & economics and more.

Find out which magazines and newspapers you can access online through Vancouver Public Library's subscription databases.

Offers complete online access to all volumes of the Dictionary of Literary Biography. 

Brief biographies of notable Canadians from the years 1000 to 1930.

Public information from civil court records for Provincial, Supreme and Appeal court files in British Columbia.