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Library Databases

Our databases have lots of information from trusted sources that’s typically not available through the Internet. You’ll need your library card to log into some of them.

Points to the Past – Searchable primary source material: maps, photos, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, portraits, sermons, poems, and more. For research, teaching and learning.
14sx140 Royal BC Museum Learning Portal – What do you want to learn about BC? Start with a subject, story, time or place.
Valley Heritage Title Valley Heritage Bibliography – While not a database, this is a link to an extensive list of local history titles.
Bulkley Valley Museum Collections Online – This site contains records for over 8,000 of our archival and museum holdings, including 5,000 digitized historic photographs.
AABC Archivist’s Toolkit – This archival resource offers access to a wide range of on-line and published resources for archivists and archives workers at all levels.
Indidgenous Canada logo Indigenous Canada is a FREE Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) created by the University of Alberta, Faculty of Native Studies that looks at key issues facing Indigenous peoples today from a historical and critical perspective, highlighting national and local Indigenous-settler relations.

IIIF Collections: Manuscripts & Rare Books – This website provides an experimental cross-collections search and discovery environment for IIIF-compliant manuscripts and rare books dated before 1800.