Now available at Holy Spirit High School!

Research homework assignments in half the time!

Why waste energy flipping through stacks of magazines or surfing the net aimlessly when the information you need can be found all on one great website – Bigchalk Library?

Bigchalk Library is a simple yet powerful online database that allows users to quickly answer research questions using a huge collection of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for Canadian students, and it can be accessed from school or at home. In minutes, students can search through hundreds of magazines, newspapers, maps, photos, encyclopedias and transcripts to find the information they need.

  • Canadian sources
  • Searches by Natural Language, Boolean, topic and subject to find information
  • Access to 1300+ full text sources including over 800 magazines, more than 190 newspapers, hundreds of reference works, 435 000 photos, 5500 maps, 200 000 TV, radio and government transcripts, 11 000 audio/video clips and 160 000 links to teacher-approved websites.
  • Students can email, cut and paste or print all documents
  • Access trusted resources including MacLean’s, L’actualité, TIME, World Book, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Canadian Press (CP), The Washington Post, 60 Minutes, the Toronto Star, and many other titles.

Just type in the topic you want to research and away you go. Holy Spirit subscribes to Bigchalk because it is fast, friendly, easy to use and is a great resource for Holy Spirit students.

To Access Bigchalk Library from home, you need to obtain the username and password for this website from the school librarian -- our licensing agreement does not allow us to publish it on the internet.  

http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/ce/canada/remote