Civic Centre Resource Library remains open during the parking lot reconstruction project. The parking lot can be accessed by driving around the fenced off areas. We apologize for this inconvenience.
An online audiobook library collection of streaming audiobooks for children and adults. Listen online.
Welcome to Cantook Station, your HQ for French e-books and e-audiobooks. All you need to start borrowing are your library card and your pin. Download the Aldiko app to access Cantook Station on all your devices! For more information, check out the helpful Startup Guides.
Bienvenue à Cantook Sation, votre référence pour les livres numériques et audios en français. Pour y accéder, vous aurez simplement besoin de votre carte de bibliothèque et de votre pin. En téléchargeant l’application Aldiko, vous aurez aussi accès à Cantook Station sur tous vos appareils! Pour plus d’information, consultez les Guides de démarrage.
Borrow free ebooks, audiobooks and comic books with your library card.
Note: Now with an additional 4,000+ junior and young adult titles migrated over from OverDrive.
How to use Hoopla
Instructions PDF (2523 KB)
Tutorial Video 
Check out and download eBooks and eAudiobooks using your library card.
Note: We have moved all junior and young adult eBooks and eAudiobooks over to Hoopla.
How to use Overdrive
Instructions PDF (1327 KB)
Tutorial Video 
TumbleBook Library offers online eBooks for kids! Not only are the books animated, but they are narrated too! Play games and puzzles! TumbleBook Library also offers some books in French and Spanish.
TeenBookCloud offers titles for middle school AND high school! This collection contains YA/Teen novels, classics, poetry, short stories, YA/Teen audiobooks, popular graphic novels, and world class educational videos from National Geographic.
With reading levels from grades 3-8, TumbleBookCloud Junior is a great option for adventurous young readers who wish to go beyond the picture book collection in TumbleBookLibrary!
Borrow free digital video with your library card. Gain access to Hoopla titles - available for instant streaming or temporarily download - and watch on your smartphone, tablet or computer.
How to use Hoopla
Instructions PDF (2523 KB)
Tutorial Video 
Kanopy is a video streaming service which offers over 30,000 critically acclaimed films. The selection ranges from new popular titles, classics, world cinema, art and indie as well as top rated documentaries. Your library card will get you started watching on your pc or mobile devices.
How to use Kanopy
Instructions PDF (827 KB)
NYTimes.com is a multi-platform news tool that provides full access to New York Times and International New York Times content, including breaking news, multimedia, reviews and opinion, blogs, videos and more. Also available in Chinese and Spanish.
Access from Library Computers or Library WI-FI
Instant access to 4000 newspapers from 100 countries in 60 languages! The newspapers appear in their original format and original languages. Newspapers are often available before they hit the newsstands in their respective countries. PressReader features archived issues up to two weeks, a magnifying lens / zoom option, bookmarks, and full-text search. Newspapers are organized by country, by language, and alphabetically.
Requirements: Download 5 free newspapers daily over the library's WiFi, then read them offline, anywhere you like.
Note: The Globe and Mail is only accessible from using PressReader mobile app in the library. Mobile users can install the PressReader app, visit the library and download The Globe and Mail to the app, and then they can read the newspaper at home or on the go.
OverDrive offers full colour, interactive digital magazines for your enjoyment. Browse from VPL's collection of popular titles with no holds, and no limit to the number of magazines you can download.
RBdigital is now acquired by OverDrive and the platform transfer has completed. Over 3,000 magazine titles are now available in OverDrive and the Libby app.
Borrow free music with your library card.
How to use Hoopla
Instructions PDF (2523 KB)
Tutorial Video 
An online music library containing over 1.6 million streaming audio tracks of classical music, jazz, world, and folk music - more than 100,000 albums' worth! Stream on your computer or on your mobile device with the Naxos Music Library (NML) app.
Get information about VPL's programs, services, announcements, author visits, Staff Picks and more delivered to your inbox!
Join the Online Fiction, Non-Fiction, Romance, or Business Books Clubs and start reading books in your email. Each day we'll send you a 5-minute portion of a book. If you'd like to finish a book, stop by the library and pick up a copy. Every week a new book is featured.
NextReads Newsletters deliver reading recommendations based on reader interests.
Vaughan Public Libraries' mobile app is available to download from Apple App Store and Google Play.
With VPL's mobile app, you will have the ability to:
How to download the VPL mobile app
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Read a book to your newborn, infant, and/or toddler. The goal is to have read 1,000 books (yes you can repeat books) before your precious one starts kindergarten.
Locate VPL locations within 10 km and provide free access to Gale online resources.
Aldiko Next is the app for Cantook Station. Read all your favourite French e-books and e-audiobooks on any devices! You can also import e-books you have downloaded from other services as well as access thousands of classics now in the public domain.
Aldiko Next est l’application par excellence pour les utilisateurs de Cantook Station. Retrouvez la meilleure sélection de livres numériques et audios en français sur tous vos appareils. Vous pouvez aussi utiliser l’application pour importer des livres numériques d’autres services en plus d’avoir accès à des milliers de classiques du domaine public.
Borrow free digital video, music eBooks, comic books and audiobooks from Vaughan Public Libraries and play them on your smartphone or tablet.
How to use Hoopla
Instructions PDF (2523 KB)
Tutorial Video 
Libby is the OverDrive app that makes it easier to borrow, read and download eBooks and audiobooks onto your mobile device.
How to use Libby
Instructions PDF (1327 KB)
Tutorial Video 
LinkedIn Learning (previously called Lynda.com) gives users free access to thousands of video tutorial courses with a focus on such areas as technology, software development, business skills, project management as well as creative skills like animation and video editing. The courses are taught by recognized industry experts who will guide you along in learning the skills you need for your personal and professional development.
How to use LinkedIn Learning
Instructions PDF (1989 KB)
Kanopy is a video streaming service which offers over 30,000 critically acclaimed films. The selection ranges from new popular titles, classics, world cinema, art and indie as well as top rated documentaries. Your library card will get you started watching on your pc or mobile devices.
How to use Kanopy
Instructions PDF (827 KB)
MagnusCards is a step-by-step visual guide app designed to assist individuals living with cognitive special needs to accomplish life skills independently such as using library services.
Listen to classical music and jazz. Access Naxos via Vaughan Public Libraries and sign up for a playlist login to use the app.
NYTimes.com is a multi-platform news tool that provides full access to New York Times and International New York Times content, including breaking news, multimedia, reviews and opinion, blogs, videos and more. Also available in Chinese and Spanish.
The legacy OverDrive app will be removed from the Apple App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Store in February 2022. If you're using the OverDrive app, you're encouraged to transition over to the new Libby app before the end of 2022.
Over 4000 full-content newspapers from 100 countries in 60 languages in just one app! Newspapers are often available before they hit the newsstands in their respective countries and archived issues are kept for up to two weeks.
Requirements: Download 5 free newspapers daily over the library's WiFi, then read them offline, anywhere you like.
Access the TumbleBook Library on your Android or iOS device using the official mobile app!
A fun and addictive way to learn a language on-the-go. The Transparent Language mobile app locks words and phrases into your memory, allowing you to recall them perfectly and remember them forever.
A Transparent Language account is required to use these apps. Create an account using your library card.
Borrow an iPad, explore the library-recommended apps, test out your productivity, even play a few games!
VPL offers circulating iPads that you can check out and take home to use. Check the iPads' availability information at VPL branches.
Loan Period: 14 Days
There are also kiosks at Civic Centre Resource Library, Pierre Berton Resource Library and Vellore Village Library where you can borrow an iPad to use in the library. You can also borrow an iPad at the Circulation Desk at Pleasant Ridge Library to use in the library. The loan period is 2 hours.
Check-out a GoPro, on us! VPL is now loaning out GoPro cameras to all VPL library card holders. Check one out today and see your world in a whole new way!
Loan Period: 14 Days
Each GoPro Kit Will Include:
Download the user manual VPL is now loaning out Garmin 6-Inch GPS Navigators. The units are preloaded with detailed maps of the U.S. and Canada. Customers can access the full instruction manual online.
Loan Period: 14 days
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VPL is now offering MiFi wireless hotspots for check-out. The MiFi is a device that allows you to connect to the Internet. It is portable so you can connect a mobile device almost wherever you go. However, please note that the MiFi may not be compatible with all wireless devices.
Any customer with a valid VPL library card may check out the MiFi. A borrowing agreement signed by an adult (18+ years) is required to check out the MiFi.
Loan Period: 14 days
Each MiFi Kit includes:
