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Search for books and videos held at community libraries and the Baker Lake Headquarters/Distribution Centre by searching our Web catalogue, Nunavut Libraries Online. Here you can also search for items held by the following Nunavut Libraries:
If you find a book you like that is not in your community library, or if your community does not have a library, go here to learn about our borrower by mail program.
Catalogue URL: http://www.nunavutlibcat.nu.ca
New Arrivals
These are a few of the titles recently purchased by NPLS Headquarters and destined for public library shelves across Nunavut. If one of these titles interests you but is not coming your way, check out our borrower by mail program.
- New DVD Features
- 1. Arctic Mission: the great adventure. Five Films. A scientific and filmmaking expedition through the fragile but treacherous Arctic ice.This breathtakingly beautiful environment has become the first vistim of global warming.
- 2. Breakin' in: the making of a hip hop dancer. This documentary follows Linda, Michelle and Tracy - three young Black women as they compete for roles in hip hop music videos. A national film board of Canada Production
- 3. If the weather permits. Elisapie Isaac, a young filmmaker born in Nunavik, decides to return to her roots on this breathtaking land. A national film board of Canada Production
- 4. Silent messengers. With acclaimed ethnogeographer and photographer Norman Hallendy and well-known sculptor/actor Natar Ungalaq; the filmakers traverse the open and sometimes forbidding terrain around Cape Dorset and Igloolik. A national film board of Canada Production
- 5. Innuuvunga: I am Inuk, I am alive. Through an initiative of the National Film Board, these eight students have been selected to document this pivotal year of their lives. A national film board of Canada Production
- 6. Being Caribou. Environmentalist Leanne Allison and wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer follow a herd of 120,000 caribou on foot, across 1,500 kilometres of rugged Arctic tundra. The husband-and-wife team wants to raise awareness of threats to the caribou's survival.A national film board of Canada Production
- Copies are being sent to:
- All community library locations will receive a copy
- Canadian Alamanac and Directory 2006
- Instant access to over 45,000 facts and figures about Canada. It's a directory, a client prospect list, a statistical handbook and an invaluable quick referece aid all roled into one desk-sized volume.
- Copies are being sent to:
- - May Hakongak Community Library, Cambridge Bay
- - Iqaluit Centennial Library, Iqaluit
- - Baker Lake HQ
- The Usborne Children's World Atlas
- Modern world atlas with 60 pages of maps; with an introduction to each continent.
- All community library locations will receive a copy
- The Kids Book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
- Gives an overview of the seven main cultural groups and looks at how Aborginal peoples were affected by settlers
- All community library locations will receive a copy
- Ituku's Christmas Journey
- An enchanting tail about a little Inuit boy who explores the heart and soul of the Christmas story
- Copies are being sent to:
- - Ikpiarjuk Public Library, Arctic Bay
- - May Hakongak Community Library, Cambridge Bay
- - Clyde River Community Library, Clyde River
- - Iqaluit Centennial Library, Iqaluit
- - Thomas Tapatai Library, Baker Lake