Welcome to the new celalibrary.ca!

During this first phase of our website launch patrons are able to:

  • Search CELA and Bookshare collections in one location
  • Read from 50 newspapers
  • Receive CDs and embossed braille materials through automatic title selection service
  • Download books in ZIP formats
  • Request (place holds on) CDs and embossed braille
  • Direct to Player downloads

Coming very soon: 

  • Enhanced search functions
  • More options to manage My Account 

 

Please read a letter about CELA website issues from our Executive Director Michael Ciccone.
Read our FAQ about the new CELA website and visit the Help section for tutorials and information about our services. Thank you for your patience and ongoing support while we work to update our website. 

News

Congratulations to the winner of the Canada Reads competition: By chance alone by Max Eisen and defended by Ziya Tong. By chance alone is an autobiography which details the rural Hungarian deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau, back-breaking slave labour in Auschwitz I, the infamous 'death march' of January 1945, the painful aftermath of liberation, and a journey of physical and psychological healing.

Read the 2019 finalists: Homes by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah, Brother by David Chariandy and Suzanne by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette.

Read previous Canada Reads winners: Forgiveness by Mark Sakamoto, winner in 2018, Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis, winner in 2017 and The Illegal by Lawrence Hill, winner in 2016.

Canada Reads defenders holding books

Easy Reader by Dolphin

EasyReader is a free accessible reading app designed for readers with dyslexia, low vision or blindness. Use it with our Direct to Player books! 

Download on the App store
Get it on Google Play
Easy Reader app running on a mobile device