Knowledge Ontario

Connect Ontario is currently partnered with BiblioCommons and BC Libraries to create and promote its next generation online public access catalogue.

[12] "Bibliocommons is attempting to transform online library catalogues into social discovery environments," said the Globe and Mail's Jennifer Hollet in 2009.

"[14] Learn Ontario (http://learnontario.ca[permanent dead link‍]) provides online tech tutorials for a wide range of software, applications, and social media tool sets.

The project's online portal (http://ourontario.ca) officially launched in 2007 as an access point to digitized documents, images and objects from Ontario's past.

The current list of content includes more than 50 academic and general-interest databases from Career Cruising, EBSCO, Rosen Publishing, and the Gale Group.

[21] Launched August 2010, the eResources Portal (http://eresources.knowledgeontario.ca) makes the e-resources available through Resource Ontario freely accessible to all Ontarians.

[24] The current board of directors members are: Sam Coghlan, CEO, Stratford Public Library Gladys Watson, Director, Learning Resource Centres, Centennial College Janice Beatty, Vice President, Human Resources and Student Services, Sault College Ken Hernden, Chief Librarian, Algoma University Sharon Brown, Chief Librarian, Wilfrid Laurier University John Stadnyk, Director of Education, Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board Philip Jeffrey, Manager of Library & Information Service, Hamilton Wentworth Catholic District School Board Shelagh Paterson, Executive Director, Ontario Library Association Peter Rogers, Chair Person (former Chair of Management Group) Michael Bator, CEO, Catholic Curriculum Corporation Jessica Kamphorst, Director of Advancement, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research In 2008, Wendy Newman, a Senior Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Toronto's iSchool,[25] released a report commissioned by the Ontario Ministry of Culture titled Third Generation Public Libraries.

It will require a stable financial foundation and a policy commitment to additional partnerships with education and post-secondary ministries, with which it shares a community of interest, to reach its full potential.