Library online services
Free online information services from Wiltshire Libraries
Free online information services from Wiltshire Libraries The following online services are available free of charge to members of Wiltshire Libraries. Use them from your home or office computer or from one of our in-library computers*. Please have your library card ready when using these services and enter your 10 digit card number without spaces.
Alphabetical list of titles
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- *Ancestry Library Edition 4000 family history databases –in-library use only
- 19th Century British Library Newspapers - 48 national and regional newspapers representing 19th century Britain
- Business Information - (COBRA) – all you need to know to run a small business
- Contemporary Fashion - encyclopaedia of fashion houses and designers
- CyberLibrary - websites recommended by librarians to help you find good quality, safe sites.
- Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage - details of every duke, marquess, viscount, earl and baron.
- Dictionary of National Biography - 50,000 lives – the men and women who shaped Britain
- Enquire - national online enquiry service staffed by librarians
- Issues Online - homework topic sheets for contemporary social issues. Key stages 3 and 4
- *John Johnson Collection - ephemera from the Bodleian Library - in-library use only
- Wiltshire Clubs and Organisations Directory - contact details for over 8,000 local clubs and societies
- Life in the UK Test - (GoCitizen) an online study resource for candidates preparing for the Life in the UK Test (you will need an email address to sign up for this)
- Magazines Online - search the text of the following magazine titles - Apollo, Bookseller, Caterer and Hotelkeeper, Community Care, Computer Weekly, Design Week, Farmers Weekly, Geographical, History Today, IT Week, Management Today, Marketing, Money Management, New Internationalist, New Scientist and New Statesman. and others.
- Naxos Music Library - streamed classical music. Also includes some jazz, blues and new age.
- Naxos Spoken Word Library- streamed novels, plays and poetry.
- Newspapers Online - (NewsUK) Search for newspapers articles from of national and local papers
- List of titles included in Newspapers online
- Oxford Art Online over 26 million words on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford Music Online - the essential music resource - from Bach to the Blues, from Pachebel to Presley
- Reference Books Online- search 130 reference books from Oxford University Press
- TheoryTest Pro – an online simulation of the UK's driving theory test (you will need an email address to sign up for this)
- Times Digital Archive - 200 years of world history through the pages of the Times newspaper from 1785
- Who's Who and Who Was Who short biographies of influential people dead and alive
- Wiltshire Community History - our award winning local history site
* Title only available in-library
Subject list of titles
| Subject | Online service |
|---|---|
| Art | Oxford Art Online |
| Biographies | Dictionary of National Biography |
| Biographies | Who's Who and Who Was Who |
| Business | Business Information (COBRA) |
| Enquiries | Enquire |
| Family history | Ancestry – in-library use only |
| Fashion | Contemporary Fashion |
| Genealogy | Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage |
| History | John Johnson Collection - in-library use only |
| Driving |
TheoryTest Pro –an online simulation of the UK's driving theory test (you will need an email address to sign up for this) |
| History | Times Digital Archive |
| Internet sites | CyberLibrary |
| Language | Oxford English Dictionary |
| Literature | Naxos Spoken Word Library |
| Music | Naxos Music Library |
| Music | Oxford Music Online |
| Life in the UK Test - (GoCitizen) an online study resource for candidates preparing for the Life in the UK Test (you will need an email address to sign up for this) | |
| Newspapers and magazines | Magazines Online |
| Newspapers and magazines | Newspapers Online |
| Newspapers and magazines | Times Digital Archive |
| Reference books | Reference Books Online |
| Social issues | Issues Online |
| Wiltshire history | Wiltshire Community History |
| Wiltshire organisations | Wiltshire Clubs and Organisations Directory |
Newspapers included in Newspapers Online
Newspapers Online (NewsUK) provides online access to articles from national newspapers as well as a selection of regional papers and three weekly magazines. If you wish to search for an article in a particular newspaper or periodical please follow the appropriate link below or search across all newspapers.
National Newspapers
- Daily Express (from January 2nd 1995)
- Daily Mail (from March 27th 1998)
- Daily Mirror (from January 1st 1996)
- Daily Telegraph (from November 1st 2000)
- Express on Sunday (from January 2nd 1995)
- Financial Times (from May 31st 1996)
- Guardian (from August 18th 1992)
- Independent (from November 30th November)
- Independent on Sunday (from January 1st 1995)
- London Evening Standard (from March 27th 1998)
- Mail on Sunday (from March 29th 1998)
- News of the World (from January 7th 1996)
- Observer (from December 24th 1995)
- Sun (from January 1st 1996)
- Sunday Business (from June 18th 2000)
- Sunday Mirror (from January 7th 1996)
- Sunday People (from September 2nd 2001)
- Sunday Telegraph (from November 5th 2002)
- Sunday Times (from March 17th 1996)
- Times (from April 18th 1992)
Local Newspapers
- Bath Chronicle (from 9th May 2007)
- Bristol Evening Post (from May 9th 2007)
- Citizen (Gloucestershire) (from May 9th 2007)
- Gloucestershire Echo (from May 9th 2007)
- Western Daily Press (from May 9th 2007)
Magazines
- Economist (from January 5th 1991)
- New Statesman (from January 6th 1995)
- Spectator (from September 14th 1996)
It's not all online!
All libraries in Wiltshire also have a range of reference books to help customers with their information enquiries as well as helpful staff who are trained in using both books and the Internet.
Contact Details
Email: libraryenquiries@wiltshire.gov.uk
Telephone: Your Local Library
Postal Address:
Your Local Library
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Last updated: 14 August 2009