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Resource	Description
Ancestry	trace your family history using census, birth, marriage & death records (only available from library computers).
Encyclopaedia Britannica Children (5-11) Students (12-18) Adults	safe and trustworthy information.
Enquire 24-hour reference service	connect to someone who is trained to help. Simply enter your details, query and press Connect.
European Sources Online	focuses on the European Union, the countries of Europe and on issues of concern to citizens and stakeholders (only available from library computers).
Go Citizen	practise questions for the Life in the UK test or British citizenship test, using official study materials licensed from the Home Office.
Issues Online	social issues articles; news & views, key facts & statistics, lobby group links, newspaper archives, reference sites &, research guides.
McGraw Hill Encyclopaedia of Science & Technology	information on science and technology.
Newsstand	UK newspapers (national & local), indexed for access to news stories, bibliographies, company, people & product information.
Overdrive	free download of 700 Audiobooks & 1,000 eBooks. Use your membership card number and 4-digit PIN to sign in to Overdrive. Not currently compatible with Kindles.
Oxford Art Online	discover art and art forms, geography, people, styles and cultures, time periods, themes and subjects.
Oxford Biblical Studies Home log-in Library log-in	provides authoritative information on the study of the Bible and biblical history.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography	provides accurate, concise and readable articles on people who have shaped the British past.
Oxford English Dictionary Online Home log-in Library log-in	provides the meaning, history and pronunciation of 600,000 words across the English-speaking world.
Oxford Islamic Studies Home log-in Library log-in	provides reference content and commentary about global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics & culture.
Oxford Music Online	offers one location to find articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments, notation, forms, genres & individual works.
Oxford Reference Online	access the collection of subject dictionaries with quotations, maps, illustrations & timelines.
Safari Books Online Home log-in Library log-in	SAFARI provides on screen access to hundreds of computer and technology books. Use your membership card number & 4-digit PIN; click Safari logo on screen left.
Thames Pilot	details the history of the River Thames from source to sea.
Theory Test Pro	an online simulation of the UK's driving theory test, containing all the official test questions licensed from the DSA.
Times Digital Archive	search for articles by title, author or subject combination on every page from 1785-2007
Who's Who & Who Was Who	contains over 33,000 short biographies of noteworthy and influential individuals worldwide. Also 100,000 entries from the archives dating back to 1898.