e-LIBRARY
Quick Links - login with your membership number
- Ancestry Family history records ( Due to licensing conditions, we regret that Ancestry is only available in the library, on the public PCs)
- COBRA - The complete business adviser for setting up and running your own business
- Issues Online - Current information on social issues
- KnowUK - Reference titles covering people, places and organisations in the UK
- NewsUK - Full text articles from 67 national & regional newspapers & magazines
- Oxford Art Online - All you need to know about the the visual arts worldwide.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - 50,000 people who have shaped the British past.
- Oxford English Dictionary Online (from Home) - Oxford English Dictionary Online (In the Library) Over half a million words from across the English-speaking world.
- Oxford Music Online - The world of music, including Grove Music
- Oxford Reference Online - Dictionary, reference and companion titles
- Safari Computer Books online. You can access it in the library from a Library PC or from a Home (or a non-Library PC). From your Home PC, please use your PIN as well as your library membership number to login from the Library Catalogue website. After you login the link to Safari will be visible.
- Stories from the Web - For children and young people with book reviews and recommended reads. Login with these details - Username: rbwm, password: rbwm07
- Thames Pilot - Images & documents on the history of River Thames
- Times Digital Archive - The Times newspaper covering the period 1785 to 1985
- Who's Who & Who Was Who - Influential people in British public life today as well as the the past.
- World Book - A general children's encyclopaedia
Ancestry (only available via Library public PCs)
Trace your family history using records from England, Scotland and Wales censuses from 1841 to 1901, birth, marriage and death records and UK parish and probate records.
COBRA - Complete Business Adviser
Information for setting up, running and managing a business - the qualifications, skills and personal attributes needed, the opportunities & market trends, risk factors, marketing, key legislation etc. Also provided are over 300 fact sheets covering management, marketing, office premises, personnel, raising and managing finance, starting a business, trading abroad, trading legally and understanding IT.
COBRA has got it all covered and it is up to date !
- What skills & qualifications do I need to be a animator?
- How do I develop a Marketing Plan?
- How do I write a Business Plan?
- What is the meaning of redundancy?
- I need a guide to using the Small Claims Court…
- How do I become a Dog Holiday Organiser?
- I need a guide about meeting the 2009 Tax deadlines
Issues Online
An invaluable website for those who need up-to-date information on social issues. A host of materials including factsheets, newspaper reports and features, articles from books, magazines and journals, extracts form Government reports and statistics, pressure-group literature, statistics, including tables and graphs..
KnowUK
Over 100 key reference titles covering information on people, places, organisations in the UK such as The Voluntary Agencies Directory , Which? Money Saving Handbook, Crockford's Clerical Directory, The Good Food Guide, Whitaker's Almanack, Willings Press Guide, and the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook.
NewsUK
Covering 67 current national and regional newspapers and magazines. Also included are in-depth background information on a range of contemporary issues - from criminal justice to global warming, and from gambling to vegetarianism.
Oxford Art Online
From mosaics to multi-media, from performance art to printmaking and from Tracey Ermin to J.M.W.Turner, everything you need to know about the visual arts worldwide.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The lives of 50,000 people from all around the world who have shaped the British past over the last 2400 years from the Greek explorer Pytheas (fourth century BC) to Princess Diana.
Oxford English Dictionary Online
The world's greatest dictionary with over half a million words from across the English-speaking world. It is also a crossword solvers' dream!
Different logins depending whether from your Home PC or from Library PCs.
Oxford Music Online
From Mozart to Madonna, punk rock to polka, panpipes to bagpipes, Oxford Music Online is about anything and everyone related to the world of music. It contains Grove Music Online, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Companion to Music and the The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Oxford Reference Online
130 subject dictionaries, plus a range of titles in the Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, offering coverage of everything from art to accountancy, politics to physics, and computing to classics.
Safari - Computer Books Online
An online collection of over 400 technical e-books from the world's top IT publishers including O'Reilly Media, Pearson Technology Group and Microsoft publications. The subjects covered include popular computing and electronics, ranging from desktop software to digital photography on setting up a wireless network at home, which iPod to choose, or learning more about home PCs or Macs. You can access Safari, from a Library PC . You can also access Safari from a Home or a non-Library PC by using PIN as well as your library membership number to login from our Catalogue. After you login, the link to Safari will be visible.
Why use Safari Books Online?
- You have instant access to the best IT books from the top IT publishers
- Access from home
- Titles for everyone - from beginner to professional
- Search the collection by keywords or browse titles like a book
- Every page is available in full text including diagrams and coding which can be copied and pasted
What's on Safari @ RBWM?
- Using Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Powerpoint etc
- Home entertainment & social networking - covering digital photography, YouTube, eBay, Twitter, Facebook etc
- Hardware - Google Android, iPOD, iPHONE, Palm Pre, fixing PCs etc
- Networking - Virtualization, VOIP security, Home Networks, Bluetooth, Skype, ZENworks etc
- Operating Systems - Windows 7, Windows Server, MS Active Directory, Vista, Mac, Ubuntu, Linux etc
- Databases - SQL, Data warehousing, Oracle, Lotus Notes, Filemaker Pro, MS Office.
- Graphics, Multimedia and Desktop Publishing - Flash, Adobe CS4, Dreamweaver, home music recording, website design etc
- Programming & software enginering - Java, CSS, VBA, ASP.NET, Ajax, XML, Crystal reports etc
This is what one of our users had to say after being introduced to Safari -Books Online at Maidenhead library :
" Safari online book service... It's a great service - I've already been through one book to bring me up-to-date on Excel and am starting another to teach me web design. I don't know how I would have been otherwise able to find such books so easily and and at so low a cost. "
Stories from the Web
An excellent website for children and young people aged 0-14 years. There are book reviews and recommended reads and a Special Gallery for artwork where children can also send in their stories, poems and even lyrics! Login with these details : Username: rbwm, password: rbwm07
Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
Amazing full-image online archive of every page published by The Times from 1785 to 1985. Every headline, article, illustration, advertisement & classified advertisement!
Thames Pilot
Images & documents on the history of the River Thames.
Who's Who & Who Was Who
Who's Who is the leading source of up-to-date information about over 32,000 influential people in British public life today. Who Was Who is an invaluable historical archive which collects together the entries of over 100,000 people, now deceased, which were included in previous editions of Who's Who.
World Book
An interactive searchable general encyclopedia with over 500 maps interactively linked to article content, 10,000 pictures, dictionary and more! Includes children's and student version.
Congratulations to the winners of the RBWM e-Library quiz 2009
COBRA - the Complete Business Adviser quiz
Lesley-Ann Gurney has won a copy of 'The UK Small Business Marketing Bible'
Safari Computer Books Online quiz
Shruti Arya has won a £50 Amazon voucher
Oxford Art & Music Online quiz
Damion Jones has won £30 worth of OUP books
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