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Online Reading Room
The Reading Room brings together a variety of materials that you can browse through at your leisure and is available 24/7.
If you are not using a North Lincolnshire library computer you will also need to type in your library card number.
- You can explore the lives of over 55,000 people who have shaped the British past over the last 2,400 years
- You can read entries that range from Julius Caesar and Boudicca - to Princess Diana and Sid Vicious
- It contains over 10,000 portrait illustrations.
If you are using a North Lincolnshire Library computer, follow the above link and then click on 'enter OED online'.
If you are not using a North Lincolnshire library computer, follow the above link and you will need to enter your library card number.
- This is the most authoritative dictionary of English in the world
- It contains over 600,000 words and includes 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources - from classic literature to pop songs.
If you are not using a North Lincolnshire library computer you'll need to enter your library card number.
- You can get fast access to top-quality information on every subject - from art to zoology
- There are over one million entries across 25 subjects
- It contains English, French, German, Spanish and Italian dictionaries
- There are over 12,000 illustrations including 6,000 in full colour.
If you are not using a North Lincolnshire library computer you will need to click on "Library barcode user login" and enter your library card number.
- This is the ultimate authority on all aspects of the visual arts worldwide - from pre-history to the present day
- It contains more than 21,000 biographies of artists, architects, sculptors, patrons, dealers, theorists etc
- There are over 2,500 illustrations
- It also covers the decorative arts - including ceramics, jewellery, interior design, glass, and furniture.
If you are not using a North Lincolnshire library computer you will need to click on "library barcode user login" and enter your library card number.
- This is the ultimate authority on all aspects of music worldwide
- It covers classical to hip hop and from baroque to blues
- It includes over 45,000 specially commissioned articles by 6,000 contributors on people and places, instruments and techniques, genres and styles
- There are over 20,000 biographies from Mozart to Yo-Yo Ma, Diaghilev to P T Barnum
- It also includes 3-D interactive images of musical instruments.
If you are not using a North Lincolnshire library computer you'll need to enter your library card number.
- The Encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of literature from the Abbey Theatre to Israel Zangwill, covering the entire history of literature in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in the major literary languages (Anglo-Saxon, English, Welsh, Scots, Irish, and Latin).
- It includes substantial accounts of individual authors and detailed histories of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions, whose impact upon the writing or the reading of literature was significant.
Don't yet have a library card? Don't worry. Joining the library is easy and it's free.
In the meantime you can explore the other areas of the reading room for resources available without a library card.
- Journal rack
Links to some of the free fulltext journal available online
- Magazine table
A range of titles and links to magazines and other resources on the web
- Newspaper rack
Selections of all the usual newspapers and one or two which may be new to you
- Reference shelf
Our online quick reference desk.
If you have any suggestions for things you would like to see featured in the Reading Room please email your ideas to us at ref.library@northlincs.gov.uk.
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We want to hear from you.
- Have you used the resources in the reading room?
- Have you used them for homework, research, or just for fun?
- Did you find what you were looking for?
- Did you find other things that you weren’t looking for?
- Have you recommended the resources to a friend?
- Is there anything that we can do to help you get more from the Oxford online resources?
Email us your views and experiences at ref.library@northlincs.gov.uk, putting "Online Reading Room" in the subject line. |