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Hi

Isn't it annoying when you want to know a quick fact, but the library is closed?  Or you need to do some research, but you know that you are stuck at work all day and so won't be able to get to the library?  Well have you ever thought of letting the library come to you - well OK, it's not exactly a home-visit, but we do have lots of resources that are just a mouseclick away, and all you need is an Internet connection and your library card.

Oxford English Dictionary

• the most authoritative dictionary of English in the world
• contains over 600,000 words and uses 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources - from classic literature to pop

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

• explores the lives of over 55,000 people who have shaped the British past over the last 2,400 years and contains over 10,000 portrait illustrations
• entries range from Julius Caesar and Boudicca - to Princess Diana and Sid Vicious

Oxford Music Online

• the ultimate authority on all aspects of music worldwide
• covers classical to hip hop and from baroque to blues
• over 45,000 specially commissioned articles by 6,000 contributors on people and places, instruments and techniques, genres and styles

Oxford Art Online

• the ultimate authority on all aspects of the visual arts worldwide - from pre-history to the present day with over 2,500 illustrations
• more than 21,000 biographies of artists, architects, sculptors, patrons, , theorists etc

Oxford Reference Online

• fast access to top-quality information on every subject - from art to zoology
• in-depth content offered by titles from the Oxford Companions series
• contains English, French, German, Spanish and Italian dictionaries

All of these resources are available to all North Lincolnshire Library members using any computer, anywhere, at any time of the day or night  (and just in case you're reading this while being a member of another library, most public library authorities offer the same access, but you'll have to follow the links from their webpages).

Trust me, the resources are fab, especially when you have a sudden burning desire to know the proper meaning of a really random work - like gorm!

Why not check them out and see what you can find!

Online Reading Room

Until next time

Suzanne