Welcome to our latest free online service.  Would you like to be reminded when your library books are due and be alerted immediately if your items become overdue? With Library Elf you can. Click on the image to find out more.

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This new digital resource provides access to national, regional and local 19th century British newspapers. Available from any public library in Cumbria and to registered library members at home by entering your library card number when prompted.

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The largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media available from the British Library and includes more than 1,000 pamphlets, proclamations, newsbooks and newspapers from the period. Access is possible at any Cumbria Library People's Network PC or from any PC using the barcode from your Cumbria Library card.

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Published annually since 1849 and the first biographical book of its kind, is among the world’s most recognised and respected works of reference. It contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide. Approximately one thousand new entries are added every year.

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Cumbria Image Bank is a collection of digital images created using original material from Cumbria County Council Libraries and Archives Service. The website enables readers to view 12,000 images, dating back to the mid-eighteenth century, covering the whole of Cumbria. There are also images that members of the public have sent in - see section ‘sending images’.

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Comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Ongoing additions of new and updated articles, over 2,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and sophisticated search and navigation tools.

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Contains over 47,000 articles from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.

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Provides unparalleled access to the wealth of material contained in the acclaimed 20-volume Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and the 3 volumes of Additions. 

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For HOME USE of Oxford English Dictionary please click here.

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This Premium Collection enhances the 100+ books in the Core Collection with an expanding range of key titles in the acclaimed Oxford Companions series plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. This means an additional 140,000 entries, including 50,000 longer, in-depth, signed entries with bibliographies.

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An illustrated collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of Britain's past.

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An online service developed to provide national and regional news combining the most popular British newspaper titles in one database.

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For as little as 50p, family history hunters who visit any Cumbrian library will be able to search name-indexed census information from 1841 to 1901 which would normally cost £70 to access through a private subscription.

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Freely available, the NHS Clinical Knowledge Summaries  (formerly PRODIGY) are a reliable source of evidence-based information and practical 'know how' about the common conditions managed in primary care.
CKS provides quick answers to real-life questions that arise in the consultation, linking to detailed answers that clearly outline the evidence on which they are based..

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