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- Bodleian Library - One of the world's oldest and most famous libraries at Oxford University.
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk
- British Film Institute National Library - The bfi National Library provides access to a large collection of documentation and information on film and television.
www.bfi.org.uk/nationallibrary
- British Jigsaw Puzzle Library - Lending library of hand made wooden jigsaw puzzles. 3,500 puzzles in current circulation. The club has been in existence since 1933.
www.britishjigsawpuzzlelibrary.co.uk
- British Library of Political and Economic Science - As well as being the working library of the London School of Economics (LSE), the library serves as a national collection of material for research on Social Sciences.
www.lse.ac.uk/blpes
- British Library Public Catalogue - A free service to allow you to find out what material is held in the major Reference and Document Supply collections of the British Library.
blpc.bl.uk
- British Library, Inside - Access to 10.5 million articles from 20,000 premier journals, 2.5 million conference papers, 10,000 new articles daily. Search and order directly over the Web and receive articles within two hours.
www.bl.uk/online/inside
- British Library, Portico - The British Library's Online Information Server. Includes: Blaise - bibliographic records provided by the major departments of the British Library, including Humanities and Social Sciences, the Science Reference and Information Service, Oriental and India Office Collections, Music, Maps and the Document Supply Centre. Gabriel - the information server for Europe's National Libraries and the full text of the Magna Carta.
minos.bl.uk
- COPAC - Unified access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
copac.ac.uk
- Familia - Index of family history resources held by public libraries in Britain and Ireland
www.familia.org.uk
- Library History Database: The British Isles to 1850 - Directory with summary information arranged geographically and by type of library.
www.r-alston.co.uk/contents.htm
- Living Words - Contains information about the British Library's activities for schools and colleges, and online activities and resources using archive material from the Library's collections.
www.education.bl.uk
- Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, National Library of Wales - Details of available documents, search the catalogues of the photographic, picture and prints collections.
www.llgc.org.uk
- National Art Library - Research and reference library based at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
www.nal.vam.ac.uk
- National Library of Scotland - A complete list of Library catalogues and indexes, current exhibitions and a digital library.
www.nls.uk
- National Marine Biological Library - Based in Plymouth, south-west England, the NMBL contains one of the world's major collections of literature on aquatic sciences and fisheries, and acts as a marine biological sciences resource for the UK.
www.pml.ac.uk/nmbl
- People's Network - Government site detailing the progress of the government's project to connect all public libraries to the Internet
www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk
- Poetry Library Online - World's largest public library devoted exclusively to modern poetry. Site includes a 'Lost Quotation Noticeboard' for when you can't remember what comes next.
www.poetrylibrary.org.uk
- Public Lending Right UK - Provides information on the PLR Scheme. It provides advice on eligibility, registration and payment from government for the free lending of their books by libraries.
www.plr.uk.com
- Re:source - Re:source provides strategic leadership, advocacy and advice to public libraries
www.resource.gov.uk
- Science Museum Library - Science Museum Library is a research library, open to the general public for reference. Our collections form a record of scientific, technological and medical change since the eighteenth century
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/library
- The UK Public Libraries Page - An exhaustive list of libraries, compiled by Sheila and Robert Harden with sites that make 'an effort to use the medium imaginatively' marked.
dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/ukpublib.html
- Working Class Movement Library - A collection of materials concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labor movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late eighteenth century.
www.wcml.org.uk
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