Search engines
Email
Renew, reserve and search for items plus create and check your account with our online catalogue
Online resources reference resources and online facilities
Ask Libraries enquiry service 0845 026 7972 Need an answer? Ask a librarian!
Nottinghamshire clubs and groups using our Community Directory

Search engines

• Google www.google.co.uk
• Yahoo http://uk.yahoo.com
• Dogpile www.dogpile.co.uk
• My Guide www.myguide.gov.uk

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Email accounts

• My Guide www.myguide.gov.uk
• Hotmail www.hotmail.com
• Yahoo https://login.yahoo.com
• Gmail http://mail.google.com

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Free Online subscriptions

Access instructions

Local and family history

• Ancestry www.ancestrylibrary.com (NB. Only accessible in a library not from home)
• 19th Century British Library Newspapers
• John Johnson collection of printed ephemera offers unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• Our Nottinghamshire; History, memories, photos and comments about the county of Nottinghamshire. Find out more or add your memories.

Business and Legal

• Citizens Advice Notes (CANS); English Welsh and Scottish Legislation explained www.cans.org.uk/index.php?id=144
• Newsbank - a collection of UK newspapers http://infoweb.newsbank.com
• Kompass - online business directory www.kompass.com
• Contact Ask Libraries for access to other information from MINT marketing database or Icroner Health and Safety.

Others

• Sequelsonline: the on-line book resource www.sequelsonline.co.uk/nli.aspx
• Driving theory test http://nottscc.theorytestpro.co.uk
• Life in Britain www.220soft.net/nottinghamshire

General Reference

• Encyclopedia Britannica junior (5 - 11)
• Encyclopedia Britannica student (12 - 18)
• Encyclopedia Britannica general (all ages)
• Oxford Reference Online- a collection of 240 reference titles
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - 50,000 biographies
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Music Online
• Oxford Art Online

Accessing online resources from your home PC

All the online subscriptions are available at home except Ancestry, which is only available in a library.

To search John Johnson collection of printed ephemera

1. click on the John Johnson collection of printed ephemera link
2. In the Library Card Number box type D (must be a capital) and the first 8 digits from your library card.
3. drop down the box and choose Nottinghamshire Libraries
4. click on Select

To search Citizens Advice Notes (CANS)

1. click on the Citizens Advice Notes (CANS) link
2. drop down the Library Authority box and choose Nottinghamshire Libraries
3. in the Library Card Number box type D and the first 8 digits from your library card
4. click on Sign In

To search Sequelsonline; the online book resource

1. click on the Sequelsonline link
2. in the login box type D and the first 8 digits from your library card
3. click on Log in

To search Oxford Reference Online (ORO)

1. click on the ORO link
2. in the box for library card login type D and the first 8 digits from your library card
3. click on Login or Go

To search Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB)

1. click on the ODNB link
2. in the top right hand corner click on subscribers enter here
3. type D and the first 8 digits from your library card

To search the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online

1. click on the OED link
2. click on the enter OED online icon

To search Oxford dictionaries of music or art online

1. click on the Oxford music link or click on the Oxford art link
2. go to the library barcode user login
3. type D and the first 8 digits from your library card

To search Kompass

1. click on the Kompass link
2. in the login box type D and the first 8 digits from your library card
3. click on Go

To search Newsbank

1. click on the Newsbank link
2. in the login box type D and the first 8 digits from your library card
3. click on Go

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Library catalogue

search, renew and reserve books, music and film

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Ask Libraries enquiry service

If you have a question that needs answering, from a contact name for your local scout group or a business enquiry, to a quiz question, or even help with your homework, then Ask Libraries is here to help.

Our specially trained staff will find the answer to your questions and if they can't then they will know who to ask!

Tel: 0845 026 7972 (landline) 07979 704 125 (mobile)

e-mail: asklibraries@nottscc.gov.uk

Online chat (When our libraries are closed your enquiry will be answered by a librarian elsewhere in the country or in the USA)

Opening Hours
Monday	9.00 - 5.00
Tuesday	9.00 - 5.00
Wednesday	9.00 - 5.00
Thursday	9.00 - 5.00
Friday	9.00 - 5.00
Saturday	CLOSED

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Updated 1 February 2011