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Libraries
Do it all online:
- Find public Libraries, join a library
- Search for books, reserve books, renew library books
Useful links:
- Hampshire Libraries
- Dorset Libraries
- UK Public Libraries site to find your nearest library
- DirectGov provide useful options to find a public library, join a library, search, reserve and renew library books
- Children: Don't miss your chance for free books for children 18-30 months from your library - part of the SureStart - BookStart programme.
Local and Family History:
- Hampshire Records Office
- Hampshire family history: - A site with a huge number of links to virtually all Records Offices and Archives
- FamilySearch: - Genealogy research
- Family History: - Official Government site
- BBC Family History: Beeb site!
Reference and Information:
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: - What is it? Who's in it? Who wrote it? Who should use it?
- Oxford English Dictionary: - 600,000 words and 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources
- Britannica Online Academic Edition - the world's best known encyclopedia. Ages 18+
- Britannica Junior - for ages 5-11
- Britannica Student for ages 12-18
- Newsbank - full newspaper articles from a huge range of local and national newspapers.