Free Online Resources
This area of the website provides you with access to a number of external online services.
Ancestry Library| provides you with free access (from within one of our 3 libraries) to the website which enables you to search many useful sources worldwide for your family history.
Books to Help| gives information about this local scheme, which helps people access self-help books that provide information about a wide range of family issues, including bullying, divorce, anger, parenting, potty training, sleep, worry and many others.
CANS Advice Notes| gives you access to authoritative quality information on 450 areas of current law. Examples of coverage are: consumer protection, employment, family law, housing and social security.
European Sources Online|
Information about the institutions and activities of the European Union; the countries of Europe and their regions; international organisations in Europe; and issues of importance to European citizens and stakeholders. (Accessible via library pc only).
Grove Art Online|
Everything imaginable about visual art worldwide. Pictures and paintings, ceramics and sculpture, fashion and furniture, graphic design and photography. With over 5,000 images.
Grove Music Online|
From Mozart to Madonna, Punk to polka, panpipes to bagpipes. All styles of music from all periods of history. Hundreds of illustrations, sound files, and information on composers, conductors, lyricists, and performers.
Life in Great Britain|
This online course contains all the text from 'Life in the United Kingdom: a journey into citizenship'. It will enable you to prepare in an enjoyable way for the 'Life in the United Kingdom Test'.
Newsbank| gives you access to thousands of full-text articles from more than 20 Welsh and 350 UK daily and weekly newspapers. All are updated daily for current news, and are also archived to enable you to trace news subjects historically.
Oxford Reference Online|
A vast reference library of scholarly resources also containing much illustrative material. (If you are accessing this service from anywhere other than your library, you will be asked to key in your library card number prefixed by TORF).
Sequels Online|
Sequels online is an online book resource that allows users to search for book information.
The Oxford English Dictionary Online|
The monumental and definitive dictionary of the English Language for the English-speaking world. (If you are accessing this service from anywhere other than your library, you will be asked to key in your library card number prefixed by TORF).
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online|
The authoritative biographical source for all those people who have shaped British history. (If you are accessing this service from anywhere other than your library, you will be asked to key in your library card number prefixed by TORF).
Who else writes like this ...?|
The aim of this website is to encourage readers to try the works of new authors and to open up to them the wealth of good reading that is available in their local public library and bookshop.