Finding Information - Using your Library Online

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Using your Library Online A guide to The Online Reference Library ~ Finding Information

your Library is part of Lancashire County Council www. lancashire .gov.uk /libraries To find our website, go to: Or, alternatively.....

Use the County Council website search

or your favourite Search Engine

This is your Library ’s Home page This is your Library ’s Home page

This is your Library ’s Home page All your Library ’s Online features can be found in the left hand menu

This is your Library ’s Home page Our information resources are found in the Online Reference Library

The Online Reference Library provides access to quality information

The Online Reference Library is a real Library With more books, here’s a selection...

hundreds of titles all fully searchable

Our information resources can all be accessed from the Online Reference Library homepage

This header is the same on every page of the Lancashire County Council website. The search box is only for finding Council news and services

This header is the same on every page of the Lancashire County Council website. It’s not part of the Library site. Don’t use the search box to try and search the Online Reference Library.

Use the boxes in the centre to search or browse the “ OnRL ”

We've paid the subscription fee so you don't have to. Use them in your local library or at home.

Click on Sites to learn more about Premier Choice .

The left-hand menu also provides quick links to Premier Choice .

Premier Choice can be accessed directly on our Peoples’ Network PCs in all our Libraries (or your laptop in a growing number of libraries)

To access Premier Choice at home, you’ll need to log in to each resource Using your Library card number

The Website Gateway is a selection of nearly two thousand of the best sites from the internet

A search engine may produce huge numbers of results... But what it can’t tell you is which are the most relevant and highest quality.

Every website in the Website Gateway has been chosen and checked by Librarians.

To ensure that the site has useful, reliable and free information and is safe to visit.

The Website Gateway is arranged in useful categories

and subcategories

You can also find websites in the OnRL by using keywords

For help with school and homework, head for the Learning Place

Chosen by Librarians and endorsed by teachers, the Learning Place has curriculum compatible information sources.

Local and Community information also is available in the Online Reference Library

Click on Lancashire Lantern to go to our Community website

Community Information is an interactive directory of community, voluntary and self-help groups

and a What’s On guide

Image Archive , your Library ’s collection of historic photographs

plus many more local and historical resources

Health
Education
Transport
Disability
Social care
Local services
For up to date, reliable information on local services

Just ask a member of staff in any Lancashire Library or phone 0845 053 0000

Click on Library Details on the Libraries homepage To Find your nearest Lancashire Library...

To go straight to the Online Reference Library

type: www.l ancashire .gov.uk/onrl or search online for: onrl

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