Online services

This page gives you the links to, and a little bit of information about, our many online resources.

Do not forget you can check what we have available by looking in our online catalogue. You can also log in to your own account, renew what you currently have out, and reserve items that you would like to borrow.  You can also borrow eBooks using our eBooks subscription service, and eAudio books using our eAudio subscription - contact us for more information.

Please see the rules you need to follow when you use one of our computers at Acceptable use of Library computers.rev.pdf

If you have a query why not use the national information service Ask Cymru-Wales? 

Free E-books and e-Audio books

You can not only borrow books and audio stock from us in person, but can also download electronic books and audio materials for use on your PC, iphone, ipad etc. Use the two links below to access these.

Visit www.wales.libraryebooks.co.uk

Using this site you can access hundreds of e-books, free to download. You just need to put in your library membership number (the eight digits without the 'P' and yourv PIN - ask staff if you have not yet got yours. You can borrow, or reserve, up to four books at any one time, and can choose how long you borrow any book for - between 1 day and 21 days. Please note - the e-books are not in a format suitable for a Kindle.

Visit   Oneclickdigital  

Using this site you can access hundreds of e-audiobooks, free to download. You can borrow up to ten books at any one time, and you choose how long you borrow any book for - between 1 day and 21 days. If you finish a book before it is due back, you can easily return it. No waiting list, no queues, no concern about the weather or getting to the library!

Free Online Information Library

We provide a "virtual" reference library to all library members with home or library Internet access. Simply click on the links below and enter your unique membership number to use the search facilities.

Oxford Reference online

Gives you access to well over 100 of the world-renowned encyclopedias and dictionarties published by Oxford University Press, in one place. Easy to search, with articles pulled together for to browse. 

Visit Oxford Reference Online Site

Oxford Music Online

Contains the contents of Oxford dictionary of Music, Grove Music online and Oxford companion to music, so that you can search all these at once, and compare the results easily

Visit Oxford Music Online Site

Oxford English Dictionary online

Contains the entire Oxford English dictionary for you - easy to use and browse 24/7  

Visit the Oxford English Dictionary Site

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Contains over 58 thousand biograhpies of people - an invaluable resource for students, or just someone wishing to find out more about people who shaped the British Isles and beyond.

Visit Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Site

News Bank

Contains thousands of full-text articles from more than 20 Welsh and over 350 U.K. daily and weekly newspapers

Visit News Bank Site

Grove Music

Leading online resource for music research since its inception in 2001

Grove Art

Today's foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art.

Visit Grove Art Site

We also have resources such as www.ancestrylibrary.com  and www.findmypast.co.uk  which are only available within the library - ask any member of staff for more information, or for help to start using these if you need it.

Please see the rules you need to follow when you use one of our computers at Acceptable use of Library computers.rev.pdf