Online Information Library

We offer a range of free online information services which you can access in our libraries and from home.

If you are at home you will need your library card barcode number to type into each website with no spaces in between figures.

If you are using Oxford websites or Who's Who you will need to type NSC before your card number.

We subscribe to the following services which you can access in the library and at home through the following links:

• Ancestry - Research family history with census records from 1841 until 1901. Only available in our libraries
• Clearasmud - Details of hundreds of clubs, societies and community groups in North Somerset
• CyberLibrary - Contains hundreds of links to useful websites
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online - Online version of the famous encyclopedia with a Junior version for five to 11-year-olds, a Student version and Adult version for over 18s
• Enquire - 24-hour instant question and answer service
• Newsbank - Database of local and national newspapers from 1989 to the current day
• Times Digital Archive (1785 - 1985) - Contains more than 7 million articles from one of the world's oldest national newspapers
• Oxford Art Online - Information about and images of art and artists from Grove Art (type NSC before your card number)
• Oxford Music Online - Information about music and musicians including musical samples from Grove music (type NSC before your card number)
• Oxford Reference Online - Online access to the world's most trusted reference collection and more than 100 language and subject dictionaries and encyclopedia (type NSC before your card number)
• Oxford English Dictionary Online - At Home version - Complete Oxford English Dictionary online for access from home using library card number (type NSC before your card number)
• Oxford English Dictionary Online - In Library version - Complete Oxford English Dictionary online for access in our libraries
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Contains 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond (type NSC before your card number)
• Who's Who and Who was Who - Details of people of influence today and back to 1897. (type NSC before your card number)

You can also sign up, search, reserve and renew books, CDs and DVDs online if you have your library card number and PIN handy via the LibrariesWest website.

If you have any problems using any of these links and websites contact Weston Library on 01934 426 010.