Information about online library resources in North Lincolnshire.
E-Books and E-Audio
Download our free e-books and e-audio books to your computer, compatible e reader, smartphone or tablet.
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Online library resources
Download our free e-books and e-audio books to your computer, compatible e reader, smartphone or tablet.
You can borrow up to 10 titles at any one time, for 21 days. The book will then automatically disappear from your device, unless it is renewed.
Find the Borrowbox app in your app store. Visit Borrowbox to see the great selection of titles on offer and sign in in with your barcoded library card number and PIN.
Please contact library.enquiries@northlincs.gov.uk if you do not know your PIN.
Please note: You cannot read Borrowbox e-books on an Amazon Kindle e- Reader.
If you need to join the library to use Borrowbox, you can do so at any of our libraries.
Help and support: Visit the ‘help’ pages on Borrowbox for support.
Download our free e-audio books to your computer, compatible e reader, smartphone or tablet. You can borrow up to five titles at any one time.
uLibrary currently offers a small selection of e-audio books which are all available for immediate download, no waiting list or queues.
Find the uLibrary app in your app store; simply download and log in with your library card number and PIN.
Alternatively uLibrary can be enjoyed on a laptop or PC for those that do not have smartphone or tablet. Visit uLibrary to see the selection of available titles and sign in with your library card number and PIN.
If you have any problems logging in or need any further information, please contact library.enquiries@northlincs.gov.uk.
Newspapers and magazines
Read over 7,000 newspapers and magazines – many with audio, translate and caption features, and some with back copies available.
Visit Newsbank and sign in with your barcoded library card number, unless you are in one of our libraries.
The Newsbank collection includes local newspapers such as the Scunthorpe Telegraph, Grimsby Telegraph and Hull Daily Mail.
Visit Press Reader or download the Press Reader app and follow the steps to sign in.
Click on ‘Library or group’ and ‘North Lincolnshire Libraries’ from the drop-down menu (tip: use the search box to help with this). Then sign in with your barcoded library card number and PIN, unless you are in one of our libraries.
Family and local history
Research your family history and explore newspaper archives and collections.
Explore a newspaper archive from the period of World War One, including the Lincolnshire Star and the Epworth Bells.
Visit the North Lincolnshire Library Newspaper Archive to search the collection.
An unusual digitised collection of historic printed ephemera – including posters, handbills, pamphlets and adverts from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
Visit The John Johnson collection and sign in under ‘Public library users’ with your barcoded library card number. Select ‘North Lincolnshire Library & Information Services’ from the drop-down menu.
If you need to join the library to use these resources, please contact library.enquiries@northlincs.gov.uk.
Help and support: Visit the ‘help’ pages on individual websites for support.
Research English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Cornish and immigrant surnames which currently have over 100 bearers, and those that had over 20 bearers according to the 1881 census.
Visit The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and sign in with your barcoded library card number. Then select ‘North Lincolnshire Libraries’.
National biographies
Explore the lives of people from the past.
Explore the lives of over 50,000 people from the past 2,400 years of British history. Includes portrait illustrations.
Visit the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
Find out more about the life of a nation, as told by its people in more than 19,000 biographies of significant and influential figures from American history.
Visit the American National Biography and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
Browse thousands of potted biographies of notable people, past and present.
Visit Who’s Who and Who Was Who and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
If you need to join the library to use these resources, please contact library.enquiries@northlincs.gov.uk
Help and support: Visit the ‘help’ pages on individual websites for support.
Dictionaries and spelling
Consult the world’s most authoritative dictionaries and access online courses to help with grammar and spelling.
Consult the world’s most authoritative English dictionary, containing over 600,000 words and 2.5 million quotes from a wide range of sources.
Visit the Oxford English Dictionary and sign in with your barcoded library card number under ‘North Lincolnshire Libraries’.
Thousands of words, phrases, and translations in many languages, along with essential resources to support your learning and to help with translation.
Visit Oxford Dictionaries and sign in with your barcoded library card number, then select ‘North Lincolnshire Libraries’
Access a full online course to help with grammar and spelling, starting with your personal spelling pathway.
Visit Spellzone and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
If you need to join the library to use these resources, please contact library.enquiries@northlincs.gov.uk
Help and support: Visit the ‘help’ pages on individual websites for support.
General reference, the arts and literature
Access a wide range of research and reference materials.
Access the range of material you would expect from this well-known encyclopaedia, across three resources.
Visit:
and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
Over 400 major works of literature from the respected World Classics imprint, now available online. Encompassing African, American, European and British prose and poetry from the 18th to 20th centuries, each edition comes with an extensive introduction and suggested further reading.
Visit Oxford World Classics and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
The authoritative critical edition of Shakespeare’s complete works, in both modern and original spelling, with introductions and extensive notes. This resource also contains a companion volume dealing with issues surrounding the Shakespeare Authorship controversy.
Visit Oxford Scholarly Editions and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
With over 136,000 records, this is the most comprehensive record of Shakespeare scholarship – an essential companion to anyone researching the man, the plays or early modern England. This resource can only be accessed within library premises.
Visit World Shakespeare Bibliography and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
With over 20,000 articles, 2,500 images, 200 maps, and access to 700 primary sources, this is a vital resource for understanding the experience of people of colour from ancient times to the present. Includes specially-curated “Focus On…” features dealing with art, politics, education, science and much more.
Visit African American Studies Centre and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
Fast, high quality information via one million entries over 25 broad subject categories, including some language dictionaries and the Encyclopaedia of British Literature. Includes illustrations.
Visit Oxford Reference and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
The ultimate authority on the visual and plastic arts, incorporating Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Access more than 200,000 articles and 19,000 images spanning worldwide artistic endeavour from prehistory to the present.
Visit Oxford Art and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
The ultimate authority on Western classical, jazz, blues, folk and world music, including over 52,000 biographies and articles on everything from audio engineering and music journalism to ethnomusicology and performance practice.
Visit Oxford Music and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
Watch twenty of the National Theatre’s acclaimed live-streamed recent performances, from classics such as The Crucible and Othello to new plays by Zadie Smith and Philip Pullman. Includes subtitles, and extra content such as cast Q&As. This resource (collection three only) can only be access within library premises.
Visit Drama Online Library and sign in with your barcoded library card number.
Online training
Learn My Way – free online courses for beginners. Develop and improve your own digital skills.
Topics covered using computers, mobile devices, online basics, email and office applications,
Contact
library.enquiries@northlincs.gov.uk
01724 860161
Scunthorpe Central, Carlton Street, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN15 6TX