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Bodleian Library
One of the world's oldest and most famous libraries at Oxford University.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/
British Library, Portico
The British Library's Online Information Server. Includes: Blaise - bibliographic records provided by the major departments of the British Library, including Humanities and Social Sciences, the Science Reference and Information Service, Oriental and India Office Collections, Music, Maps and the Document Supply Centre. Gabriel - the information server for Europe's National Libraries and the full text of the Magna Carta.
http://minos.bl.uk/
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, National Library of Wales
Details of available documents, search the catalogues of the photographic, picture and prints collections.
http://www.llgc.org.uk/
Public Lending Right UK
Provides information on the PLR Scheme. It provides advice on eligibility, registration and payment from government for the free lending of their books by libraries.
http://www.plr.uk.com/
National Library of Scotland
A complete list of Library catalogues and indexes, current exhibitions and a digital library.
http://www.nls.uk/
British Library, Inside
Access to 10.5 million articles from 20,000 premier journals, 2.5 million conference papers, 10,000 new articles daily. Search and order directly over the Web and receive articles within two hours.
http://www.bl.uk/online/inside/
British Library of Political and Economic Science
As well as being the working library of the London School of Economics (LSE), the library serves as a national collection of material for research on Social Sciences.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/blpes/
Poetry Library Online
World's largest public library devoted exclusively to modern poetry. Site includes a 'Lost Quotation Noticeboard' for when you can't remember what comes next.
http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/
National Art Library
Research and reference library based at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
http://www.nal.vam.ac.uk/
British Library Public Catalogue
A free service to allow you to find out what material is held in the major Reference and Document Supply collections of the British Library.
http://blpc.bl.uk/
COPAC
Unified access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
http://copac.ac.uk/
National Marine Biological Library
Based in Plymouth, south-west England, the NMBL contains one of the world's major collections of literature on aquatic sciences and fisheries, and acts as a marine biological sciences resource for the UK.
http://www.pml.ac.uk/nmbl/
British Jigsaw Puzzle Library
Lending library of hand made wooden jigsaw puzzles. 3,500 puzzles in current circulation. The club has been in existence since 1933.
http://www.britishjigsawpuzzlelibrary.co.uk/
The UK Public Libraries Page
An exhaustive list of libraries, compiled by Sheila and Robert Harden with sites that make 'an effort to use the medium imaginatively' marked.
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/ukpublib.html
Library History Database: The British Isles to 1850
Directory with summary information arranged geographically and by type of library.
http://www.r-alston.co.uk/contents.htm
Familia
Index of family history resources held by public libraries in Britain and Ireland
http://www.familia.org.uk/
Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)
The national (UK) development agency working for and on behalf of museums, libraries and archives and advising government on policy and priorities for the sector.
http://www.resource.gov.uk/
People's Network
Government site detailing the progress of the government's project to connect all public libraries to the Internet
http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/
British Film Institute National Library
The bfi National Library provides access to a large collection of documentation and information on film and television.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/nationallibrary/
Science Museum Library
Science Museum Library is a research library, open to the general public for reference. Our collections form a record of scientific, technological and medical change since the eighteenth century
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/library/
Working Class Movement Library
A collection of materials concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labor movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late eighteenth century.
http://www.wcml.org.uk/
Inner Temple Library
A law library for Inner Temple members and for barrister members of the other Inns of Court. Includes a history of the Inner Temple.
http://www.innertemplelibrary.org.uk/
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