Your library at home

Find out what's available for you and your family at home from our libraries. There's something for everyone. 

Your library at home

Find out what's available for you and your family at home from our libraries. There's something for everyone. 

Find out what's available for you and your family at home from our libraries. There's something for everyone. Check out all the resources on our Digital Library.

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Lancashire Libraries Academy hosts lots of videos and guides to help you make the most of your library at home and all the online services we have available. There are also some beginner's guides to aspects of the digital world and lots of quizzes to keep you amused.

Reading

You can keep reading from home.

The Reading Ramble podcast

 The Reading Ramble podcast

The Reading Ramble is a regular podcast brought to you by the library service.

Learning

Use our free encyclopaedias to help with schoolwork or just find out new things. Login with your library card. 

Digital skills 

With your library card login to The Computer School for free training resources.

Test your knowledge

With our fun quizzes on Niche Academy.

The Skills Toolkit

Free, high-quality digital and numeracy courses to help build up your skills, progress in work and boost your job prospects from GOV.UK.

Citizenship

Get ready for your citizenship test. Login with your library card.

Driving theory test

Practice for your driving theory test 

Video tutorials

You can watch video tutorials on Niche Academy for help using some of our digital library resources.

The video tutorials also include:

  • Social media - get started with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest or Snapchat
  • Digital skills -  how to use software like Excel, Word and Google Docs

Information

Family and local history

Search our Red Rose Collections archive of photographs and newspaper indexes.

Newspapers

With your library card you can look at current and historical newspapers.

Research

Use our trusted Digital Library subscription resources for your research. 

NewsBank for local, national and worldwide newspapers with an archive of between 5 and 25 years. 

Public Information Online for an archive of searchable Parliamentary and Official documents and is the only resource which will allow you to view so many Parliamentary publications in one place as PDFs.

Culture

Here is some great music and theatre you can access at home from Lancashire libraries.

Music

Medici TV

Medici TV features over 3,500 musical works filmed from the 1940’s through to the present day and 2,000 films including live concerts, documentaries, operas, ballets and master classes in High Definition.

You can watch all these for free in your browser on laptops, tablets, smartphones or internet TVs.

To see a preview and login, visit our Digital library

Spot On Shorts

Spot On Shorts are designed to offer you a ten minute respite. 

Visit our Spot On page for further details.

The Reading Ramble podcast 

The Reading Ramble is a regular podcast brought to you by the library service. The podcast will be hosted by the Cultural Development Team, and will feature interviews with authors and creatives, as well as input from colleagues across the library service. Listen to episodes of the Reading Ramble podcast.

Jigsaws and crosswords

Want a challenge? We've created jigsaws, crosswords, quizzes and word puzzles for you.

Complete a jigsaw from the Lancs Libraries collection on Jigsaw Planet

Try one of the SCART Club character jigsaws.

Can you answer all the questions in our book-related quizzes on Niche Academy?

Find the Harry Potter links in our puzzle on The Word Search.

Test your knowledge with these crosswords:

Lancashire libraries book crossword 1 on Crossword Labs

 

Business and jobs

Our Digital Library includes:
  • Help with finding a job and Universal Credit
  • Starting and running a business

Health and wellbeing

We have a collection of self-help books, lifestyle guides and personal accounts to help you learn about health issues and manage your own mental health and wellbeing.

Download Reading Well for Health books from BorrowBox.

Here are some validated and trusted websites to help you manage your mental health and well-being from our Good Web Guide on Diigo.