Directory
Bodleian Library
One of the world's oldest and most famous libraries at Oxford University.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.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
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
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
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
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
http://minos.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
Familia
Index of family history resources held by public libraries in Britain and Ireland
http://www.familia.org.uk
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
National Art Library
Research and reference library based at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
http://www.nal.vam.ac.uk
National Library of Scotland
Provides a complete list of Library catalogues and indexes, current exhibitions and a digital library.
http://www.nls.uk
National Library of Wales
The library is one of the UK's copyright libraries, and also holds collections of records of interest to the family historian. The site includes databases to the library's book collection and part of the manuscript collection, and several on-line exhibiti
http://www.llgc.org.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
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
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
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
Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries
Strategic Government agency working with and for museums, archives and libraries in the UK. Site provides information on the agency's activities and outputs.
http://www.resource.gov.uk
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
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
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