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The Internet and Online Subscriptions
Electronic sources of information and
the Internet, are becoming increasingly important as information providers.
The Internet is being used increasingly, by both
staff and customers, to answer a wide variety of questions. Internet
access is available to all library members free in ALL East Ayrshire Libraries. Non-library members must complete a Computer Booking Form and provide some form of identity.
East Ayrshire Libraries have subscriptions for a number of online services.
Most of these can be accessed directly from library computers (book via our online booking system) or from 24/7 from home. Where
passwords are required please see library staff for details. To access
the databases click on the link and follow the log in instructions.
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Britannica Junior
for Ages 5-12
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Britannica Student
for Ages 12-18 |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
for Ages 18+ |
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Looking for images from Scotland? Here's a great place to start. Scran is a charitable learning resource base with over 360,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media.
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The Oxford EDO definitive record on the development of the English language. It has definitions for over 600,000 words, quotations, etymological analysis and date charts.
Please add the prefix eayr when asked for your barcode. |
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Oxford DNB contains over 56,000 biographies of people from the last 2400 years of history. It includes explorers, politicians, royalty and scientists. It also has 10,000 portraits
Please add the prefix eayr when asked for your barcode. |
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Grove Art Online is an unprecedented art resource containing the full text of the 34 volume printed set, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. It has over 7,000 images and 21,000 biographies.
Please add the prefix eayr when asked for your barcode. |
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Grove Music Online is the ultimate authority on all aspects of music. It is made up of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove dictionary of Jazz, Oxford Companion to Music, New Grove Dictionary of American Music, Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
Please add the prefix eayr when asked for your barcode. |
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Oxford Reference Online is a vast collection of subject dictionaries and reference books offering over 1.4 million facts and definitions, many of them illustrated. From food and drink to science fiction the range of subjects covered is enormous!
Please add the prefix eayr when asked for your barcode. |
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The Accounts were written by all the Church of Scotland Parish Ministers of each Scottish Parish, with comments on the people, the environment, occupations and so on. They are of great historical value. Here you can access the first (1790s) and second (1830s/40s) Statistical Accounts of Scotland. |
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for contact details and opening hours at your local library
Bookings are strongly advised and are taken in half-hour blocks.
Internet access is free to all although we recommend children aged under 12 be
accompanied by an adult at the time of booking and for the duration of
the session. Children aged 12-16 can access the Internet unsupervised with parental permission. Anyone using the Internet
must agree to abide by the East Ayrshire's Acceptable
Use Policy.
East Ayrshire Council is not responsible for the content
of external sites
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