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Online Information Resources
Check out these resources at any Trafford Library or at home using your library card. When accessing these resources from home you will be asked for your borrower card number which you need to enter in full including the TRP before the numbers.
Have you got an interest in art or art history?
Oxford Art Online includes thousands of biographies and subject entries for styles as diverse as cave paintings to the work of modern artists such as Damian Hirst. The colour images, detailed entries and regional timelines provide a valuable resource to anyone interested in art or art history, regardless of whether you are studying at university or doing research for a school project.
Get started now by visiting Oxford Art Online. You'll get instant access at your local library or use it from home by entering your library membership number. Not a member? Visit your local library or join online.
We also subscribe to Oxford Reference Online so you get access to a range of reference books on art, architecture and photography including The Oxford Companion to the Photograph and A Dictionary of Modern Design. See the full range in the Art and Architecture section of Oxford Reference Online.
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- Encyclopaedia Britannica for ages 18+
- Britannica Junior for ages 5-11
- Britannica Student for ages 12-18
- Oxford Reference Online provides access to a vast online library of English and bilingual dictionaries, maps and reference books.
A biography of a famous person in history?
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - an illustrated database of 50,000 biographies of people who have shaped the history of the British Isles.
- Who's Who contains over 33,000 short biographies of noteworthy and influential people who are still alive. Who Was Who provides over 100.000 entries from the archives of Who's Who dating back to 1898. It provides a valuable insight into those people who have helped shape events and history across the world.
An artist or painting?
- Oxford Art Online - access to the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Oxford Companion to Western Art including 21,000 biographies of artists and over 5,000 images.
A composer or a piece of music?
- Oxford Music Online - access to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and the New Grove Dictionaries of Opera and Jazz.
The meaning of a word, phrase or crossword clue?
- Oxford English Dictionary - the online version of the "accepted authority on the meaning, history and pronunciation of the English language". If accessing at home please use this link. You will need to enter your borrower barcode including the TRP before the number.
A company or business information?
- Fame - contains detailed information on public and private companies in the UK and Ireland. It is the leading UK company information solution, and highly acclaimed by both users and reviewers. This service is available at Altrincham Library only.
- Ask About Business brings together a wide range of business information. Use if you are a pre-start or new business, jobseeker, consumer, inventor or business student.
- Cobra is a comprehensive and practical resource for anyone looking to start a new business, write a business plan or conduct market research. Users will need to enter their borrower number, including the TRP, when logging into the service.
A newspaper article?
- NewsUK - NewsUK is an online service developed to provide national and regional news, combining the most popular British newspaper titles in one database. If accessing outside Trafford Libraries, you will need to enter your borrower barcode including TRP in capitals.
An old newspaper article?
- Times Digital - with The Times Digital Archive, researchers now have an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context. Every complete page of every issue of The Times (London) from 1785 to 1985, every headline, article and image. Each front page, editorial, birth and death notice, advertisement and classified ad that appeared within the pages of The Times (London) is easily accessible from what is a complete virtual chronicle of history for this period. This service is available at Local Studies and Altrincham Library only.
- The Guardian from 1821-2003 and The Observer from 1791-2003. Search by keyword for ancestors, companies and events or browse complete digitised editions including images, adverts, obituaries and announcements. If accessing at home, you will need to enter your borrower barcode including the TRP in capitals.
Who to contact
Email: libraries@trafford.gov.uk
Telephone: 0161 912 5924
This page was last reviewed on 18 December 2009
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