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What would you like to do?
You can:
Browse our library catalogues
Browse our catalogue for physical books in our libraries.
You can:
- browse for books and add them to your reading lists
- renew books you have checked out
- request to reserve books from other libraries in our area
- sign up for our digital collection through BorrowBox
Digital catalogue on Borrowbox
Browse and borrow our digital catalogue of eAudiobooks, eBooks, eMagazines, and eNewspapers.
Use our online learning resources
Online resources
Including access to Oxford Reference, Access to Research, Go Citizen, Life in the UK, Learn Digital Skills online, Excel easy, and Digital Business Academy.
Britannica
Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, and videos.
Learn My Way
A website of free online courses for beginners, helping you develop digital skills to make the most of the online world. Get started with basic online skills.
Local studies
Ancestry
Discover your family history with the world’s largest genealogy website.
British Newspaper Archive
Explore millions of digitised newspaper pages brought to you by Find My Past and the British Library.
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
Search the digitised and indexed records of the newspaper 1860-2016 from the newspapers.com website.
Cumberland and Westmorland Herald Newspaper Archive
Find My Past
Trace your ancestry by researching extensive birth records, census data and more.
Watch theatre, film and TV
British Film Institute (BFI)
BFI Replay is a free digital archive from the British Film Institute, with videos and TV programs from the 1960s to 2010.
National Theatre Collection
brings the stage to life through access to high definition streamed video of world-class theatre productions and unique archival material.