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.
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.
You can keep reading from home.
The Reading Agency's Winter Mini Challenge encourages children to keep reading through the winter holidays by rewarding them for reading and reviewing books. To take part in the Winter Mini Challenge online, children simply read any books (including eBooks and audiobooks) of their choice, then rate and review them.
The Winter Mini Challenge will begin on Tuesday 1 December and end on Friday 19 February.
Take part in the Winter Mini Challenge.
Use our free encyclopaedias to help with schoolwork or just find out new things. Login with your library card.
With your library card login to The Computer School for free training resources.
With our fun quizzes on Niche Academy.
Free, high-quality digital and numeracy courses to help build up your skills, progress in work and boost your job prospects from GOV.UK.
Get ready for your citizenship test. Login with your library card.
Practice for your driving theory test
Learn from Home with Lancashire Adult Learning.
You can watch video tutorials on Niche Academy for help using some of our digital library resources.
The video tutorials also include:
Search our Red Rose Collections archive of photographs and newspaper indexes.
With your library card you can look at current and historical newspapers.
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.
Here is some great music and theatre you can access at home from Lancashire libraries.
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, phones or internet TVs.
To see a preview and login, visit our Digital library
This Autumn programme features performances from professional writers, storytellers and actors and has been commissioned by Spot On Lancashire.
Spot On Shorts are designed to offer a ten minute respite from the news or the stress of lockdown. Wherever you are or whatever you’re doing, take ten minutes to enjoy a brand new performance made just for you.
Visit our Spot On page for further details.
Join in with a Christmas challenge and share your Lego builds with us.
Share with us by replying on Twitter or Facebook and use #LancsLegoClub and #LibrariesFromHome Please don’t include any people (unless they’re Lego people!)
This weekly creative challenge ran from April to September 2020 when libraries were closed.
Take a look at the some of the brilliant creations on Flickr.
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.