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.

If you're not a library member join now. 

If you need to reset your PIN or update your details let us know.

Follow us on Twitter or Facebook to keep up to date with the latest news and virtual events like our weekly Lego Club and Twitter and Facebook Book Club.

You can keep reading from home.

• Access our free BorrowBox library of eBooks and eAudiobooks with your library card number and PIN.
• Access our free RBdigital library of eAudiobooks with your library card number and email address.
• While schools are closed you can access stories for children from Audible. 
• Until July 31 2020 uLIBRARY will be free to access for all libraries. Register at uLIBRARY now for free audiobooks. 

Summer Reading Challenge

The Summer Reading Challenge is an annual event aimed at 4-11 year olds, run by the Reading Agency. Find out more and sign up today.

Twitter and Facebook book club

Join our @lancspublib Twitter and @lancslibraries Facebook Lunch Break Book Club on Wednesday 15 July at 12 noon for an hour long discussion. We'll be discussing Last Bus to Woodstock, the first Inspector Morse mystery from Colin Dexter.

Download and listen from our BorrowBox library

Download and read from our BorrowBox library

Facebook family book club

A chance for all the family to share in their love of reading and great stories. Our next book club on Thursday 16 July. We will be discussing the Harry Potter series. We'll be having a quiz too.

Download from our BorrowBox library

Emoji booklist

Want a reading recommendation? Send us an Emoji on Twitter or Facebook and we'll recommend a book, comic or magazine. 

Use our free encyclopaedias to help with schoolwork or just find out new things. Login with your library card. 

Digital skills 

With your library card login to The Computer School for free training resources.

Test your knowledge

With our fun quizzes on Niche Academy.

The Skills Toolkit

Free, high-quality digital and numeracy courses to help build up your skills, progress in work and boost your job prospects from GOV.UK.

Citizenship

Get ready for your citizenship test. Login with your library card.

Driving theory test

Practice for your driving theory test 

Lancashire Adult Learning

Learn from Home with Lancashire Adult Learning. 

Search our Red Rose Collections archive of photographs and newspaper indexes.

Search Lancashire Archives on Ancestry – temporary home access (external link). You will need to register with Ancestry, providing a valid email address (click on 'Sign up today for free' when prompted). 

Newspapers

With your library card you can look at current and historical newspapers.

Research

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.

You can currently get the NewsGuard browser extension for free. Get trust ratings for 4,000+ news and information sites.

You can access these music and theatre resources from home with your library card number:

• Grove Music Online - The most trusted source to find out more about music, with thousands of composer biographies and articles about music styles and theory.
• Medici TV - Free access to performance films, documentaries and recorded live concerts of music, opera, and ballet.

Find out more about these resources and how to access them in our Digital Library.

We are working with Spot On Lancashire to continue to bring great art and stories to you through Spot On Stories. These ten-minute micro shows are filmed just for the people of Lancashire. Tuesday afternoons will be stories for children and families, and Thursday evenings will be something a little more grown-up. 

Read the Lancs Lockdown poetry on the Spot on Lancashire website.

You can also watch a performance every Thursday on National Theatre Live.

A themed weekly challenge for everyone. Share photos of your creations.

This week, Monday 6 July – Sunday 12 July, the theme is pirates.

The Lego Club will have a different theme each week and be available on social media and the website every Monday at 11am. Anyone can join in, no age restrictions.

What you need to know!

1. The work must be your own
2. Only send pictures of your Lego creations; please don’t include any people (unless they’re Lego people!)
3. There will be a theme each week so please try to stick to this – we’d love to hear your suggestions for future themes
4. Lego Club will take place every week – so keep an eye on our social media for further news!

Sharing your creations

To share your Lego creations with us, reply to our message on Facebook or Twitter with a picture:

• on Facebook, you can reply to our lancslibraries event, use #LancsLegoClub and #LibrariesFromHome
• on Twitter @lancspublib you can tag us with #LancsLegoClub and #LibrariesFromHome

You can email your creations to library.online@Lancashire.gov.uk

Take a look at the brilliant creations on Flickr.

Transport

Rainbows

Rockets

Dragons

Easter

• Help with finding a job and Universal Credit
• Business information

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.

• Reading Well for Mental Health
• Reading Well for Long Term Conditions
• Books on Prescription Dementia
• Shelf Help for Young People and Reading Well for Children