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Welcome to the People's Network
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You and your family and friends can attend a range of reading, learning, craft and cultural events and activities in libraries and museums. Most are free, some have a small charge and some need to be booked. Search our What's On.
Register to vote
Are you on the electoral register? Do you have photographic ID?
For the Local Elections in May 2024 and for future elections, voters will need to show an accepted form of photographic identification (photo ID) to vote at a polling station. If youdon't have photo ID library staff can help you apply for a Voter Authority Certificate.
Apply for a Voter Authority Certificate for free
National Databank
Lancashire libraries are helping tackle digital poverty as part of the National Databank scheme. The National Databank provides free SIM cards from Virgin Media O2, Vodafone and Three. Check if you are eligible.
Find out more about social broadband tariffs.
1921 Census
Ask a member of staff if you need more information.
Cost of Living
Find out what help is available for households in Lancashire.
Check our Cost of Living Good Web Guide
Ask a member of staff if you need more information.
Healthy Start
The Healthy Start scheme may help and support to buy food and milk if you are more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4.
Apply for a Healthy Start card
Access your email
Learn about video conferencing
Computers and Wi-Fi
We have upgraded all our computers to Windows 10. Flatbed scanners will be available at every library. Ask staff if you wish to use a scanner.
Find out more about using library computers, personal laptops and devices in libraries and about access to free Wi-Fi.
Using Office
Our new Windows 10 computers have Libre Office installed. This has most of the same features and functions as MS Office such as word processing and spreadsheets, the main difference that you will notice is that features are differently named and may be found in different locations. A brief guide to Libre Office is available (PDF 454kb).
Alternatively you can use cloud services such as Google Docs or Office Online to work with documents, but you will need a Google or Windows Live (Hotmail, Outlook) account to do so.
Saving your work
You will not be able to store or save work permanently on this PC as each PC is cleaned at the end of the session to ensure protection of users' privacy and security. Options for storage include:
- Pen drive
- Cloud storage – find out more from this Digital Unite guide or this easy to follow tutorial