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Information and Advice
BBC Lincolnshire News
Broadband in Lincolnshire
Join the broadband campaign across Lincolnshire
Join the broadband campaign across Lincolnshire Broadband connections are increasingly important in everyday life. Having access to fast broadband allows individuals and families to use opportunities that aren't otherwise possible.

Click here to register your interest in faster broadband speeds in Lincolnshire.

Online Resources
Lincs to the Past
Cultural Collections
Cultural Collections
Our new website allows you to browse and buy images from Lincolnshire's Cultural collections. You can also view exhibitions and learning resources.
Family History
Ancestry
Ancestry
Genealogy, Family Trees and Family History Records Online.
Find My Past
Find My Past
While within Lincolnshire Libraries & Archives you have free access to certain records through a partnership with findmypast including: UK BMDs (birth, marriage and death records), Maritime BMDs, Merchant Navy Records, England & Wales census records 1841-1911.
Newspapers, Magazines, Journals
Access to Research
Access to Research
Discover a world of published academic research from your local library.
UK Newsstand
Lincolnshire Libraries no longer subscribes to this resource.
The British Newspaper Archive
The British Newspaper Archive
You will need to register when you first access the British Newspaper Archive. When you subsequently log in this will allow access to the archive and to a personal My Research area. This allows you to keep track of your searches and bookmark items into folders plus add notes to aid your research.
Times Digital Archive 1785 - 2012
Times Digital Archive 1785 - 2012
Single user access, please log out when you finished your search, so other users can access this service.
Which? Online
Which? Online
Reviews and money saving advice on a wide range of products and services.

Access to this service is only available in the following libraries: Bourne, Boston, Gainsborough, Grantham, Horncastle, Lincoln, Louth, Mablethorpe, Skegness, Sleaford, Spalding, Stamford.

Please ask a member of staff to log you on to the service.

Digital Magazines
Digital Magazines
Free Digital Magazines - Choose from our wide range of popular magazines to download onto PC/Mac, smartphone or tablet.
Click here to Access e-Magazines https://www.rbdigital.com/lincolnshire/zinio
Reference
Please note that for these links you will need to enter LIN before your card number
Who's Who & and Who Was Who
WhoOver 35,000 autobiographical entries of noteworthy and influential people who impact British life.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica
For adults 18
Encyclopaedia Britannica Library Edition
Library members can now access to The world's most famous and respected multi-volume encyclopedia.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Junior Library Edition
Encyclopaedia Britannica Junior Library Edition
For ages 5 - 11
Encyclopaedia Britannica Student Library Edition
Encyclopaedia Britannica Student Library Edition
For ages 12 - 18
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online
Contains an extensive list of reference material including Science, Computing, Art, Medicine and much more.
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary Online.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
An illustrated collection of more than 50,000 biographies of people who have shaped Britain's past.
The John Johnson Collection
The John Johnson Collection
This collection provides access to thousands of items selected from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, offering unique insights into the changing nature of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

World War One Collection
Official documents relating to WW1 from 1914 to 1918.
Access for free from your local library only.
This special online WW1 collection from The Stationery Office
includes 100 official documents relating to: War cabinet reports
Command papers including: Treatment of British Prisoners of War in Germany; Armistice with Germany. Conditions (1918)
The Gazette dispatches including those on: The Battle of Ypres; The Battle of Jutland; The Battle of the Somme
Music
Naxos Music Library
Access to this service ended on 30th June
Music Online
Lincolnshire libraries no longer subscribe to Music Online
Learning
Go Citizen
Go Citizen
Is an online study resource for candidates preparing for the Life in the UK test or British citizenship test.
Theory Test Pro
Theory Test Pro
An online simulation of the UK's driving theory tests for all vehicle categories.
Issues Online
Issues Online
Hundreds of articles , facts and statistics on today's social issues.
E-Books & E-Audio
E-Books
E-Books
o E-Books can be downloaded to personal devices in libraries where Wi-Fi is available but not on library computers unless the e-Book has "Read Online" option
e-Audiobooks
e-Audiobooks
o E-Audiobooks can be downloaded to personal devices in libraries where Wi-Fi is available but not on library computers.
Adult Learning
Keep Growing
Keep Growing You can download the latest Grow brochure here or search the full list of courses by name or location, and there is the opportunity to book spaces online for selected courses. Find contact details for providers, read Learner stories and more.