Online reference services
As a library member, you can use the barcode on your library membership card to access subscription-only online reference services. The following websites participate in the scheme:
- COBRA - a comprehensive, practical and continually updated information resource for anyone looking to start a business, write a business or marketing plan, or conduct research into a new market
- Key Note market research information - market research information (available in all Croydon libraries)
- Kompass UK - business listings for the UK
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - biographies of 56,000 men and women who shaped British history worldwide
- Oxford Reference Online - English and bilingual dictionaries, quotations, maps and illustrations, timelines, encyclopaedia, and subject reference guides
- Oxford Art Online - biographies of artists, images, definitions of art terms
- Oxford Music Online - biographies of musicians and composers, definitions of musical terms
- NewsUK - national and regional newspapers
- World Book - children's encyclopaedia
The online services below can ony be accessed from a Croydon Library computer:
- FAME company information - detailed contact information and financial data for 3.4 million registered companies in the UK and Ireland.
- Ancestry library edition - key records for family history research, including 1841-1901 census; birth, marriage and death records; street directories, telephone directories, school and military lists.
Contact Details
- Contact name
- Libraries
- Telephone
- 020 8726 6900
- Fax
- 020 8253 1004
- SMS
- Text "LIBRARY" to 60660
- Libraries@croydon.gov.uk
