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Get free access to over 20,000 titles through the London Libraries Consortium. 

• Download e-books and e-audio
• Discover Africa's Stories
• Download children's e-books and e-audio
• Download teen e-books and e-audio

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E-books can also be found on Borrowbox.

Hear your favourite authors and listen to the latest bestsellers and classics through the London Libraries Consortium.

• Borrowbox
• Ulverscroft Digital

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Access thousands of e-magazines and newspapers in 100’s of different languages.

• Browse over 2,500 newspapers and magazines in over 100 languages
• Download best-selling e-magazines for free from home
• Help accessing e-magazines 

• Practice your driving theory test online
• Practice Citizenship online
• Alison -  extensive catalogue of educational classes
  

• Homework help for children with Britannica
• Access to research - a range of academic resources (available only in libraries)
• Access to Ancestry to search your family records (available only in libraries)
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Oxford Dictionaries (including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Arabic)
• Oxford Reference
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Oxford Art Online
• Oxford Music Online
• Oxford Bibliographies
• Oxford Biblical studies
• Oxford Islamic Studies
• Oxford Handbooks
• New Oxford Shakespeare
• Who’s Who
• Very Short Introductions
• Mental Health and Support Service for Children and Young People