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This category contains 16 sites:

• Bodleian Library - One of the world's oldest and most famous libraries at Oxford University.
• British Jigsaw Puzzle Library - Lending library of hand made wooden jigsaw puzzles. 3,500 puzzles in current circulation. The club has been in existence since 1933.
• British Library of Political and Economic Science - As well as being the working library of the London School of Economics (LSE), the library serves as a national collection of material for research on Social Sciences.
• British Library Public Catalogue - A free service to allow you to find out what material is held in the major Reference and Document Supply collections of the British Library.
• British Library, Inside - Access to 10.5 million articles from 20,000 premier journals, 2.5 million conference papers, 10,000 new articles daily. Search and order directly over the Web and receive articles within two hours.
• British Library, Portico - The British Library's Online Information Server. Includes: Blaise - bibliographic records provided by the major departments of the British Library, including Humanities and Social Sciences, the Science Reference and Information Service, Oriental and India
• COPAC - Unified access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
• EARL: The Consortium for Public Library Networking - Established in 1995 to develop the role of public libraries in providing library and information services over the network.
• Living Words - Contains information about the British Library's activities for schools and colleges, and online activities and resources using archive material from the Library's collections.
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, National Library of Wales - Details of available documents, search the catalogues of the photographic, picture and prints collections.
• National Art Library - Research and reference library based at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
• National Library of Scotland - A complete list of Library catalogues and indexes, current exhibitions and a digital library.
• National Marine Biological Library - Based in Plymouth, south-west England, the NMBL contains one of the world's major collections of literature on aquatic sciences and fisheries, and acts as a marine biological sciences resource for the UK.
• Poetry Library Online - World's largest public library devoted exclusively to modern poetry. Site includes a 'Lost Quotation Noticeboard' for when you can't remember what comes next.
• Public Lending Right UK - Provides information on the PLR Scheme. It provides advice on eligibility, registration and payment from government for the free lending of their books by libraries.
• The UK Public Libraries Page - An exhaustive list of libraries, compiled by Sheila and Robert Harden with sites that make 'an effort to use the medium imaginatively' marked.