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A-Z of Library Services

Our library locations and opening times

Join the library

Reserve, renew or return an item

Our Online Library

Using our libraries

Our mobile and home library services

Our services for children and young adults

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Winter Reading Challenge

A-Z of Library Services

Here is an A-Z list of all our services

A

Access to Research
Accessing library buildings and facilities
ACL Essex
Ancestry Institution Edition
Autism friendly libraries

B

BFI Replay
Book groups
Bookstart
BorrowBox
British Library Business and IP Centre
British Newspaper Archive
Business e-magazine - PressReader

C

Children with learning disabilities

Citizen Literacy
Computers and Wi-Fi

D

Dementia Friendly library service

Different ways of reading

Digital Skills Directory
Discovering Literature

Domestic Abuse Collection
Donations
Driving Theory Test Pro

E

Enquiry Form
Everyone's Literacy Area
Essex County Council Business Support
Essex Library Service News

Essex Record Office
Events

F

Facebook
Find My Past
Freegal Music+

G

GoCitizen
Gov.uk skills

Guardian and Observer Archive

H

Help Getting Online

Home Library Service

I

J

Join a book group
Join the library

K

L

Learn My Way
Library App
Library locations and opening times
Library of Sanctuary

LinkedIn Learning
Literacy Area
Livechat

Lives of the First World War

M

Met Police Anti-Fraud Guides

N

O

Online Craft Times

Online Library
Online Rhymetime
Online Storytime
Online story writing workshop
Our Reading Suggestions
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford English Dictionary Online

P

Parent information
Performing Arts
Photocopying and printing charges
PressReader

Q

Quick Family Tree App

R

Read and Count With Me Under a Tree

Reading Suggestions

Reading Well for Children
Reading Well for Teens
Reserve, renew or return a library item
Room bookings/hire

S

Social stories

Stock suggestions
Story of the month
Summer Reading Challenge
Support with homework

Sustainability Challenge

T

Transparent Language
Twitter

U

Ukraine Unlimited Learning

V

Volunteering with libraries
Vox Books

W

Who's Who and Who was Who

X

Y

Yoko Sato: Quick Family Tree

Young adults with learning disabilities
Your Family Tree

Z