Smaller libraries (community libraries and key libraries) have a core collection which includes

Online resources
All libraries have computers with free access to the Internet for searching.  Our Internet Gateway contains hundreds of recommended, quality websites 

We also subscribe to a selection of online resources on your behalf.  These have been specially selected to add breadth to the sometimes limited resources on the shelves 

Telephone directories
A copy of the local white and yellow pages

Newspapers
Most take:
- the local weekly paper
- the jobs edition of the local daily paper

Maps
A relevant local OS map, a local street map and a general atlas

Reference books
- one volume encyclopedia
- local business directory
- local postcode directory
- government leaflets
- health, benefits, inland revenue etc
- bus, coach and rail timetables
- access to all UK phone book information
- road atlases
- dictionaries
- world atlas
- which magazine from the Consumer Association
- health information
- literature and history guides
- science dictionaries

Please note that you cannot borrow reference books