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Adult Education
Education and courses
Education and courses
We deliver a number of day and evening courses across Liverpool in libraries, children's centres, schools and community venues.
Online Resources

Our Free virtual library contains hundreds of information and reference books, maps, illustrations and interesting facts to help you with homework or just for fun.

Art & music
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library
Listen and learn about a whole range of music, from Louis Armstrong, Mozart, traditional Chinese music and many more as well as a section especially for children.
Business
COBRA
COBRA
Complete Business Reference Advisor (COBRA) a business encyclopaedia covering all aspects of starting and running a business.
Biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Explore the lives of over 55,000 people who have shaped the British past over the last 2,400 years.
Driving Test Theory
TheoryTest Pro
TheoryTest Pro
Official theory questions from the Driving Standards Agency, hazard perception video simulations, online version of the Official Highway Code.
Newspapers
Times Digital Archive
Times Digital Archive
Searchable archive of The Times newspaper dating from 1785 onwards.
Reference
Encyclopaedia Britannica (Library Edition)
Encyclopaedia Britannica (Library Edition)
The world's best known encyclopaedia. Ages 18 .
Britannica Junior Edition
Britannica Junior Edition
For ages 5 - 11.
Britannica Student Edition
Britannica Student Edition
For ages 12 - 18.
Oxford Reference Online: All
Oxford Reference Online: All
Over 1 million entries across 25 subjects, including an expanding range of Oxford Companions and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary
Evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources.
In library only resources
Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com
Provides access to the 1841 to 1901 UK censuses and contains more than 4 billion names. A simple search using an ancestor's christian and surname can produce some interesting results, which can be viewed, printed or emailed.
Find My Past
Find My Past
Family history research online. Create your family tree using birth, marriage and death indexes, census returns and many more historical UK family history services.
Which?
Which?
No advertising, no bias, no hidden agenda. Just expert advice from an independent source.