A -Z of Services

Useful Learning Resources

N.B. The links beneath are available within West Dunbartonshire Council's network: community and library learning centres, for example. If the facility is available for remote and home access too, this is indicated.

KnowUK Logo

Here you will find a fantastic amount of information about the UK, locally and nationally. You can search the latest edition of Who's Who, Whitaker's Almanack, and many more. You can even search for events in the coming year. Try it!

Click here to access the KnowUK website.

To access KnowUK from home or elsewhere outside the Council's network you have to be a West Dunbartonshire Library member. Be sure to have your library card to hand in case you can't remember the barcode number.

Click here to access KnowUK from outside the West Dunbartonshire Council Network.

NewsUK Logo

NewsUK is an online service developed to provide national and regional news, combining the most popular British newspaper titles in one database. NewsUK is the ideal tool to keep up-to-date with day-to-day information, looking through various established newspapers and magazines giving the user an array of views and opinions on one story line or subject. NewsUK contains 67 newspapers and magazines falling under three categories.

Click here to access the NewsUK website.

Britannica Online Library Edition Banner

Updated for 2007, the award-winning Britannica Online is faster, easier, and more efficient. A more user-friendly interface provides better organized and richer results. Additional features include news headlines and a research organizer, making Encyclopædia Britannica Online the the comprehensive resource your users need. Britannica Online Library Edition is now available with 3 age specific sections:

Encyclopædia Britannica

Encyclopædia Britannica for age group 18 and over.

Student Edition

Britannica Student for age group - 12 to 18.

Junior Edition

Britannica Junior for age group - 5 to 11.

Statistical Accounts of Scotland Logo

Access here the first (1790s) and second (1830s/40s) Statistical Accounts of Scotland: descriptions written by all the Church of Scotland Parish Ministers of each parish, with comments on people, environment, occupations and so on. They are of great historical value.

Click here to access the Statistical Accounts of Scotland website.

SCRAN Logo

SCRAN stands for "Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network". This lottery-funded on-line resource has accumulated a vast amount of information about practically every aspect of Scottish culture. There are images galore and many, many multimedia files. It's an exciting site, revamped in December 2004, and even better now. Go on, try it!

Click here to go to the SCRAN website.

Kompass is a vast information source about companies, products and services. To make a simple, restricted search of companies and businesses worldwide.

Note that we do not at present subscribe to the full version of Kompass.

Click here to go to the Kompass website.

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