Happy National Libraries Day!

To celebrate National Libraries Day on Saturday 6th February weve selected some of our favourite library
content across the OUP online resources, along with literary biographies to read or listen to.
Click on the links below to access the content. All free content will be available until February 8th 2016.

Oxford Reference and Very Short Introductions

Libraries in the UK and beyond
Libraries in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey from The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
Science, and Technology in Islam
Circulating Libraries from The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
Libraries from The Oxford Companion to Scottish History
Library Architecture from The Oxford Companion to the Book
Library Equipment from The Oxford Companion to the Book
The British Library from The Oxford Companion to the Book
The Library at Nineveh from The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Literary anniversaries in 2016

Audio literary lives

Thomas Gray (born 1716)

Dame Agatha Christie

Charlotte Bront (born 1816)

Arthur Conan Doyle

Roald Dahl (born 1916)

J G Ballard

Penelope Fitzgerald (born 1916)

Sylvia Plath
See all

Grove Music Online

Music libraries
International Association of
Music Libraries
Music Library Association

Did you know you can access OUP

resources with your library card?
90% of all UK Public Libraries have access to the
Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Dictionaries,
Oxford Reference, and the Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography.
See what your library has access to
Visit A Library in Your Living Room for detailed
information on getting started with each of the
online resources.