Reference and Local Studies
The Reference, Family History and Local Studies collection is situated on the first floor of the library and offers the following services and facilities:
- Acts of Parliament and Statutory Instruments.
- Ancestry on-line
- Books (reference only).
- British Standards online.
- Community Legal Service Quality Mark for assisted information.
- Community Information Online
- Computers for public use with Internet access.
- Display space (notice boards only ).
- Durham Record Database containing old photographs and maps.
- European Public Information Centre (EPIC)
- Family history resources including the IGI, the GRO index of births, marriages and deaths 1837 - 2004, County Durham census records 1841 - 1901, the Durham Advertiser 1814 to date and the Durham Chronicle 1820 - 1951, trade directories and some parish registers.
- Fax Service
- Foreign Newspapers including, Le Monde, El Pais, Die Welt, La Repubblica, Dziennik Polski.
- Gazetteers Plus
- Historical Maps for sale.
- Information leaflets.
- Local Studies collection containing over 11,000 books, pamphlets, newspaper cuttings, periodical articles and ephemera.
- Newsbank (online newspaper archive).
- Newspapers The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, The Financial Times, Northern Echo, Sunderland Echo, The Journal, The Evening Chronicle, The Daily Mail. The Times and Sunday Times on CD ROM from 1995 and The Northern Echo from 1996.
- Libraries - Libraries Online
- Sunday newspapers, including, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Observer, The Independent, The Sunday Sun, The Mail on Sunday.
- Magazines including Which?.
- Maps.
- Online Databases PLUM - Online detailed company information (financial), Burke's Peerage and Baronetage and Britannica Online.
- Photocopying.
- Telephone and Postcode Directories.
- Which on-line.
