OverDrive allow you to borrow e-books and audiobooks for free from bestsellers to classics. For more information on how to get started, get in touch with your local library or visit OverDrive help (the website currently works best using Mozilla Firefox and recent versions of Internet Explorer).
OverDrive also provides e-reading rooms for children and teens, allowing them to browse safely and see a selection of age appropriate titles.
You can borrow five titles at any one time.
The OverDrive app is available to download from:
Libby (by OverDrive) allows you to borrow a wide selection of e-books and e-audiobooks for free. You can borrow up to five items at once and also place up to five reservations.
For more information or help using the app, visit OverDrive/Libby.
The Libby app is available to download from:
RBdigital allows you to borrow e-books, audiobooks and comics free of charge. Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, you can download bestsellers to play on your MP3 Player, iPod or computer from home or anywhere in the world. As each title has unlimited availability, you just need a computer or device with internet access and your library membership details.
You can borrow four titles at any one time.
For Windows phones and tablets you will need to use the direct download option. In your account preferences, select 'Download zip file (for non-protected titles only)' for direct downloads.
For help using RBdigital, view the browser guide (PDF) or app guide (PDF).
You can now register on your mobile device by following the steps in the user guide (PDF) or video guide. Once registered, you will be automatically logged in and can enjoy our content.
The RBdigital app is available to download from:
BorrowBox offers easy access to a broad choice of e-books and audiobooks for you to borrow and listen to through a simple app for smartphones and tablets. You can also borrow and download the items to your PC or Mac to put onto an iPod or other MP3 player. Loans automatically expire at the end of the three-week loan period, so you won't need to return them. BorrowBox includes a selection of titles for adults, young adults, and children.
You can borrow four titles at any one time.
For Windows phones and tablets, use the website for direct downloads.
The BorrowBox app is available to download from:
uLIBRARY lets you download and listen to professionally recorded audiobooks, brought to life by some of the world's best performers.
With a great selection of bestselling authors, including Lee Child, Ann Cleeves and James Patterson, you can take 'that book you keep hearing about' with you wherever you go.
Boasting titles for everyone's taste - from 'sleep with the lights on' thrillers, to sweeping family sagas - you'll be sure to find something to listen to. Best of all, there's no late fees. With uLIBRARY the titles return automatically, allowing you to move onto your next listen with ease.
The uLIBRARY app is available to download from:
PressReader offers thousands of newspapers and magazines from one hundred countries in sixty languages. Choose from The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Jewish Chronicle, Empire, Elle and lots more.
Download the PressReader app, sign in with your library card for free then read. After thirty days, log out and sign in again.
The PressReader app is available to download from:
There is a wide range of magazines to choose from on the RBdigital magazine website and app. You can read them on your computer, smartphone or tablet for free.
The RBdigital app is available to download from:
British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and brightsolid online publishing to digitize up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next ten years. New pages are added every day from hundreds of local and regional newspapers from across the UK and Ireland. Get a real sense of Britain's history. Read it today, as it happened.
It includes pages from newspapers published up to 1950, concentrating mainly on post 1800 material but some editions as early as 1716 are available.
What you can search:
Only available at Local Studies.
Investors Chronicle has been helping investors make their money work harder for over 150 years. Independent coverage of the UK stock market. Library access only.
The Times Digital Archive has the full text of every article to appear in the Times newspaper from 1785 - 2008. Access is limited to two concurrent users and so may not be available at all times.
Financial Times Online gives you free access to five years’ worth of Financial Times business statistics and analysis. Library access only.
Stingray Qello has the world's largest collection of concert films and music documentaries.