Online Reference Library
Find the answer here. Dictionaries, encyclopaedias and newspaper articles in full, online, and completely free to use - 24 hours a day.
The following subscription websites are FREE to users in libraries, and FREE to library members at home - if you are using the websites at home you just need to enter the number from the back of your library card.
World famous encyclopedia, in full & online, plus versions for High School & Primary School students. For more information, and to search Britannica, click here.
Please use the computers in any of our libraries to search Ancestry and Find My Past in full, and completely free of charge. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer these websites to users at home.
Users in libraries should click the links below.
Oxford Dictionaries Pro is ideal for anyone who needs fast online access to an authoritative, comprehensive English dictionary or thesaurus, plus first-rate language resources from the world’s most trusted dictionary publisher. To search Oxford Dictionaries Pro, click here. Includes an Anagram Finder & Crossword solver and weekly crossword puzzles and word games.
World-famous historical dictionary, the definitive guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words in the English language. For more information, and to search OED, click here
Facts, figures, definitions and translations, from over 150 Oxford Reference tiles. Includes Welsh, English, Spanish, Italian, German, French & Latin dictionaries; dictionaries of quotations; and a wealth of subject dictionaries from Art to Zoology. To search Oxford Reference, click here
Online Newspaper articles from a range of Welsh, UK & International newspapers. Click here to search from a Powys Library or click here to search from home (users at home - click on the link and then click on the little image of the magnifying glass to login).
More than 56,000 biographies, of men and women who shaped British history, from the 4th century BC to 2005. To search the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, click here
Try the e-resources at the National Library of Wales
The National Library of Wales has an extended collection of online resources open to anybody with a Welsh postcode. To access the collection, you will need to create an online user ticket: click here for more information and to create a National Library online user ticket.
The NLW collection of online resources includes: The Times Digital Archive, 19th Century British Library Newspapers, Who's who and Who was who. Click here for a full list of National Library Online Resources (scroll down to A -Z of e-Resources, and click on the plus sign to see the full list).
Pages from the Web
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Homework support for Primay School Students
Homework support for High School Students
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Ask Cymru is Wales' Electronic Reference Library.
Ask Cymru is ready to take your questions and deliver an answer direct to your mailbox within two working days - 24 hours per day, 365 days a year.
Public, university and college libraries throughout Wales – including Powys Libraries - work together to provide the Ask Cymru service.
Just click here for Ask Cymru.
