Information Services

NYCC Library

Ask us for all your information needs

• Your library has helpful staff trained to answer your enquiries, or you can help yourself to information from a wide range of information resources, including free broadband access to the Internet via 300 computers in 45 libraries.

The Library and Information Centre

• Your local access point to a vast network of information and expertise.
• Library and Information staff welcome your enquiries.
• We answer hundreds every day!
• Your One-Stop Information Shop
• Whatever you want to know ask your Library and Information Centre first.
• From information on claiming rights and benefits, through researching a hobby, to finishing a crossword, we can help.

• All centres have a range of encyclopaedias, dictionaries, guides and leaflets. Larger Library and Information Centres can provide business information, telephone directories, newspaper indexes, maps and specialist books.

• Can't find what you need? Just ask. Our experienced staff will be happy to help. If they can't find the information you need immediately, they will be able to put you in touch with someone who can.
• Local Information and Family History
• Local and Family History Interested in finding out more about the history of your family, house or community? Books, maps, newspapers, photographs, directories and census returns can all help. You will find many useful resources at your local Library and Information Centre.

Local Information

All libraries have some information about their local area and community:

• Events
• Local societies and clubs
• Tourist information
• Doctors
• Dentists
• Bus and rail timetables

Business Information and Lifelong Learning

Business Information

• job interview information
• European Information
• British Standards
• Trade and Telephone Directories
• Company Details
• Lifelong Learning

Whether continuing in education or reurning to learning in later life, North Yorkshire's 45 Library and Information Centres have something offer.

Lifelong Learning involves anything from finding out how to embark upon new hobby, exploring taking up a sructured course at a local college or working at your own time and pace in a distance learning course.

Libraries are places ideally suited for you to find out about and pursue a whole range of learning opportunities.

Your Library First Stop for Information

ALL IN A DAY'S WORK

• Where do I report the fact that the traffic lights have stopped working?
• Are there any good price-comparison sites on the Internet for shopping?
• Ask us for all your needs

• I want to sculpt a rhino: can you help me find pictures?
• I need a copy of my great-grandfather's marriage certificate
• I have to write an essay on euthanasia, can you help?
• Can I legally marry my mother-in-law?
• What is Trellis-coded modulation?
• Do you have any holiday information about the Lake District?
• I'd like to look at the university prospectus for Durham
• I need to find out about Rob Roy
• Where do I find out about rights of way?

With a network of 45 branches and a mobile library service, you're never too far from a North Yorkshire County Council Library and Information Centre.*NYCC Library Services Find us in the phone book under `libraries'
Telephone our Headquarters on 01609 767800 to find your nearest centre.
Visit our website at: www.northyorks.gov.uk/libraries
Email us at: libraries@northyorks.gov.uk

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