- Bodleian Library - One of the world's oldest and most famous libraries at Oxford University.
- British Library, Portico - The British Library's Online Information Server. Includes: Blaise - bibliographic records provided by the major departments of the British Library, including Humanities and Social Sciences, the Science Reference and Information Service, Oriental and India
- Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, National Library of Wales - Details of available documents, search the catalogues of the photographic, picture and prints collections.
- Public Lending Right UK - Provides information on the PLR Scheme. It provides advice on eligibility, registration and payment from government for the free lending of their books by libraries.
- National Library of Scotland - A complete list of Library catalogues and indexes, current exhibitions and a digital library.
- British Library, Inside - Access to 10.5 million articles from 20,000 premier journals, 2.5 million conference papers, 10,000 new articles daily. Search and order directly over the Web and receive articles within two hours.
- British Library of Political and Economic Science - As well as being the working library of the London School of Economics (LSE), the library serves as a national collection of material for research on Social Sciences.
- Poetry Library Online - World's largest public library devoted exclusively to modern poetry. Site includes a 'Lost Quotation Noticeboard' for when you can't remember what comes next.
- National Art Library - Research and reference library based at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
- COPAC - Unified access to the catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
- National Marine Biological Library - Based in Plymouth, south-west England, the NMBL contains one of the world's major collections of literature on aquatic sciences and fisheries, and acts as a marine biological sciences resource for the UK.
- British Jigsaw Puzzle Library - Lending library of hand made wooden jigsaw puzzles. 3,500 puzzles in current circulation. The club has been in existence since 1933.
- The UK Public Libraries Page - An exhaustive list of libraries, compiled by Sheila and Robert Harden with sites that make 'an effort to use the medium imaginatively' marked.
- Library History Database: The British Isles to 1850 - Directory with summary information arranged geographically and by type of library.
- Familia - Index of family history resources held by public libraries in Britain and Ireland
- People's Network - Government site detailing the progress of the government's project to connect all public libraries to the Internet
- British Film Institute National Library - The bfi National Library provides access to a large collection of documentation and information on film and television.
- Science Museum Library - Science Museum Library is a research library, open to the general public for reference. Our collections form a record of scientific, technological and medical change since the eighteenth century
- Working Class Movement Library - A collection of materials concerned with the activities, expression and enquiries of the labor movement, its allies and its enemies, since the late eighteenth century.
- Inner Temple Library - A law library for Inner Temple members and for barrister members of the other Inns of Court. Includes a history of the Inner Temple.
- The Ambleside Museum & Armitt Library - Free educational institution in the Lake District. Bibliographies and artefacts on natural history and local people including Beatrix Potter, Ruskin and the Lake poets.
- Association of Independent Libraries - Directory and guide to the history and collections of independent subscription libraries.
- The Birmingham & Midland Institute Library - Book collection dating from 1799 and music library. Events, membership and location map.
- Chawton House Library & Study Centre - Centre for the Study of Early English Women's Writing, 1600-1830, in Jane Austen's former home. Online texts, history and access.
- Chetham's Library - Founded in 1653 in Manchester, England and open free of charge. History, list of manuscripts and online catalogue.
- The Devon & Exeter Institution - Independent subscription library with collections strong in nineteenth-century periodicals and material on South West England. Photographs, history and membership information.
- The Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution - Private lending library in London including archives relating to Highgate Village and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Description of collections and lecture programme.
- Leadhills Reading Society - Official site of the oldest subscription library in Britain, founded in 1741. History of the library and the village, photographs and information for visitors.
- The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne - History and photographs of this subscription library offering books, magazines and CDs. Programme of free events and children's page.
- The London Library - Scholarly subscription library in central London collecting principally in the humanities. History, collections, membership information and online catalogue.
- Marx Memorial Library - Subscription lending library in London dedicated to Marxism and labour movements. Overview of collections, lecture programme and membership rates.
- The Portico Library and Gallery - A subscription library in Manchester featuring 19th century literature, local school exhibits, artist submissions, and gallery.
- The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine - Research library in London, open to the public free of charge. Catalogues of books, archives and images.
- Whitby Literary & Philosophical Society Library & Archive - History and description of the local history, maritime and geological collections of this English learned society.
- Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) - The national (UK) development agency working for and on behalf of museums, libraries and archives and advising government on policy and priorities for the sector.
- British Library Public Catalogue - A free service to allow you to find out what material is held in the major Reference and Document Supply collections of the British Library.
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