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Reference and information services
 Opening times and details
Online services
Information sources and links
Opening times and details
Battersea Reference Library is open seven days a week to answer your questions.
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Reference Library
121 Altenburg Gardens
SW11 1JQ
020 8871 7467
Fax: 020 7978 4376
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We have 88 study places.
Anyone can use our sources of information, no membership is required. Stock cannot be borrowed but public photocopying facilities are available subject to copyright.
Our staff are experienced and skilled in answering enquiries using the Internet and online databases as well as printed sources.
The library contains standard reference works including encyclopaedias, a selection of English and foreign language dictionaries, telephone directories, atlases, biographical information, statistical tables, business directories and much more.
We work in partnership with other providers in the borough and beyond and if we do not have what you are looking for we will find someone who can help.
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BookFind Online
Accessed on terminals in Wandsworth Libraries free of charge
BookFind's online database provides global book title coverage with comprehensive information on UK and US titles as well as English language titles from Australia, New Zealand And South Africa. All information is updated daily with thousands of changes and additions to the Book Data database.
Once connected to the BookFind service, click on the Premier Service link.
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Infotrac Full Text Newspaper Database
Accessed on terminals in Wandsworth Libraries free of charge
This fully searchable database of over 40 UK and US newspapers contains over 4 million articles with an archive extending to January 1996. It is updated daily and includes The Birmingham Post, Boston Herald, The Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, The Evening Standard, The Independent, The Mail on Sunday, New York Times, The Scotsman and many more.
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KnowUK
Accessed on terminals in Wandsworth Libraries free of charge
KnowUK provides key information on the people, institutions and organisations which influence, govern and make up the United Kingdom. It draws together, in a single electronic source, some of the most heavily-used and authoritative reference materials in any library - from Who's Who and Debrett's People of Today through The Municipal Yearbook to a series of Which? guides and The Statesman's Yearbook. KnowUK contains over 80 publications. |
Information sources and links:
 Business
Local information
Consumer
Electoral registration
European Public Information Centre
Lifelong Learning and Education
Products and services
Small businesses
Local information
Consumer
Exhibitions and trade fairs
Finance
Market research
Organisations and government deaprtments
Products and services
Small businesses
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