are you...... bored? fed up? frustrated? spending too long searching for resources? help is at hand!
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Are you......
Bored?
Fed Up?
Frustrated?
Spending too
long searching
for resources?
Help is at hand!
Do you believe everything you read or see online??
• Wikipedia
• Wikileaks
All these are available through Scottish Borders Library Service!!
All you need is your library membership number!!
A straightforward search
Access to the full text of the 20 volume, 2nd edition.
Also has 55,000 new and revised entries available online.
2.5 million quotations
• A great place to get a variety of different resources.
• 190 dictionaries
• Thesauruses
• Encyclopaedias
• Timelines
• Images
• All accessible from one general search
Timeline Example WWII
What can you do?
Dúisigh!
Searching for stamen
A diagram of a stamen
Is this what you were looking for?
How about these?
Only 4 from a selection of nearly 16,000 images!
Fancy some Scran?Easy to log in from home or school.
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Galashiels (March 1970)
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Girls in laboratory at BHS about 1915Making Eyemouth Harbour deeper
Selkirk Cricket match 1937
Baby show at Kelso
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There is over 3 million entries which includes full text animations, video clips and images.
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