{"id":1265,"date":"2006-05-21T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2006-05-21T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T07:34:08","slug":"get-thee-to-a-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"Get thee to a public library&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a huge hat tip &#8211; nay a bow &#8211; to Tony on <a href=\"http:\/\/omf.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/oed-etc.html\">Other Men&#8217;s Flowers<\/a>, I&#8217;ve just found that you can access the <em>Oxford English Dictionary <\/em> and <em>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<\/em> through your local library, at least in England. All you need is your library card number (or to get one), at least in <a href = \"http:\/\/www.camden.gov.uk\/ccm\/navigation\/leisure\/libraries-and-online-learning-centres\/\">Camden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also <em>Encyclopaedia Britannica, Grove Music Online, Grove Art Online<\/em>, and the <em>Times Digital Archive<\/em>. And it is through the website, so you can do it from home.  Let&#8217;s all use it, and so help to make sure it continues!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a huge hat tip &#8211; nay a bow &#8211; to Tony on Other Men&#8217;s Flowers, I&#8217;ve just found that you can access the Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford Dictionary of National Biography through your local library, at least in England. All you need is your library card number (or to get one), at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}