General reference

Biography

• Use your library card to access Who's Who

Dictionaries and language 

• Use your library card to access dictionaries on Credo Reference
  and Oxford Reference Online.
• Acronymn finder
• My Language
  Search engines, web directories and news in over sixty languages
• Reverse Dictionary (OneLook)
  Find a word from its definition
• Your Dictionary
  Comprehensive free portal of 2,500 dictionaries in 300 languages.

Radio 

• BBC Radio
  Listing of BBC radio stations.
  

Telephone and postcode directories, and people finders

• 192.com
  Over 630 million records of people, businesses and places.
• UK Codes - Code locator
  Telephone codes located.
• UK Postcode Finder
  Address and postcode finder service.
• UK Telephone Directories – BT
  Alphabetical business and residential listings.
• UK Yellow Pages
  Find a service or product supplier.
• World Telephone Directories
  Extensive international coverage.

General

• Central Intelligence Agency World fact Book
  Flags, maps and comparisons between all the countries of the world.
• Gazetteer: International
  Use your library card to access "Collins World Atlas Gazetteer online"
• Gazetteer: Great Britain
  Place names from Ordnance Survey website
• Guinness World Records
  Online version with a selection of records from the famous annual.
• Measuring Worth
  Compares monetary transactions in different countries and in history
• Met Office
  Weather forecasts and information
• Tide tables
  Log yourself in to get full predictions or download next seven days for free
• World Clock
  Current times and time converter.