eBooks and eAudiobooks
Libby
Libby (by OverDrive) allows you to borrow a wide selection of eBooks and eAudiobooks for free. You can borrow up to 8 items at once and also place up to 8 reservations.
For more information or help using the app, visit OverDrive/Libby.
The Libby app is available to download from:
BorrowBox
BorrowBox offers easy access to a broad choice of e-books and audiobooks for you to borrow and listen to through a simple app for smartphones and tablets. You can also borrow and download the items to your PC or Mac to put onto an iPod or other MP3 player. Loans automatically expire at the end of the 3-week loan period, so you won't need to return them. BorrowBox includes a selection of titles for adults, young adults, and children.
You can borrow or reserve 18 titles at once - 6 eBooks, 6 eAudiobooks and 6 ePress.
Please use the last 4 digits of your library card number as PIN.
For Windows phones and tablets, use the website for direct downloads.
The BorrowBox app is available to download from:
uLIBRARY
uLIBRARY lets you download and listen to professionally recorded audiobooks, brought to life by some of the world's best performers.
With a great selection of bestselling authors, including Lee Child, Ann Cleeves and James Patterson, you can take 'that book you keep hearing about' with you wherever you go.
Boasting titles for everyone's taste - from 'sleep with the lights on' thrillers, to sweeping family sagas - you'll be sure to find something to listen to. Best of all, there's no late fees. With uLIBRARY the titles return automatically, allowing you to move onto your next listen with ease.
The uLIBRARY app is available to download from:
eLearning
COBRA
COBRA, the Complete Business Reference Advisor, offers everything you need from starting to developing your business.
Enfield library members get free access to factsheets, market reports, contacts, funding sources and support. You can also get hundreds of practical guides for starting more than 350 types of businesses.
You can login to COBRA using your library card number.
Develop in-demand technical skills
Microsoft Learn is a free, interactive, hands-on training platform that helps people develop in-demand technical skills related to widely used Microsoft products and services (including, Azure, Microsoft 365 and many more).
Dictionary corner
Oxford English Dictionary online is the full text of the world's most comprehensive dictionary.
Oxford Languages encompasses an English dictionary, a thesaurus, language dictionaries (including, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish) and grammar rules. It collects, processes and analyses language, including how it is changing, its usage, history and how it relates to other languages.
Driving and citizenship test help
Theory Test Pro is a free-to-try realistic online simulation of the UK's driving theory test. It contains the official test questions, hazard perception video clips and an online version of the Highway Code. It translates into over 40 different languages and is licensed from the Driving Standards Agency, who set the test.
Go Citizen is an online study resources for candidates preparing for the Life in the UK or British Citizenship test. This is a comprehensive and proven study package, with an online version of the latest official study materials, licensed from the Home Office, who write the handbook. It also includes hundreds of practice test questions in the same format as the official test.
Family history and genealogy
Ancestry Library is only available in our Local Studies and Archive.
Find my Past is a family history database (with added 1911 Census) only available at our Local Studies and Archive.
The Genealogist enables you to trace your family history. With records, including births, marriages, deaths, census, parish records, non-conformist records, wills, military records and tithe records. This database is only available in our Local History Unit.
Homework and reference
Britannica Library is a great homework, study or research resource with in-depth articles, photos, audio links, videos, diagrams, index, A to Z browse, interesting links, a dictionary and much more for 14 years old and up.
Britannica Library (Student) is a version of the Britannica adapted to children aged 10 to 14.
Britannica Library (Junior) is a version of the Britannica that's suitable for children aged 5 to 10.
Oxford Art Online has articles, images and a comprehensive series of links covering painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, textiles, jewellery, design and furniture.
Oxford Reference is a compendium of over 175 subject dictionaries, plus the World Encyclopedia, offering unrivalled coverage of everything from art to accountancy, politics to physics and computing to classics.
Oxford Music Online has articles and sound clips covering musicians, genres, record companies, music, festivals and songs.
UK Who's Who and Who Was Who contains over 33,000 short biographies, continually updated, of noteworthy and influential individuals from all walks of life, worldwide. Approximately one thousand new entries are added every year. Who Was Who contains over 100,000 entries from the archives of Who's Who dating back to 1898, the definitive roll-call of the last 150 years of British history.
Very Short Introductions is the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. It offers books for students and scholars, and the avidly curious, offering a bridge between reference content and higher academic work. All titles provide intelligent and serious introductions to a huge range of subjects, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable.
Languages and learning
Alison offers free online courses from the world's leading publishers. This includes over 300 courses in computers, IT, literacy, languages, health and safety, and liberal arts and sciences. All courses contain audio, video, online quizzes and assessments. After successfully completing these courses, you will be able to download a certificate of completion.
Community Learning with Enfield libraries is available to those who wish to learn the basics of using a PC via the free Learn My Way page. If you already have the basics but wish to improve your skills, try Alison.
Excel Easy offers a free, easy to follow, fully illustrated Excel tutorial (including Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming) with 300 examples.
Future Learn offers free online courses from the world's leading universities and institutions, including the British Council, the British Film Institute and the European Space Agency. Courses cover a broad and diverse range of subjects, including science, language, teaching, history and literature.
Transparent Language is a language learning resource featuring more than 110 languages. You can learn reading, writing, speaking and listening skills from a native speaker. There are also courses included for English as a second language (ESOL). To get the most out of the platform, you will need speakers, headphones and a microphone (if you want to record yourself).
Scribeasy is a new service for libraries, and Edmonton Green Library is the first public library to offer it. Scribeasy uses scene-making to inspire children to write stories and has a built-in spell check, thesaurus, badge awards system, and over 300 pictures to make scenes. It's a great tool for hobby writing, home learning, and literacy development. Visit Edmonton Green Library to use it for free.
eNewspapers and eMagazines
PressReader
PressReader offers thousands of newspapers and magazines from one hundred countries in 60 languages. Choose from The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Jewish Chronicle, Empire, Elle and lots more.
Download the PressReader app, sign in with your library card for free then read. After 30 days, log out and sign in again.
The PressReader app is available to download from:
- Get PressReader on the App Store
- Get PressReader on Google Play
- Get PressReader on Amazon
- Get PressReader on Windows phone
Useful guides
- Quick start guide
- 'How to' video playlist (sign in to PressReader to view)
- Help centre
- Tutorial video
Libby
Libby (by OverDrive) allows you to borrow a wide selection of eMagazines and eComics for free. You can borrow up to 5 items at once and also place up to 5 reservations.
For more information or help using the app, visit OverDrive/Libby.
The Libby app is available to download from:
British Newspaper Archive
British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and brightsolid online publishing to digitize up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years. New pages are added every day from hundreds of local and regional newspapers from across the UK and Ireland. Get a real sense of Britain's history. Read it today, as it happened.
It includes pages from newspapers published up to 1950, concentrating mainly on post 1800 material but some editions as early as 1716 are available.
What you can search:
- News articles
- Family notices
- Letters to the editors
- Obituaries
- Advertisements
- Illustrations
Only available at Local Studies.
The Times Digital Archive
The Times Digital Archive has the full text of every article to appear in the Times newspaper from 1785 to 2008. Access is limited to 2 concurrent users and so may not be available at all times.
My Library app
Access the library anytime, anywhere.
Using our new mobile app, 'My Library' you can:
- have easy access to your library account
- search and renew items online
- place and manage reservations
- view payments
- access our range of eBooks and other eResources
- scan a book's ISBN barcode anywhere and immediately find out whether the book you want is in stock at your library
Download the free 'My Library' app from the App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android.