Please contact your local library for further information or assistance with any of our online resources.
Download bestselling eBooks & eAudiobooks for free, at a time and location that suits you with Borrow Box.
Choose from thousands of titles in a variety of genres and enjoy immediately or transfer to a wide range of devices.
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For more information please contact your local library.
BorrowBox allows library members to read digital magazines for free, in any location, at any time, on any device.
To access the service download the BorrowBox app and sign in with your library membership details. Select the "ePress" section once you are signed in.
Alternatively to access on a computer, visit https://waterford.borrowbox.com/, click on 'Sign-In' and then enter your library membership details. Select the "ePress" section from the menu at the top of the screen to browse magazines.
For more information about this service, please contact your local library.
Transparent Language Online
Transparent Language Online offers a comprehensive language-learning solution for library members. The service features a scientifically proven methodology, a wide variety of high-quality learning materials, and seamless integration of real-life language used by native speakers, all packaged together in an easy-to-use interface.
Key features of the service include:
To access this service Library Members need to visit Transparent Language Online, and register with their library card number and email address and then choose a password.
If you are already registered for our RB Digital Magazines service you can use your existing sign in details to access Transparent Language Online.
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Learn something new with our range of over 500 online courses.
Universal Class is free for all library members and can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection.
Members can enroll in up to five courses at a time and have up to six months to finish each course. Each course has a real instructor who you may communicate with using email.
You have access to your course 24/7 via the Internet.
These are non-credit courses and are provided for your personal enrichment.
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For more information please contact your local library.
Digital editions of local historical newspapers including:
Free access to all users.
*Due to essential maintenance, digital editions of the Waterford Mail are temporarily unavailable.
The Waterford Mail is available to view on microfilm in Waterford Central Library. To book a research appointment to access microfilms please contact Central Library 051 849975.
BorrowBox - Digital Newspapers
Read newspapers anytime, anywhere on any device!
BorrowBox allows library members to read digital newspapers for free, in any location, at any time, on any device.
To access the service download the BorrowBox app and sign in with your library membership details. Select the "ePress" section once you are signed in. Alternatively to access on a computer, visit https://waterford.borrowbox.com/, click on 'Sign-In' and then enter your library membership details. Select the "ePress" section from the menu at the top of the screen to browse newspapers.
For more information about this service please contact your local library.
Irish Newspaper Archive
Irish Newspaper Archives contains electronic versions of Irish newspapers from the 1700s to current day. With the Irish Newspaper Archives you can search, retrieve and view newspapers from 1700s to the present (except for the last 10 days (dailies) or most recent issue (weeklies). Local users will find The Munster Express here.
You can access this service from Library Branches using Library PCs only.
Irish Times Digital Archive
This collection contains all articles published by the Irish Times from 1859 onwards. Invaluable for social research and gaining a wider historical perspective on local events.
You can access this service from Library Branches using Library PCs only.
For more information please contact your local library.
Vision-Net can be used to carry out online business research. The service provides free online access to documents filed in the Irish Companies Registration Office. Vision-Net can be used to carry out market research such as Company, Business Name, Judgment, Director
and Industry searches.
As Vision-Net is a free service offered by Waterford Libraries please note there is a limit on the number of searches that can be conducted each month.
For further information on these limits please contact scummins@waterfordcouncil.ie.
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For more information please contact your local library.
Explore Waterford newspapers, photographs, journals, books, genealogical records, local places and subjects.
