Online with your library

Your new Libraries website – launching on 1 April

We will be launching our new Libraries website on Wednesday 1 April. The site will not only have an improved look and feel, for the first time you will be able search the catalogue, join, log in to your account and borrow books from the homepage. Our existing Library webpages may be offline from Friday 20 March, in preparation for launching the new site. All your account information will be carried across on Friday 20, and will be there in the new site. The App will continue working throughout. We have more information on our website   

Dictionaries and references

You can get free access to online Ocford Dictionary of English as part of our reference library.

This can be accessed either by using computers in your local library or on your home computer.

To use this service:

  • go to Oxford Dictionary of English
  • under 'Log in with a library card' enter your library card number
  • select 'Thurrock Libraries' from the list of libraries and institutions

The Oxford Dictionary of English is a modern use dictionary with grammar and thesaurus (synonym) links. It is different and separate to the Oxford English Dictionary.