I know that many people are either residents or have family or friends here whose address you can use to get a local library card. This useful for research, reading newspapers,borrowing books,cds,dvds and you also get one hour's free internet access.

If you are in higher education and need to do quite a lot of research and will need access to material from other libraries then join a website called http://www.access.sconul.ac.uk they are a good vehicle to source material for fact and figures. The site allows students as well as any one else provided they are a member of their local library to do all this. Staff,research students,full-time post graduates,part-time,distance learning and placement students to borrow sourced materials for their use.