The Commons Library provides a range of services for MPs and their staff, including impartial research and access to resources and training.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/about-us/services/
The first four are linked from this page: http://intranet.parliament.uk/people-offices/offices-departments/commons-departments/commons-information-services/commons-library/publications/.
1. Online Resources from the Library
https://intranet.parliament.uk/research-online/online-resources/a-z1/
This includes key resources such as Library Research Papers, Standard Notes and Debate Packs; it also includes parliamentary documentation and more specialised subscription resources, such as law databases, Who’s Who, journals, and news and media sources.
2. Services for Members Staff
http://intranet.parliament.uk/Documents/people-offices/office-departments/commons-departments/commons-information-services/commons-library/Publications/services-for-members-staff.pdf.
This leaflet gives an overview of the Library services available to Members’ staff
3. Information Skills Training
http://intranet.parliament.uk/Documents/people-offices/office-departments/commons-departments/commons-information-services/commons-library/Publications/information-skills-training.pdf.
Information on the training that the Library provides in the use of online resources.
4. Using the Library from the Constituency
http://intranet.parliament.uk/Documents/people-offices/office-departments/commons-departments/commons-information-services/commons-library/Publications/using-the-library-from-the-constituency.pdf.
The House of Commons Library may not be physically near you, but almost all of the services available to Westminster-based staff are also available to constituency staff.
5. Library Loans Service
https://intranet.parliament.uk/research-online/research/commons-library-loans1/
The Library Loans Service provides loans of books and other published material (journals and official publications), DVDs and CDs of parliamentary and current affairs programmes, and an inter-library loans service for material not held in the Library.
6. Subject Specialists Directory
Before submitting a request for information and research from the Library’s team of subject
specialists, please do look at the material already published on the Library website: commonslibrary.parliament.uk