SCHOOL pupils in Lancashire are being offered the chance to win an iPod by logging on to the county's new Online Reference Library.

Lancashire County Library and Information Service is launching the new service in June but five iPod music players are already up for grabs to students who can find the answers to an online quiz.

The Online Reference Library gives library members free access to a whole range of encyclopaedias, diction-aries and specialist websites containing a wealth of information on subjects from local history to celebrity biographies.

The quiz is open to anyone aged 16 or under who goes to school in Lancashire the answers can only be found by using the Online Reference Library.

Entry forms are available from secondary schools and local libraries across the county.

The quiz can also be accessed online at www.lancashire.gov.uk/onrl.