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Arts
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Other Reference Sources
Philosophy
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Psychology
Reference
Science
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Museums
Visual Art
- Artcyclopedia
Search the Internet Museum websites by artist and retrieve digital
images of their work and related links.
- Mother
of All Art History Links Pages
- Smithsonian Archives of American Art
Since 1954, the Archives has collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documentation that supports the study of the history of the visual arts in America.
- The Artchive
Images by artist and eras.
- World Wide Arts Resources
Index to artists, museums, galleries, art history, arts education,
antiques, performing arts.
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- @Brint
Business, management
and information technology issues. Access to full-text articles
& papers, magazines & journals, case studies, news, links
and tools.
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Business, The New York Times on the Web, glossary
Glossary of Financial and Business Terms with over 2,500 Entries
- Edgar
The Electronic
Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated
collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of
submissions by companies and others who are required by law to
file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
- Fortune.com
- Hoover's Online
Company
information - brief history, 4-year stock history, industry history
& status.
- Industry
Research Desk
Specific industries and companies. Change of
SIC to NAICS.
- Investor's Business Daily
newspaper.
- NYSE Arca > The Exchange
NYSE Arca currently trades options using PCX Plus®, a technology platform and market structure introduced in 2005. It was designed to better serve existing market participants and to attract additional sources of liquidity to the Exchange by allowing Market Makers to access our markets remotely making it the most flexible platform in the industry. PCX Plus electronically integrates the Exchange's current floor-based participants and Remote Market Makers.
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Geography
- All the
World's Maps
Use the drop down menu to select a country, then
choose from a large variety of maps. Links are provided to travel
information and embassies.
- Geographic
Names Information System
This a searchable database that provides
you with basic information about U.S. cities, states, and counties,
including latitude, longitude, and population. In addition, it
will provide a map of where each location is within the United
States.
- How Far is it?
Sponsored
by Bali Online, this system allows you to enter city names or
longitude and latitude to compute the flight distance between
any two points on earth. The distance is reported in statute miles,
nautical miles, and kilometers with links to maps and driving
directions provided by other commercial sites.
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Map Machine
This site is provided by the National Geographic
Society. It provides political and physical maps, as well as links
to many other map resources. The atlas links to country facts,
profiles, and flags.
- National Atlas
of the U.S.
This instructive system allows you to determine
what will appear on the map (airports? rivers?). Take a minute
to look over the instructions, this is a powerful, complicated
tool.
- Perry-Castañeda
Library
This site provides access to maps that are no longer copyrighted.
It contains over 2,100 images and is international in scope. The
maps are arranged by region and can be historical, political,
outline, or reliefs. Next to the link to the map is the date of
the map, type of map, and file size.
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Terra Server
Sponsored by Microsoft, this is a searchable
collection of aerial photographs and satellite images covering
most parts of the U.S. and some parts of the rest of the world.
- U.S. Gazetteer
This is a searchable database provided by the Census Department.
It allows a user to search by city name, 5-digit zip code, or
city and state abbreviation. The results of a search include population
data, location (latitude and longitude), zip codes, a map, and
access to various census tables.
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Book Reviews
- BookBrowser
This site
aids readers with finding books and authors. In doing so, it provides
genre reading lists by series, location, date, and "best
of", as well as recommending new titles based upon your current
reading preferences. In addition, you will find lists of forthcoming
books and reviews.
- Booklist
Provided by the American Library Association, this site has reviews
of books, multimedia materials, and reference materials for all
age groups. The reviews are written by librarians and can be searched
or browsed. It contains reviews from January 1996 through the
present.
- London Review of Books
A
well-respected monthly journal of book reviews and commentary.
- N.
Y. Times Book Reviews
One of the best known sources for current
book reviews. Free registration is required.
Databases
- COMIC BOOK
A Searchable Research Guide of Comic Book Information.
Comic Book Check Lists, Creator Information, Comic Book Price Guide and Comic Book Art.
- ERIC
This connection
leads to the Educational Resource Information Center database.
It includes citations for journal articles and original research
(ERIC Documents) on all aspects of education.
Graduation Speeches
Libraries (Public, Community College, University, Government)
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- Fedworld
This site is a comprehensive central access point for locating
and ordering government information. It is operated by the National
Technical Information Service (NTIS), and it offers access to
over 130 government bulletin boards (many of which are not otherwise
available via the Internet), Web pages and databases covering
a wide range of subject areas.
- Full-text
state statutes and legislation on the Internet
This site provides links to sites containing
the full-text of state constitutions, statutes, and legislation.
It is arranged alphabetically by state.
- Google
Uncle Sam
A search engine developed at Stanford University which indexes
U.S. government Internet sites.
- National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States :
an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional
legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late
2002, is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the
circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks,
including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks.
The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed
to guard against future attacks.
- State
Government Information
- US
Federal Government Agencies Directory
This site links to federal government offices of all kinds.
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What Happened on my Birth Date
- On
This Day in History from The New York Times
- Today
in History from The Library of Congress American Memory Project
- This Day in
History from the History Channel
- This Day in
History from Infoplease.com
- Scope Systems Webpage
- How
Many Days Old Are You?
Enter your date of birth. For example, if your birthday is the
3rd July, 1988, you would enter 03 07 1988, and then click on
"Calculate Duration".
- Yarranet: On
This Day
- DMarie Time Capsule
Enables users to create printable "Time Capsules" for any date
in history from 1800 to 2001, although "data for the years 1800
-1875 is probably spotty."
- Ambit's Today
in History
Daily listing of political, sports, musical, and other historical
events and milestones
- TNL.net
Lists birthdays of famous people and events for every day of the
year
- HistoryOrb.com
Searchable archive of important events, famous births and deaths
spanning hundreds of years. Articles on specific historical events
and broad trends
- Those Were the Days
Summary of news factoids, famous birthdays, and popular music
on this day in history; updated weekly
- Brainy History - Today
in History
Find out what happened on each day in history. Thousands of events
going back 2000 years
- Today
in Radical History
Timeline showing radical events on the day they occurred
- Encarta: On This Day in History
Daily listing of political, sports, musical, and other historical
events and milestones
- Today in the
History of Psychology
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Biography
- Biography.com
A searchable
collection of short biographies for contemporary personalities.
Literary Criticism
- Gale Literary
Index
This is an index to all of the volumes published by
Gale. Searchable by author or title, it will direct you to particular
volumes. Then, use Voyager (OPAC) to determine if the Library
owns that volume.
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OTHER REFERENCE SOURCES
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Assistive Media
Providing audio access to reading materials for anyone with a reading access barrier. Talented volunteers record magazine articles and other short works which are then available for download or in our podcast. There are over 800 recordings from magazines like The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and Wired.
- The Infography
The research recommendations of professors and librarians. Library
users can ask professors and librarians, or they can ask search
engines, "What are the best sources of information about
this subject?" A subject specialist knows the answer. An
engine does not.
- Digital Librarian:
A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web
An excellent directory of online resources, organized by topic,
and maintained by a librarian. Although most of the many links
are only briefly annotated, the "see" and "see
also" references assist searchers. The simplicity of the
page makes it load quickly, and this is a good starting place
for new Web searchers and librarians alike.
- Free-Cliffnotes.com
Over 28,000 free cliff notes, essays, reports, and research projects
for students.
- NetLingo
"Net lingo" as it is known, is the "talk of the Internet", the "cyber speak," the new terms and technology and companies and products that have sprung out of the creation and community of the Internet. Hundreds of new words have emerged since the christening of the Web and millions of people who use the Internet for personal and professional reasons have had to learn, quite literally, a new language.
- RockWisdom.com
"An online reference book of over 12,000 song quotes," arranged
by broad topics and searchable by keyword and artist.
- Sparknotes
Spark Note Study Guides cover a variety of topics (Literature,
Math, etc.). The Spark Notes Literature titles are similar to
Cliffs Notes. Some (not all) are available online for free (student
will have to sign in on the website and pick a password in order
to read them online). So if a student needs a study guide and
we don’t have it, or, if they don’t want to come to the library
to read ours, they can read it online for free.
- Country Studies
This website contains the on-line versions of books previously
published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the
Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program
sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army.
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Almanacs
Aneki.com
Excellent site about information on world regions
(drawback to site: lots of pop-ups and ads).
Information
Please
The Information Please Almanac is a good resource to use for quick
facts on sports, entertainment, disasters, societal trends, inventions, and
much more. It is searchable, but browsing through the various categories is
very easy and direct.
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Thesauri
Style Manuals
-
Writer's Handbook
Provides examples of the major styles of
documentation including APA,
MLA
and
Chicago/Turabian. Guidelines for citing electronic sources
are also available.
- APA Style
The American Psychological Association has provided information
and examples for citing material specifically from the World Wide
Web on its site. The examples included are for information found
on a Web site, in an e-mail, and articles from electronic databases.
- A+ Research & Writing
Everything you need to know about choosing a topic, finding a
focus, gathering and organizing information, forming a thesis
statement and writing a paper.
- Rules
for Writers
Click on "Research and Documentation Online"
for information on using MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE documentation
styles. Includes information on in-text citations or endnotes,
documenting sources in a bibliography, manuscript format, and
includes sample pages showing each style.
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Writing Guidelines for Science Students
Guidelines and sample
formats for laboratory reports, progress reports, proposals and
other written work expected from scientists.
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- Letter
from Birmingham Jail
This is the full audio recording from
"Letter From Birmingham Jail", and the full text of
"Letter From Birmingham Jail" by Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. This document is in Adobe PDF format.
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