• Abbreviations
• Almanacs and Fast Facts
• Arts and Music
• Associations
• Awards/Prizes
• Books, Periodicals, and Publishing
• Business
• Calculators
• Calendars, Clocks/Times
• Children, Teachers & Parents
  

• Consumer Information
• Current Events On the Web
• Dictionaries/Thesauri
• Directories
• Education
• Encyclopedias
• Genealogy, Biography and Archaeology
• Government
• Grant Resources
• Health/Medical

• History (General)
• Language and Literature
• Law
• Libraries
• Maps/Driving Directions
• Political Science and Government
• Quotations
• Science, Technology and Engineering
• Statistics

Internet Public Library Reference Center * Other Reference Sites * In the News

Abbreviations

• Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government
• Acronym Finder
• Journal Abbreviation Sources

• Farmers' Almanac
• Old Farmers' Almanac
• Open Directory Project, Gary Price
• Infoplease.com

Arts and Music

• Art Encyclopedia
• Art History
• Image Finder
• Internet Movie Database
• AllMusic.com

Associations

• The Foundation Center
• Associations on the Net
• Private Foundations

Awards/Prizes

• Academy Awards
• Grammy Awards (Viewed best with Internet Explorer browser)
• Medal of Honor Awards
• Pulitzer Prize

Books, Periodicals, and Publishing

• Bartleby.com (Great Books Online)
• Bibliomania (Free Online Literature with more than 2000 Classic Texts)
• ClassicReader.com (Read, search, and annotate great works of literature by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy, Shakespeare, and many others. New works are added to the collection on a regular basis.)
• FindArticles.com (Free archive of full-text articles dating back to 1998 from over 300 titles)
• Internet Public Library (Link Recommendations. Rather than continuing to maintain its own index of online texts, the IPL is now pleased to recommend a number of other worthwhile resources for this information. )
• The Invisible Library (An online a collection of books that only appear in other books)
• National Academy Press - Full Text Books
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
• Online Books Page (Books listed and searchable by Library of Congress call number category)
• Periodical Titles in OCLC FirstSearch (Find specific periodical titles in FirstSearch databases or to generate lists of titles for those databases)
  
• The Online Books Page -Full Text Books and More (University of Penn)
  • New Listings Daily (Check here for newly listed full text materials)
• Project Gutenberg (In operation since 1971. Now updated daily, this site offers free downloads of classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries.)
• PubList
• University of Michigan Full Text Books Online (1800 – 1925)

Business

• Business Internet Resources (Library of Congress, Business Reference Service)
• Fortune 500
• Investor Words Dictionary
• International Trade Data
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
• Zagat Survey (Subscription needed, but so popular and useful)

Calculators

• Calculators On-Line Center
• Measure 4 Measure

Calendars, Clocks/Times

• Clocks
• Earth Calendar (A daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world)
• Perpetual Calendar
• Timeticker

Children, Teachers & Parents (Links)

• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (Ben's Guide serves as the educational component of GPO Access, GPO's service to provide the official online version of legislative and regulatory information. This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. )
  • U.S. Government Websites for Kids (Browse U.S. Government Websites for Kids alphabetically, by agency or subject)
    
• Federal Resources For Educational Excellence (More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE web site.)
  
• FirstGov for Kids (This site provides links to Federal kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations all grouped by subject.)
  
• The Library of Congress Learning Page (The "front door" to more than 100 American Memory Collections! Here is a "teacher's eye view" of over 7 million historical documents, photographs, maps, films, and audio recordings. You will find lessons, features, activities, and tips and tricks for using theese collections in the classroom or any teaching/learning environment for k-12 learners.)
• Library of Congress Live! (Combining the vast historical treasures from the Library's collections with music, dance and dialogue)

Consumer Information

• Federal Consumer Information
• Kelly Blue Book (This online guide provides free values and pricing on new and used cars. New car pricing includes invoice, MSRP and New Car Blue Book Values)

Dictionaries and Thesauri

• Links and Indexes to Online Dictionaries
• American Heritage® Dictionary on Yahoo!
• Dictionary.com
  • Reference.com
• Language Dictionaries and Translators
• OneLook Dictionaries
• Yahoo Dictionaries
• English Language Dictionaries
• American Heritage Book of English Usage
• Merriam-Webster Online
• Thesauri
• Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
• Specialized Dictionaries
• ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
• Online Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols
• Genealogy Dictionary
• The Jargon Dictionary
• whatis?com (IT-related words)

Directories

• Associations
  • Associations on the Net
  • The Foundation Center
  • Grants and Related Resources
  • Scholarly Societies Project
• Codes
  • Area Code Decoder
  • Zip Code Lookup
• Federal Government
  • National Contact Center
    • Federal Government Blue Pages
    • Finding Military Personnel
• General
• AT&T AnyWho Info (includes toll free, reverse telephone lookup)
• SearchBug.com--PeopleFinder (includes reverse telephone and address lookup)
• Switchboard
• Telephone Directories on the Web (includes international directories)
• Search Systems (Search over 10334 Free Searchable Public Record Databases)
• Yahoo People Search
• Internet Directories (Organized by library classification schemes)
  • CyberDewey
  • KidsClick Dewey (Web search for kids by librarians)
  • Net Sites by Numbers
• Yellow Pages
• Ameritech Smart Pages (Yellow and White)
• SuperPages
• AllPages.com (AllPages.com provides an online national "yellow pages" directory for all the US States.)

Education

• College and University Rankings
• Educators Reference Desk (Formerly AskERIC)
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Peterson's Guide to Colleges and Universities

Encyclopedias

• Assorted Encyclopedias Online
• Britannica.com
• Encarta.com (MSN)
• Encyclopedia.com
• Encyclopedia Mythica: An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend

Genealogy, Biography, and Archaeology

• Family Search
• Genealogy Dictionary
• Genealogy Gateway
• Local History and Genealogy (Library of Congress listing of Internet Resources)

Grant Resources

• Arts Over America: Major Grant Makers to Arts and Culture
• Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
• The Foundation Center
• Grants and Related Resources from Michigan State University
• Grants.gov Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies.
• Schock's Guide for Educators
• US Small Business Administration Federal Grant Resources

Health/Medical

• Complete Home Medical Guide (Columbia University)
• Health/Medical Resources (Library of Congress, Science Reference Service)
• Intelihealth
• MedLIne Plus
• Merk Manual: Medical Information
• Rxlist

History (General )

• HyperHistory Online
• Outline of American History

Language and Literature

• Aesop's Fables Online
• Grammar
  • Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Quoteland
• Style Guides
  • APA - Electronic Reference Formats
  • Using CBE Style (from Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources)
  • Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources
  • NARA - Citing Records in the National Archives of the United States

Law

• ABA Network Lawyer Locator
• AllLaw
• FindLaw

Libraries

• Federal Depository Libraries (Federal Government publications and other information products are made available for free public use in Federal depository libraries throughout the United States.)
• Presidential Libraries (National Archives and Records Administration)
• Public Libraries (with links to national, state and university libraries)
• Public Library Locator (Department of Education)
• State Libraries (Library of Congress)

Maps

• Atlapedia Online
• MapQuest (with driving directions)
• World Fact Book

Political Science and Government

• Elections 2004

• Government
  • GPO Access
  • FirstGov
  • State and Local Governments
• Politics
  • Congressional Biographical Directory
  • Congress.org
  • Contacting the Congress
  • Crisis in Iraq (Sources on the Web)
  • The Fifty (50) State Page (2002 STATE ELECTIONS INFORMATION)
  • Politics.com
  • Project VoteSmart
  • POTUS: Presidents of the United States
  • THOMAS (Legislative Information) Library of Congress
  • U.S. House of Representatives
  • U.S. Senate
• September 11, 2001 and Homeland Security
• 9/11 Archive: (The Library of Congress, in collaboration with the Internet Archive, WebArchivist.org and the Pew Internet & American Life Project, has created a collection of digital materials known as the September 11 Web Archive.)
• 9/11 Today in History (Library of Congress - Today in History Database)
• Air University Library Bibliographies: Hot Topics and News Releases
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Homeland Security & Defense
  • Operation Enduring Freedom
• Department of Homeland Security (Legislation, Speeches, Background, and more)
• Legislation Related to the Attack of September 11, 2001 (Library of Congress - THOMAS Database)
• Library of Congress, Federal Research Division: Terrorism Studies
• Portals to the World: Selected Internet Resources, Terrorism
• Remembering 9/11: Witness and Response (September 11 Acquisitions at the Library of Congress)

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations

Science, Technology and Engineering

• General
  • How Stuff Works
• Science & Technology Internet Resources (Library of Congress, Science Reference Service)
  • AGRICOLA (Agricultural Online Access: National Agricultural Library bibliographic database)
• Weather
  • National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  • The Weather Channel
  • Weather Underground

Statistics

• American FactFinder
• FedStats (The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies)
• Statistical Resources on the Web
• Statistics.com

Other Reference Sites

Librarian's Index to the Internet (Very Comprehensive)

• Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites (Library of Congress, Main Reading Room)
• Homework Center by Info Please
• Internet Public Library Reference Center
• Internet Resources From the Learning Page (Library of Congress-Great for Educators)
• LibrarySpot
• Net Sites By the Numbers (Web sites categorized by Dewey Decimal number system)
• Reference at Your Desk -- Archives Library Information Center
• Refdesk
• Research Tools
• Today in History (Library of Congress)
• WWW Virtual Library
• Xrefer

IN THE NEWS: Web Sites and Search Engines

• Web Sites
  • HeadlineSpot
  • The Library Today (Library of Congress News and Events)
  • NewsLink
• Search Engines
  • AllTheWeb News Search
  • Moreover (Real Time News Search Engine)

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