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Acronyms Acronym & Abbreviation List http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index.html Acronym Finder http://www.acronymfinder.com/ Almanacs CIA World Factbook http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ Culural/statistical information around the world. CNN Daily Almanac http://cnn.com/almanac/daily/ Newsworthy events. Includes archives. Computer Almanac http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bam/www/numbers.html Maintained by: Brad A. Myers, Human Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. 50states.com - States & Capitals http://www.50states.com/ Demographic, geographic & historic facts on states & capitals. Information Please Almanac http://www.infoplease.com/ The Old Farmers Almanac http://www.almanac.com/ "The Old Farmer's Almanac has published useful information for people in all walks of life: tide tables for those who live near the ocean; sunrise tables and planting charts for those who live on the farm; recipes for those who live in the kitchen; and weather predictions for those who don't like the question of weather left up in the air." Associations ASAE- Gateway to Associations http://www.asaenet.org/cda/asae/associations_search/1,3200,MEN3,00.html Lists associations on the web. You can search by industry or geographically. Associations on the Net- IPL http://www.ipl.org/ref/AON/ Lists over 2000 internet sites on professional and trade associations, broken down by subject. Idealist http://www.idealist.org/ Directory of nonprofit and volunteering resources / associations on the Web. Biographies Biography.com http://www.biography.com/ Brought to you from A&E. Biography Center http://www.biography-center.com/ Contains 10.719 biographies- 5362 are in English. Biographical Dictionary http://s9.com/biography/ Includes more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. Congressional Biographical Data http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp Search for representatives, senators by name, position & state. Congressional Directory for the United States http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/index.html Biographical information on U.S. Senators and Representatives in the 104th-106th Congresses (1995-2000) Nobel e-Museum http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/index.html Search on nobel prize winners from 1901 until today. Nom de Guerre: The Real People's Real Name Resource of Pseudonyms & Aliases http://www.irregardless.net/realname/ Listing of individuals in Entertainment, Literature, History (alphabeltical llisting). ECHO: The Virtual Center for Science and Technology http://echo.gmu.edu/center/ Exploring and collecting History online. Dictionary American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language http://www.bartleby.com/61/ Contains over 350,000 entries and meanings. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm The OnLine Language Center. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/webster.form.html (G & C. Merriam Co., 1913, edited by Noah Porter) Provided by Patrick Cassidy of MICRA, Inc., Plainfield, NJ, USA. yourDictionary.com http://www.yourdictionary.com/ Provides information from more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages. It was begun in 1995 by Dr. Robert Beard at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. Encyclopedia Altapedia Online http://www.atlapedia.com/index.html Provides country profiles of facts and data on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history and economy. Brittanica Online http://www.eb.com/ Fee based service, but has a free 7-day trial Columbia Encyclopedia http://www.bartleby.com/65/ Includes over 50,000 entries on a wide variety of topics. You can search or browse this site. Encarta® Online Home http://encarta.msn.com/ Encyclopedia -- Bartleby, Knowledge Adventure, Encarta Online, US Dept of Education, InfoPlease & Biography http://encyclopedia.langenberg.com/ Encyclopedia.com from the Electric Library http://www.encyclopedia.com/ Encyclopdeia Mythica http://www.pantheon.org/ An online encyclopedia (since 5/15/95) on mythology, folklore, and legends. "It contains over 5700 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world." Encyclopedia of the Orient http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm Encyclopedia for North Africa and the Middle East. You can search or browse by subject. Free Internet Encyclopedia http://www.cam-info.net/enc.html SYMBOLS.com http://www.symbols.com/ "SYMBOLS.com is the online version of Carl G Liungman's book Thought Signs (IOS Press, ISBN 90 5199 197 5). The subtitle of the book is "The semiotics of Symbols---Western Non-pictorial Ideograms", which fairly describes its contents." TechWeb Technology Encyclopedia http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/ Government Resources Country Studies: Area Handbook Series (by the Library of Congress) http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html Gives a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries. Fedstats: Fast Facts http://www.fedstats.gov/fast.html Provides access to the Statistcal Abstract, State & Metropolitan Area Data Book, etc. Federal Informational Resources http://www.house.gov/ Provides general government information, selected departments/agencies, and other resources. GPO Access- Finding Aids http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/tools.html Lists links to search GPO, MOCAT, SPC, GILS. Gives a link to government sites by subject. Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov/ Provides congressional information. Searchable by bill number or phrase. Grants Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance http://www.cfda.gov/ "Government-wide compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and activities which provide assistance or benefits to the American public. It contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs administered by departments and establishments of the Federal government. " Searchable database. FastWeb http://www.fastweb.com/ Free scholarship information on the Web. Includes links to University financial aid offices. Free, but has a long initial registration. Foundation Center http://fdncenter.org/ Brought to you from the publishers of the Foundation Directory. Searchable by subject. A Guide for Proposal Writing http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9891/nsf9891.htm Provides useful information on grant writing, from the National Science Foundation. Library the Best Information on the Net (BIOTN) http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/ (provided by the librarians at O'Keefe Library within St. Ambrose University) Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books- A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/don.html Brought to you from Matt Roberts and Don Etherington at the Preservation Department, Stanford University Libraries- dictionary of numerous terms relating to bookbinding and book conservation, bookbinders, conservators of library and archival materials. International Directory of Libraries http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/ HYTELNET on the Web http://www.libdex.com/ Need to look at other library catalogs? Look here! Info Connect for librarians and information scientists http://www.lwrw.com/ click on "Info Connect Directory", at this site you can "find and connect to the best professional and academic Internet sites (Web, Gopher, Telnet/Tn 3270, Newsgroups, WAIS, E-mail lists and Ftp), rich in information and resources on libraries, information centres/units, information science, librarianship, LIS products/services, online information retrieval, databases(online, CD-ROM, Internet etc),database hosts, LIS schools and LIS professional organisations". Excellent source! * The Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/ Internet Library for Librarians http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/ Database designed to provide a centralized location for library staff to locate Internet resources related to their profession. Librarian's Index to the Internet http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/ alphabetical topics, searchable, by Berkley Librarians and Library Science http://privateschool.about.com/od/forlibrarians/index.htm?terms=librarians formerly Mining Co., now part of About.com Library of Congress Home Page http://lcweb.loc.gov/ The On-line Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Geographical listing of libraries- includes the United States. National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html NUCMC is an archival and manuscript database operated by the Library of Congress. This database covers "close to 500,000 records available in the Research Libraries Information Network bibliographic database, for archival and manuscript collections in research libraries, museums, state archives, and historical societies located throughout North America. This is also where NUCMC has produced its online cataloging since 1986/87." Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources useful in scholarly electronic publishing via the Internet and other networks. Most sources have been published between 1990 - present. Maps MapQuest http://www.mapquest.com/ USGS Mapping Information: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnishome.html/ "Developed by the USGS in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates." United Nations Maps http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm Contains regional and country maps in pdf format. Not all countries available. U.S. Census Gazetteer http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer Brought to you from the U.S. Census Bureau. Search by city name (incorporated only) or ZIP Code. Contains links to Census maps (Tiger) and to information from 1990 Census data. Yahoo! Maps http://maps.yahoo.com/yahoo/ Allows you to map out street address, intersection, and entire cities & states. Miscellaneous Louisiana State University Citation Page http://www.lib.lsu.edu/ref/style.html New York Times Book Reviews http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/index.html Over 50,000 reviews from the Times since 1980. Requires (free) registration. Time Magazine Archives http://www.time.com/time/magazine/archives Archived issues of Time magazine since 1923, includes Ask the Archivist query TotalNEWS http://www.totalnews.com/ "TotalNEWS is a search engine and directory of news sites designed to increase your access to information." WorldPages.com http://www.worldpages.com/ International phone directory.