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General Reference Sites
- AllExperts.com
- A free Q&A site that links you to volunteer experts in a variety
of categories.
- AnyWho Directories
- Use AnyWho to find phone numbers, addresses, maps, and directions
for businesses and people in the U.S.
- Association Central
- Provides information about anything related to associations.
- Bartleby.com
- The most comprehensive reference publisher on the web meets
the needs of students, educators, and the intellectually curious.
You can search several reference works free of charge.
- CensusScope
- A tool presented by the Social Science Data Analysis Network
(SSDAN) at the University of Michigan, CensusScope provides census
data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas, represented
by charts, maps, and rankings.
- DeskRef
- A good ready reference site at which you can type in a question
or choose from several different reference categories.
- Get the Skinny
- This site was created as a Web development "hobby"
project using Census 2000 data obtained from the Census website.
It gives a nice snapshot of a geographic area, with many demographics
included. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy
of the information, errors and omissions can occur, and visitors
are encouraged to use the actual Census site instead of this one
for any serious research.
- Handspeak
- The largest, visual language dictionary online. One of its aims
is to introduce parents, prospective sign language students, and
others to sign language.
- InfoPlease
- An online almanac and reference database.
- International White and Yellow
Pages
- International inquiry for names, addresses, telephones, and
faxes.
- Internet Public Library
- The first public library on the Internet. Its mission includes
to "serve the public by finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing,
describing, and creating quality information resources."
- IPL Ready Reference Collection
- An annotated collection from the Internet Public Library, chosen
to help answer specific questions quickly and efficiently.
- Knowledge Hound
- The Web's biggest directory of free do-it-yourself tips and
tutorials, from sports to cooking to computers and much, much
more.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 6,500
Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their
usefulness to users of public libraries. It's meant to be used
by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient
guide to described and evaluated Internet resources.
- Library Spot
- A portal to the best library and reference resources on the
Web.
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- In this online language center, you can look up words in the
dictionary or the thesaurus and also play some word games.
- RefDesk
- A virtual reference desk with well-organized links to an amazing
number of sites.
- Research It!
- An online toolbox providing access to language, library, geographic,
financial, shipping and mailing, and internet tools.
- Reverse Phone
Directory
- Search by phone number in any of three directories provided.
- St.
Joseph County Public Library Hot List
- A well-organized page of links to librarian-approved web sites.
- Switchboard
- A popular easy-to-use site for finding people, businesses, products,
maps, and directions.
- Zip
Code Lookup
- USPS site for looking up ZIP+4 codes.
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