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Abbreviations

• Acronym Finder
• Journal Abbreviation Sources
• Stands4.com (Great source for acronyms and abbreviations)

Almanacs and Fast Facts

• 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
• Association Central
• 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)
• 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)
• Free Books Online (Click on "Free Books")
• Internet Public Library ELECTRONIC FULL TEXT BOOKS DIRECTORY
• National Academy Press - Full Text Books
• 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
• Historical Stock Quotes
• Investor Words Dictionary
• International Trade Data
• Stock Quotes
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

Calculators

• Calculators On-Line Center
• Conversion Factors/Unit Converter
• Measure 4 Measure

Calendars, Clocks/Times

• Clocks
• Perpetual Calendar
• Timeticker

Dictionaries and Thesauri

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

Directories

• 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
• Yellow Pages
• Ameritech Smart Pages (Yellow and White)
• SuperPages
• Codes
• Area Code Decoder
• Zip Code Lookup
• Associations
• The Foundation Center
• Associations on the Net
• Private Foundations
• Scholarly Societies Project

Education

• College and University Rankings
• Educational Resources Information Center (AskERIC)
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Peterson's Guide to Colleges and Universities

Encyclopedias

• Assorted Encyclopedias Online
• Britannica.com
• Encarta.com (MSN)
• Encyclopedia.com

Genealogy, Biography, and Archaeology

• Family Search
• Genealogy Dictionary
• Genealogy Gateway

General History

• HyperHistory Online
• History Research Online

Health/Medical

• Complete Home Medical Guide (Columbia University)
• Health/Medical Resources (Library of Congress, Science Reference Service)
• Intelihealth
• MedLIne Plus
• MEL: Health and Medical Dictionaries and Glossaries
• Rxlist

Language and Literature

• Grammar
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Style Guides
• APA - Electronic Reference Formats
• Using CBE Style (from Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources)
• Using Chicago Style (from Online! A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources)
• MLA Style
• NARA - Citing Records in the National Archives of the United States
• Citation and Bibliography Formats (from UT Austin Libraries)

Law

• ABA Network Lawyer Locator
• AllLaw
• FindLaw
• Nolo (The law in plain English. Self-help legal aid)

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)

Maps

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

Quotations

• 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

• Statistical Resources on the Web
• Statistics.com

Other Reference Sites

Librarian's Index to the Internet (Very Comprehensive)

• Alcove 9 (Library of Congress, Main Reading Room)
• Internet Public Library Reference Center
• Internet Resources From the Learning Page (Library of Congress-Great for Educators)
• LSSI Virtual Reference Desk (Library Systems and Services, LLC)
• LibrarySpot
• Refdesk
• Research Tools
• Today in History (Library of Congress)
• WWW Virtual Library
• Xrefer

Library and Information Science

o        ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science

o        Documents in Information Science (LIS Journal Articles database) North American Programs (US and Canada)

Libary and Information Science Schools

• The Catholic University of America SLIS
• Clarion University DLS
• Dalhousie University SLIS
• Dominican University (formerly Rosary College)
• Drexel University College of Information Science and Technology
• East Carolina University Dept of Broadcasting, Librarianship, and Educational Technology
• Emporia State University School of Library & Information Management
• Florida State University SLIS
• Indiana University SLIS
• Kent State University SLIS
• Louisiana State University SLIS
• McGill GSLIS
• North Carolina Central University SLIS
• Palmer SLIS
• Pratt Institute-SILS
• Rosary College GSLIS (now Dominican University)
• Rutgers School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies
• St. John's University DLIS
• Sam Houston State University DLS
• San Jose State University SLIS
• Simmons College GSLIS
• Southern Connecticut State University Department of Library Science and Instructional Technology
• SUNY-Buffalo SILS
• Syracuse University SIS
• Texas Woman's University SLIS
• University at Albany (SUNY) SISP
• University at Albany's Information Science Ph.D. Program
• University of Alabama SLIS
• University of Alberta (Canada) SLIS
• University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science
• University of British Columbia School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies
• University of California-Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems
• University of California-Los Angeles DLIS
• University of Denver LIS (scheduled for '99 accrediation)
• University of Hawaii SLIS
• University of Illinois GSLIS
• University of Iowa SLIS
• University of Kentucky SLIS
• University of Maryland-College Park CLIS
• University of Michigan SI
• University of Missouri School of Information Science and Learning Technologies
• Universite de Montreal Ecole de Bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l'information
• University of North Carolina SILS
• University of North Carolina-Greensboro DLIS
• University of North Texas SLIS
• University of Oklahoma SLIS
• University of Pittsburgh SIS
• University of Rhode Island SLIS
• University of South Carolina CLIS
• University of South Florida SLIS
• University of Southern Mississippi SLIS
• University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences
• University of Texas at Austin GSLIS
• University of Toronto Faculty of Information Studies
• University of Washington GSLIS
• University of Western Ontario Faculty of Information & Media Studies
• University of Wisconsin-Madison SLIS
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee SLIS
• Wayne State University LIS Program

Australia

• Edith Cowan University DLIS
• Queensland University of Technology School of Information Systems
• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Department of Information Management and Library Studies
• University of New South Wales, School of Information, Library, & Archive Studies

Brazil

• University Federal of Santa Catarina LIS

Croatia

• Chair of Librarianship (Department of Information Sciences) University of Zagreb

Czechoslovakia

• Charles University in Prague Institute of Information studies and Librarianship

Denmark

• Royal School of Librarianship (Copenhagen)

Finland

• Abo Abo Akademi University Dept of Information Studies
• University of Oulu (Finland) Department of Information Studies and Sociology
• University of Tampere DIS

France

• Ecole nationale superieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliotheques

Germany

• Archivschule Marburg (Germany)
• FB Bibliothek und Information (Hamburg)
• Hochschule fur Bibliotheks- und Informationswesen (Stuttgart)
• Institut fr Bibliothekswissenschaft der Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin
• Potsdam college of archive, library and information sciences

Iceland

• University of Iceland Library and Information Science Programme

Italy

• University of Parma

The Netherlands

• The Hague School of library and information science

New Zealand

• Victoria University of Wellington DLIS

Norway

• Oslo College, Library and Information Studies

Poland

• Wroclaw University Institute of Library Science

Puerto Rico

• Escuela Graduada de Bibliotecologia y Ciencia de la Informacion of the Universidad de Puerto Rico
• Programa Graduado de Educacion, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, San German Campus

Spain

• Escola Universitaria "Jordi Rubio i Balaguer" de Biblioteconomia i Documentacio (Barcelona, Spain)

Sweden

• Linköping University, LIBLAB at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA)
• Lund University DILS
• Swedish School of Library and Information Science

Switzerland

• Ecole Supérieure d'Information Documentaire

United Kingdom

• Liverpool John Moores University Information & Library Management
• Loughborough University of Technology DILS
• Manchester Metropolitan University Department of Information & Communication
• University College London School of Library Archive & Information Studies
• University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Dept of Information & Library Management
• University of Sheffield Department of Information Studies
• University of Strathclyde DIS, Glasgow
• University of Wales-Aberystwyth DILS
  International Graduate Summer School, DILS Aberystwyth