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America's Story from America's Library! - "America's Story from America's Library" wants you to have fun with history while learning at the same time. We want to put the story back in history and show you some things that you've never heard or seen before. The stuff you see comes from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The Library is the largest in the world and has millions of amazing things that will surprise you.
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library - The Asian branch of the World Wide Web Virtual Library at the Australian National University has many selected and rated resources to search through. Links to and about all the Asian countries, from Turkey to Japan, are waiting here to be discovered. If you don't have a project that needs any of this information, browse around anyway and discover some of the exciting marvels to be found.
Bibliomania - Free education library that contains hundreds of works of classic fiction, short stories, drama and poetry and dictionaries, research and religious texts. Includes the works of Shakespeare and James Joyce.
Do We Really Know Dewey? - Librarians organize books based on a number of different classification systems. One of the most popular systems for U.S. schools and public libraries is called the Dewey Decimal System. It was created by Melvil Dewey, and you can find out about him and his classification scheme here. By the way--are you confused about the difference between fiction and nonfiction? Just say to yourself, "I can only say `No' once." Then write out these little reminders: NOnfiction = True and Fiction = NOt true. This site was created by students for the ThinkQuest Junior competition.
Egypt Information Highway - One of the best sites on this country is the official Egyptian Information Highway site. You will discover a lot of background information on Egypt plus carefully sorted and arranged links to other pages.
Electric Library Personal Edition - "The Electric Library currently contains 5,277,563 newspaper articles, 697,457 magazine articles, over 419,011 book chapters, 1,523 maps, 136,419 television and radio transcripts, and 104,894 photos and images!" There's also an encyclopedia, Monarch Notes, and a fair number of reference books. You can search topics for free, but if you want to read the full text of the articles, you must become a member. There's a 30-day free trial offer.
Internet Christian Library - This is a comprehensive archive of classical christian materials available on the Internet. Find famous sermons, devotionals, Bible studies, books, christian colleges and more.
Internet Public Library Reference Center - Online Public Library with tons of resources including newspapers & magazines. Here you can ask a reference question or browse a specific section of a collection. Don't forget the IPL Pathfinders-your guide to getting started on research in numerous subject areas, both in print and online.
IPL Youth Division - Meet your favorite authors, explore math and science with Dr. Internet, read a story, or find out more about your favorite subjects.
KidsClick! Web Search - Browse almost 5,000 educational and fun Web sites in 15 different categories. All of them have been selected, categorized, and described by a team of librarians who know what kids want. How do they know? Because kids come into their libraries and ask for these types of things! There is a neat and fast search engine to get you where you want to go. You can search for sites by your reading level as well as the amount of graphics you care to load.
Library of Congress - The U.S. Library of Congress is the world's largest single collection of library materials anywhere. It would be great if everything in the library were available to be viewed on the Internet, but that hasn't happened yet. However, the folks at the Library of Congress have made a large amount of information available here. From their home page on the World Wide Web, you can view beautiful graphic images of exhibits, such as original photographs from the U.S. Civil War, or you can see replicas of documents from Columbus' voyages to America.
Library of Congress - The U.S. Library of Congress is the world's largest single collection of library materials anywhere. It would be great if everything in the library were available to be viewed on the Internet, but that hasn't happened yet. However, the folks at the Library of Congress have made a large amount of information available here. From their home page on the World Wide Web, you can view beautiful graphic images of exhibits, such as original photographs from the U.S. Civil War, or you can see replicas of documents from Columbus' voyages to America.
LibrarySpot - LibrarySpot is the library and reference information portal of the Web. Find top dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, maps, genealogy tools and much more in one user-friendly spot.
Mission and Spacecraft Library - There have been over 5,000 orbital spacecraft launches and attempted launches since the beginning of the Space Age. It's sometimes hard to imagine what various kinds of spacecraft really look like. For example, what does the Hubble Space Telescope look like? If you're curious, you can search this site by name or by mission. See if you can find the GPS satellites! You'll find out who made the equipment, when it was launched, what its mission is, its orbit, and more. This database is small but growing.
MSU Vincent Voice Library - Wouldn't it be great to be able to hear the voices of some famous people? At this site, you can. Listen to sound files of many U.S. presidents as well as brief audio of people such as Florence Nightingale and Will Rogers. Test: Teddy Roosevelt has left the building...he has left the building!
National Library of New Zealand - What will the library of the future look like? Sign onto the National Library of New Zealand's site to see. Check out how online versions of journals and books will become available in the "library without walls." But it's not all about the future. This online library has beautiful and interesting summaries of current and past local exhibits. And there are links to other New Zealand library resources, too. Here is a center of learning that reaches out to all of New Zealand's people and does it with cutting-edge flair. Of particular interest is the collection of Maori materials. The Maori are the people indigenous to the area.
Presidential Libraries - This site's mission is to help bring presidential library materials to the Internet for improved public access and to link America's past to her future. Presidential libraries from Herbert Hoover through President Clinton and Vice President Gore are included. Some of the more recent libraries have their own home pages. Other parts of the site offer presidential Web sites.
Private Passions, Public Legacy: Paul Mellon's Personal Library at the University of Virginia - Paul Mellon spent most of his life trying to figure out creative ways of giving spending money. An avid art collector, he also gave away hundreds of rare books, manuscripts, and maps before his death in 1999. This site explores the pieces he gave to the University of Virginia, including letters by Thomas Jefferson, illustrated books, and memorabilia from the Civil War.
School Library Journal Online - School Library Journal Online is the web companion to the top print resource for librarians who work with children and young adults!
SJCPL's Public Libraries with WWW Services - Public libraries all over the world are active on the Internet. Some have their library online catalogs available, others have Gopher sites, and others have great World Wide Web home pages. To see a list of many public libraries with Internet services, take a look at this site. On most of the public library sites, you'll find links to great resources on the Internet. Maybe you'll see your own neighborhood library on the list!
Smithsonian Institution Libraries - The Smithsonian Institution Libraries in Washington, D.C., are among the world's best libraries. As part of the Smithsonian, these libraries are dedicated to spreading knowledge. Take a look at this home page and see outstanding online exhibits, browse through a huge library catalog, and read unique Smithsonian electronic publications.
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