Thomas J. Garland Library
VIRTUAL REFERENCE DESKS
Comprehensive Reference Databases
CREDO REFERENCE Over 290 titles and 3 million entries from world class electronic reference books on a variety of topics. BETTER than Wikipedia!
Associations
Foundation Center, provides assistance
in grant writing...
The
Scholarly Societies project lists international academic and
scholarly societies...
Biographies
Biography, from A&E--covers
20,000 individuals...
Biographical Dictionary,
has entries for 24,000 people...
Demographics
American Fact Finder, from the Census Bureau, offers extensive demographic information and
has a search engine...
World Flag Database...
Zip Code
Directory, from the USPS...
Holiday
Festival.com, is a worldwide holiday and festival site...
InfoNation
allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for
the member states of the United Nations...
Pew/Internet: Pew Internet & American Life
project Essential site for searching for information on the impact of
the internet on life in America from 2000-present.
Dictionaries
yourDictionary.com,
formerly A Web of Online Dictionaries, covers 100+ languages...
Acronyms and Abbreviations...
Merriam-Webster's OnLine Dictionary...
OneLook Dictionaries, the Faster
Finder...
WebSonar,
lets you type in a phrase, say from a play or poem, and find out where
it came from. Amazing!
Encyclopedias & Almanacs
NEW! Citizendium
A Web 2.0 project that aims at credibility and quality of information and
involves contributions from lay persons and credentialed experts alike.
All articles are signed by real names and all are required to register before
contributing.
Infoplease.Com, offers full-text
versions of "Information Please Almanac," "Information Please/ESPN Sports
Almanac," "Information Please/A&E Entertainment Almanac," the "Columbia
Encyclopedia," and the "Information Please Dictionary."
Tennessee Encyclopedia the online version of The Encyclopedia of Tennessee History and Culture.
bigchalk-The Education Net work,formerly
Homework Central.com...
Encyberpedia
is extensive...
Wikipedia online community
encyclopedia. This dynamic work in progress is a good place to begin
gathering information on a topic but should not be used as a primary source of
information for research papers. Students are also encouraged to visit
Citizendium.
Measurement & Conversion
Megaconverter, converts
and calculates units of mass, weight, volume, length, time, speed, power,
energy, force, density, pressure, etc.
Learn2.com, formerly Learn Everything
will teach you about almost anything...
Postage Rates,
from the U.S.P.S....
Xenon Lab's Universal Currency
Converter...
Quotations
Bartlett's, for quotations...
Good Quotations
by Famous People, (who said "I would have made a great pope?"
Answer at bottom of this page at *)...
The Quotations Page...
Reference Desks
Bartleby
Electronic Reference Sources,
via "Yahoo" Library...
Emory Law
Library Electronic Reference Desk...
Martindale's
"The Reference Desk" is updated weekly....
Quick
Reference--University of Texas at Austin...
ITools, includes a variety of
web-based references from the CIA World Fact Book to biographical dictionaries...
THOR:
The Virtual Reference Desk at Purdue University...
RefDesk.Com
April '04 PC World Names Refdesk: "Best Reference and News Resource"
Internet Public Library maintained
through the Univ. Of Michigan School of Library and Information Science.
Statistics
FedStats, statistics from
60+ U.S. government agencies...
Statistical Resources on
the Web sponsored by the Univ. Of Michigan's Documents Center
U.S. Statistical Abstract
data...
*Richard Nixon
Note: Some additional sources for documents are listed in the Political Science section of the "Links Library."