Useful Web Reference Sites

• Maps - all kinds of maps, from the Phila. Inquirer, by Joyce Kasman Valenza
  • Mapquest
  • Maps on US
  • MapBlast
  • Yahoo maps
  • National Geographic maps
  • Houghton Mifflin's Education Place Outline Maps
  • U.S. Geological Survey, What Do Maps Show, grades 5 thru 8
  • Social Studies School Services Geography/Social Studies
  • Geo-Globe: Interactive Geography!
  • State Department's Geographic Learning Site
  • Mathematics of Cartography
  • GIS for everyone
  • National Atlas of the U.S.
  • Library of Congress Map Collection
  • Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection
  • David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
  • Historical Atlas of the 20th Century
  • Geography Home Page
  • The TopoZone is the Web's center for recreational and professional topographic map users. We've worked with the USGS to create the Web's first interactive topo map of the entire United States.
• Some Weather Web Winners - from the Phila. Inquirer, by Reid Kanaley
  • Weatherbug
  • Old Farmer's Almanac
  • Weather Extremes
  • Weatherplanner - long range forecasts
  • National Weather Service
  • Weather.com
  • Subterranean Homesick Blues - Here are the lyrics to the song in which Bob Dylan dismisses the weather man

• Northern Light  - With its Web index, free citations, full-text sources, and sophisticated sorting, Northern Light is a must try for all information professionals.
• Study Web  - over 73,000 web sites rated and catalogued
• ResearchPaper.com  - the Web's largest collection of topics, ideas, and assistance for school related research projects.
• HotSheet: Web Quick Reference - More than 400 carefully selected premier sites in every area of reference
• Scholes Library Electronic Reference Desk - A staggering collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses, maps, current news, and historic documents
• PCL Map Collection
• US Department of State
• Bureau of the Census - The government's impressive repository of social, demographic, and economic information, browsable by subject or searchable by keyword
• Occupational Outlook Handbook 2000-01 Edition - is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives.  Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
• Excite travel - travel info, air fares, rental cars, lodging
• 50States.com - States and capitals
• POTUS: Presidents of the United States (Internet Public Library) - Background information, election results, cabinet members, highlights of the administration and links to further information
• Presidents of the United States (also first ladies) - Information, quotations, and inaugural addresses provided by the popular White House site
• Statistical Abstract of the United States - Official statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau
• Biographical Dictionary - This dictionary includes more than 25,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.
• Biography.com - Provides brief biographies through its searchable database from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - The searchable database of passages, phrases, and proverbs
• My Virtual Reference Desk - Fast access, intuitive and easy navigation and comprehensive content, rationally indexed
• The Library of Congress
• Smithsonian Institution
• Encyberpedia: The Living Encyclopedia from Cyberspace
• Research-it! - an amazing collection of forms-based tools
• Learn2.com - a family reference site
• Dogpile - all results, no mess

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