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Electronic Reference Collections

Electronic Reference Desk from Scholes Library of Ceramics
Government Resources
InterLinks Reference Shelf
The Internet Public Library Reference Center
The 'Lectric Law Library
Ready Reference Using the Internet
Refdesk.com
Reference Resources on the Internet from UC-Berkeley
Regional Information: FLORIDA from YAHOO
Yahoo Reference Desk

Almanacs

Historic Events and Birth-Dates
Information Please Almanac
The Old Farmer's Almanac

Consumer Information

AMA Physician Select
Bank Rate Monitor
Better Business Bureau
Calculators On-Line Center
Consumer Information Center: Pueblo, CO
Consumer World
Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides
How Stuff Works
Kelley Blue Book
The Merck Manual Home Edition

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Thesauri

Acronym Finder
AltaVista's Babelfish: Translations
Artcyclopedia
Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Biographical Dictionary
Britannica.com
Columbia Encyclopedia
Dictionaries and Language Resources: International and subject dictionaries and glossaries
Dictionary.com
Ethnologue: Languages of the World
Free Internet Encyclopedia
Instrument Encyclopedia from the Music Heritage Network
Merriam-Webster Online
MLTT: MultiLingual Theory and Technology: Language Identifier
My Hebrew Dictionary
OneLook Dictionaries: The Faster Finder
Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors (De Imperatoribus Romanis)
Research-It! via iTools!
Roget's Thesaurus
Spartacus Educational, offering free encyclopedic resources including:

• Encyclopaedia of British History: 1700-1950
•First World War Encyclopaedia
•Railways: 1780-1900
•Investigating the Vietnam War
•Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920
• Encyclopaedia of East Grinstead & District

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
TechEncyclopedia
Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
A Web of On-line Dictionaries

Directories

AT&T Toll-Free Directory
BellSouth Real Yellow Pages and White Pages Online
BigYellow
Canada Yellow Pages
Colleges and Universities: Directory of international school web sites
GTE SuperPages
InfoSpace.com: The Ultimate Directory
infoUSA.com from American Business Information, Inc.
Internet 800 Directory
Museums Index from World Wide Arts Resources
Switchboard
Telephone Directories on the Web
WhoWhere? from Lycos
Yahoo! People Search
Zip Code Look-Up from the U.S. Postal Service
Zip Codes Cross References

Geographic Sources

Background Notes from U.S. Department of State
CIA World Factbook
How Far Is It? distance "as the crow flies" between two geographic locations
The Map Machine from National Geographic
MapQuest
Maps On Us
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection from the University of Texas at Austin
Xerox PARC World Map Viewer
Zip Code Look-Up from the U.S. Postal Service

Quotations

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations from Columbia University

Statistics

County and City Data Book
FEDSTATS
Stat-USA: Only accessible within the Library [Boca, Davie, Jupiter, Tower only]
Statistical Abstract of the United States
U.S. Decennial Life Tables - 1989 to 1991 from the National Center for Health Statistics

Style Manuals

APA's Recommended Electronic Reference Formats
APA Style Electronic Formats by Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey
Columbia Guide to Online Style by Janice R. Walker
The Elements of Style by Strunk and White (1918 edition)
MLA Style Electronic Formats by Dr. Mary Ellen Guffey
Writing Related Resources from Purdue's Online Writing Lab

Writing Guides

Researchpaper.com
A Guide to Writing Research Papers based on APA
A Guide to Writing Research Papers based on MLA
Footnotes and Endnotes in Microsoft Word 2002
Creating a References or Works Cited Page with Microsoft Word® from Sandhills Community College
Writing An Annotated Bibliography from University of Minnesota, Crookston Library