Reference Desk

General Reference   Almanacs   Atlas   Dictionaries and Thesauri   Biographical  Government Information  Calculators and Conversion   Periodic Table   Quotations 

General Reference                  back to top

Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org

High School Hub http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm

Homework Spot http://homeworkspot.com

Library Spot http://libraryspot.com

 

Almanacs                                 back to top       

Afro-American Almanac http://www.toptags.com/aama/

U.S. Census site http://www.census.gov/index.html

Atlases                                 back to top

Perry Casteñeda Map Collection http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/index.html

United Nations Cartographic Section http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/

Places in the News http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/plnews.html

National Geographic’s Map Machine http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/

 

Dictionaries & Thesauri              back to top                

YourDictionary.com http://yourdictionary.com (multiple languages)

Translations http://www.freetranslation.com/

Merriam Webster online with audio prnuciation http://www.m-w.com/

Biographical                           back to top

Biography.com includes video clips with many bios http://www.biography.com/

PBS Biographies from PBS tv with clips from programs such as NOVA http://www.pbs.org/neighborhoods/history/#bio

Who2? http://www.who2.com/

 

Calculators and Conversion   back to top

Universal Currency Converter http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Calculator.com http://www.calculator.com/

Periodic Table                             back to top

Los Alamos National Laboratories http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/default.htm

Visual Elements http://www.chemsoc.org/viselements/

Quotations                                    back to top

Bartleby (combined quote index search) http://www.bartleby.com/quotations/

QuoteLand http://www.quoteland.com