Reference Links: Quick Reference/General Reference
Ibiblio: The Public's Library and Digital Archive
www.ibiblio.org
ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including
software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural
studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain
and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.
The National Map
http://nationalmap.gov/
This service of the U.S. Geological Survey provided national mapping
imagery for the United States without requiring software to be downloaded.
Maps can be customized with different layers of information.
Bartlett's Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Contains over 11,000 searchable quotations from the 1919 edition of
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory offers relief
maps of each state showing elevation of landforms, with or without county
boundaries, as well as satellite images. Large-scale 1895 state maps showing
railroad lines are included.
DeskRef 500: Best Sources for Quick Answers
http://www.rcls.org/deskref/
The Ramapo Catskill Library System has created a subject driven guide to
five hundred quick answer sites on the web.
Start Spot:
www.startspot.com
This site offers selected subject directories in areas such as
employment, homework, genealogy, as well as cultural and recreational
topics. Each of the fourteen directories follows the same user-friendly
format.
Refdesk.com refdesk.com
An extensive directory site offering links to dictionaries, conversion
calculators, translators, rankings for colleges and hospitals, current news
and more.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
This site is sponsored by the Bureau of Justice and has statistics
pertaining to crime and justice and spans areas from local to nationwide.
Crime, law enforcement, corrections, prosecution, and more are contained on
this site.
Missouri Social and Economic Demographic County Fact
Sheets
www.oseda.missouri.edu/countypage/
This site transforms public data into useful information.
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