Reference Resources

Awesome Library: Access educational resources for children, teens, teachers, librarians, and college students. This site includes links to language translators, curricula, lessons, and much more.
Ask Oxford: Use this site to access a dictionary, a slang dictionary, quotes, word games, and more.
Bartleby: This is THE internet quick reference library. Great for finding quotes, full texts to classics, etc., from a wide range of sources including the King James Bible, the American Heritage® Book of English Usage, Gray's Anatomy, the Oxford Shakespeare, the Columbia Gazetteer, the Harvard Classics and Shelf of Fiction, and much more.
BrainyQuote: Find quotations quickly by author or topic using this site.
Citing Government Publications (A General Guideline): Use this site to find appropriate styles for citing government publications.
Collective Terms for Groups of Animals: Use this Oxford dictionaries' page to find the correct collective terms for groups of animals.
Department of Labor: Access statistics regarding employment, productivity, the Consumer Price Index, the Employment Cost Index, Producer Price Index, and more.
Ethnolog: Ethnolog provides a comprehensive listing of information and resources on the world's languages.
Findlaw: Findlaw is a virtual resource for legal information.
Foriegn Service Institute (FSI) Language Courses: This site provides foreign language courses developed by the United States government and are in public domain.
Government Information Online: Ask a government documents librarian about government information you are seeking. This site is staffed by depository librarians around the country.
Hearth: This Cornell University project provides information on the history of home economics, including scholarly research in areas such as child development, family economics and industries association with the home.
How Stuff Works: HowStuffWorks is a subsidiary of Discovery Communications and is a source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. It was founded by North Carolina State University Professor Marshall Brain in 1998.
Intute: This UK site offers high quality Internet resources from arts, sciences, humanities, social sciences, and more.
Librarian's Index to the Internet: This site links to everything under the sun as only a librarian could devise. Just check out "Politics" under "Government & Law". This site also links to dictionaries by subject matter.
Library Spot: Another great resource page, well organized. A good place to begin to find the answer to almost any question. Check out the link to Museum Spot for fun.
Michigan eLibrary: Use this site to link to some of the best pathfinders on the net.
MIND: Use the Modern Inventors Documentation site to search for information regarding inventors. Access to finding aids of the National Museum of American History Archives Center is also provided.
Occupational Outlook Handbook: Use this resource to determine the expected job prospects, working conditions, training and education needed, and earnings for occupations.
Omniglot: This page provides information regarding writing systems and languages of the world, including alphabets, numerals, useful phrases, and more.
Online Library of Liberty (OLL): This is one of the best sites on the Internet for arts and humanities. The mission of the OLL is "to provide thousands of titles about individual liberty, limited constitutional government, and the free market, free of charge to the public, for educational purposes." The library contains texts and essays and educational tools about texts and authors are available in the Forum section of the web site. Materials are sorted by subject, period, and authors. MARC records are also available. Access such materials as Tocqueville's Critique of Socialism or explore Alexander Hamilton on Executive Power and Liberty.
Perseus: Perseus is an evolving database for humanities resources administered by Tufts University.
Philosophy Around the Web: This page, kept by Dr. Peter J. King of Pembroke College, Oxford, provides access to philosophy resources by topic and individual philosopher. Dr. King also provides links to philosophy resources regarding distance learning, journals, individuals' pages, and more.
PINAKES: Use the UK gateway to educational resources listed by subject headings from a cross section of disciplines including art, business, science, environment, humanities, geography, and much more. One of the best resource sites on the web.
Project Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg provides access to full text public domain books and public domain sheet music. You can down load them or read them on line. Many books are also available in audio format.
Rootsweb: Use this page for genealogy research.
Search Systems.net Public Record Directory: Use this site to search public records databases for everything from adoptions, sex offenders, and property to vehicle safety.
Social Security Death Index: Use this Rootsweb database to find if someone is deceased.
Statistical Abstract of the United States: Use the Abstract to access an authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Statistical Resources on the Web: This statistical gateway maintained by the University of Michigan provides links to information from agriculture to weather.
Virtual Reference Shelf: This site contains web resources compiled by the Library of Congress.