City of Grand Island Public Library

REFERENCE LINKS

Click on the bookmark of your choice from this list of valuable Internet reference sources compiled by the Help Desk staff of the Grand Island Public Library

| U.S. Government | Weather | Writing |

Address and Phone Numbers

The Ultimate White Pages - six databases in one
http://www.theultimates.com/white/

Switchboard - personal, business and e-mail addresses
http://www.switchboard.com/

Bigfoot - has both white and yellow pages as well as e-mail addresses.
http://search.bigfoot.com/

Bigyellow
http://www.bigyellow.com/

Dex Yellow Pages
http://www.dexknows.com/

United States Post Office site - good for zip codes, prices etc.
http://www.usps.gov/

Airlines toll free numbers
http://www.tollfreeairline.com/

Almanacs

Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com/

CIA-The World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Biography

A&E's Biography (over 25,000!)
http://www.biography.com/search/index.html

Presidents of the United States
http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/

First Ladies of the United States of America
http://www.historycentral.com/Bio/ladies/listing.html

Books

Bestseller Lists 1900 - 1995
http://www.caderbooks.com/bestintro.html

Shakespeare Web
http://www.enotes.com/william-shakespeare/

American Authors on the Web
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/AmeLit.html

British and Irish Authors on the Web
http://lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html

Project Bartleby Archives
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/

Amazon (online bookstore)
http://www.amazon.com/

Barnes & Noble (online bookstore)
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/

Borders (online bookstore)
http://www.borders.com/online/store/Home

Business

Google Directory-Business
http://www.google.com/Top/Business/

BusinessWeek
http://www.businessweek.com/

Wall Street ExecutiveLibrary
http://www.executivelibrary.com/index.asp

Dictionaries

A Web of Online Dictionaries (over 130 different languages)
http://www.yourdictionary.com/

Yahoo Babel Fish - Text and Web Page Translation
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

Roget's II Thesaurus
http://www.thesaurus.com/

A Variety of Dictionaries - Dictionary.com
http://dictionary.reference.com/

Education

FinAid: the Financial Aid Information Page
http://www.finaid.org/

Financial Aid Student Guide from the U. S. Department of Education
http://studentaid.ed.gov/students/publications/student_guide/index.html

Links to colleges and universities
http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/

Education Quest Foundation
http://www.educationquest.org/index.asp

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/

Encyclopedia.com (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition & Others)
http://encyclopedia.com/

Catholic Online - Encyclopedia
http://www.catholic.org/index.php

Finance

Consumer Price Index
http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.toc.htm

Forbes 500 Index
http://www.forbes.com/forbes500/

Forbes Fund Guide
http://www.forbes.com/investin

Currency Converter - Yahoo Finance
http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter

State and Local Taxes
http://www.taxsites.com/state.html

Genealogy

http://www.gilibrary.com/genealogy.html

Geography

USGS Geographical Names Information System
http://geonames.usgs.gov/

The US Gazetter with Tiger Map Server
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer

National Geographic Search
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/search.html

Library of Congress Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

Grand Island / Nebraska

Grand Island/Hall County

Central Nebraska Regional Airport
http://www.flygrandisland.com/

City of Grand Island Government Site
http://www.grand-island.com/

GrandIsland.com
http://www.grandisland.com/

Grand Island Concert Association
http://www.giconcerts.org/

Fonner Park
http://www.fonnerpark.com/

Grand Island/Hall County Convention and Visitor's Bureau
http://www.visitgrandisland.com/

Grand Island Little Theater
http://www.githeater.org/

Grand Island Public Schools
http://www.gips.org/

Grand Theater
http://www.grandmovietheatre.com/

Heartland Events Center
http://www.heartlandeventscenter.com/

Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer
http://www.stuhrmuseum.org

2-1-1 (Human Services in Grand Island/Nebraska) Get Connected. Get Answers
http://www.ne211.org

UNL-Cooperative Extension Hall County
http://www.hall.unl.edu/

Wings Over the Platte
http://www.visitgrandisland.com/page/251/

Statewide

Access Nebraska (Nebraska Public Assistance Benefits)
http://www.accessnebraska.ne.gov/

Central Nebraska Net
http://www.cenebr.net/

Official Nebraska Government Website
http://www.state.ne.us/

Nebraska Library Commission
http://nebraskaccess.ne.gov/

Nebraska Road Condition Advisory
http://doroads.nol.org/rca/

Nebraska Information Technology Commission
http://www.nitc.state.ne.us/

A Literary Tour of Nebraska
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/tour.htm

Nebraska Department of Economic Development
http://www.visitnebraska.org/

Nebraska Business Development Center
http://nbdc.unomaha.edu/

History

Explore the Amazing World of Early America
http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/index.html

HyperHistory
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Jobs

Nebraska Department of Labor
http://dol.nebraska.gov/

CareerOneStop (US Department of Labor)
http://www.careeronestop.org/

JobWeb
http://www.jobweb.com/

Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/oco/

NationJob Online Jobs Database
http://www.nationjob.com/

Monsterboard: Careers on the Web
http://www.monsterboard.com/

Law

FindLaw
http://www.findlaw.com/

Legal Information Institute - Cornell
http://www.law.cornell.edu/

Nebraska Legislature
http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/index.php

Local Issues

In its role of providing access to information, the library does not promote any particular viewpoint on various topics of interest to local and area citizens, and offers the following simply as a reflection of the variety of viewpoints on the Internet.

Magazines (Online)

Barron's
http://www.barrons.com/

Business Week
http://www.businessweek.com/

Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/

Fortune
http://www.fortune.com/

Money
http://money.cnn.com

National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

New Republic
http://www.thenewrepublic.com/

Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com/

Smithsonian
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/

Time
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/

U. S. News Online
http://www.usnews.com

Medicine / Health

American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org/

American Diabetes Association
http://www.diabetes.org/

American Heart Association
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200000

American Hospital Directory
http://www.ahd.com/

Consumer Health Resources
http://www.unmc.edu/library/consumer/

Central District Health Department
http://www.cdhd.ne.gov/home.lasso

HealthCentral Library
http://www.healthcentral.com/library/library.cfm

HealthFinder (US Department of Health and Human Services)
http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Mayo Clinic
http://www.mayoclinic.com/

Medline Plus
http://medlineplus.gov/

MedScape
http://www.medscape.com/#search

National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov/

National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/

NOAH: New York Online Access to Health (English and Spanish)
http://www.noah-health.org/

OncoLink: University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/

RxList: the Internet Drug Index
http://www.rxlist.com/

Saint Francis Medical Center
http://www.saintfrancisgi.org/index2.php

Nebraska Legislature

Senator Mike Gloor
http://nebraskalegislature.gov/senators/senator_blogs.php?SenatorID=83

News

Buenos Dias Nebraska
http://www.buenosdiasnebraska.com/

Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/

Grand Island Independent
http://www.theindependent.com/

USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/

CNN Interactive
http://www.cnn.com/index.html

Quotations

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

Land of Quotes
http://www.quoteland.com/

Statistics

Statistical Abstract of the United States
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

Fedstats
http://www.fedstats.gov/

Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

Gallop Poll
http://www.gallup.com/

Stock Quotes

Nasdaq
http://www.nasdaq.com/

Travel

How Far Is It? (as the crow flies)
http://www.indo.com/distance/

Mapquest
http://www.mapquest.com/

U. S. Government (Federal, State, & Local)

I.R.S.(Internal Revenue Service)
http://www.irs.gov/

United States Senate
http://www.senate.gov/

Senator Ben Nelson
http://bennelson.senate.gov/

State Government Publications ONLINE
http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/docs/pilot/pilot.html

Senator Mike Johanns
http://johanns.senate.gov/public/index.cfm

United States House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/

Federal Government Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/federal.html

Search Databases Online via GPO Access
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/

United States Government Manual
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
http://www.cpsc.gov/

USPTO Patent Databases
http://patents.uspto.gov/

Fuel Economy
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/

Weather

Weather Channel
http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc

National Weather Service, Hastings NE
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/gid/

Grand Island weather forecast is at
http://www.wunderground.com/forecasts/GRI.html

Writing

http://iwca.syr.edu/
"National Writing Centers Association" presents information on writing centers. Includes articles on writing centers, information on related conferences, tutor training resources, and resources for teachers of composition. Highlights e-mail discussion groups, resources for writers, related electronic and print journals, and tutor stories.

http://www.authorlink.com/
"Authorlink! For Publishers, Agents, Authors" features news and information for writers, editors, literary
agents, and publishers, presented by Multimedia Strategies in Dallas, Texas. Offers access to current news headlines related to writing and publishing. Provides previews of unpublished manuscripts and access to an agent directory. Includes classified advertisements. Links to writers' resources. Contains information about new and upcoming books, self-published books, workshops and conferences, book signings, and publishing marketing trends.

http://www.writers.net/
"WritersNet" presents a directory of Internet resources for writers, editors, publishers, and agents. Offers access to a directory of published writers and a directory of literary agents. Provides access to a search engine and to discussion areas. Links to online writing assignments in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, and children's literature.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html
"OWL Handouts" highlights the handouts from the Purdue University Writing Lab for writers. Includes information for writers on general writing concerns, writing research papers, writing in the job search, professional writing, English as a second language, parts of speech, sentence construction, punctuation, and spelling. Covers such additional topics as writer's anxiety, editing, the use of non-sexist language and writing with computers.

http://writerswrite.com/
"Writers Write" presents information for writers from Writers Write, Inc. Includes job postings for those with writing skills, message boards for writers, and graphics for writers to use. Contains research resources for writers, book and CD-ROM publishers online, a newspaper resource directory, writers' organizations, and writing schools online. Links to other writing resources.