General Sources Selected for a Virtual Library

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations 10th Edition.

• Birds of North America detailed and scientific information covering each of the 716 species of birds that nest in the US and Canada.

• Braintrack The World's most complete Education-Index. Over 5500 Links to Higher Educational Institutions in 161 Countries.

• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments

• CIA World Factbook

• Columbia Granger's World of Poetry 190,000 full-text poems.

• Currency Exchange - Universal Currency Converter provided by Xenon Laboratories.

• EDGAR U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission corporation filings (10-K, 10-Q etc.)

• FinAid the Financial Aid Information Page. This page provides a free, comprehensive, independent, and objective guide to student financial aid.

• Frequently Asked Questions on the Web can search for frequently asked questions (and answers to them) by keyword or quickly browse by newsgroup hierarchy.

• HEIR - Higher Education Institution Registry sponsored by the Centre for International University Cooperation (SIU] contains information on about 7.000 institutions of higher education worldwide.

• Hoover's Online Features Masterlist Plus company database

• Human Rights Library a combined effort of the University of Minnesota Law Library and West Publishing.

• SIRS Web Resource Center Subject tree of Web links arranged by SIRS, Inc.

• Local Times Around the World

• Measure 4 Measure is a guide to Web-based calculators.

• National Debt

• Peterson's Education Center

• PollingReport.com provides trends in American public opinion.

• Project Diana the international archive of human rights legal documentation.

• Publisher's Catalogs Home Page

• Pulitzer Prize Winners

• refdesk.com "Refdesk is free and family friendly. The site is the single best source for facts on the Net; a one-stop site for all things Internet: news, weather, sports, reference, encyclopedia, facts on file, dictionaries and encyclopedias, tutorials, search engines, Windows Operating Systems Resources, free stuff, games and much more."

• Scholarly Societies Project links to scholarly society Web pages or gophers which meet the University of Waterloo Library's selection guidelines. It excludes state or local chapters of larger societies and some selective institutes.

• The Secular Web is an index of humanist, atheist, agnostic and other miscellaneous resources sponsored by the Internet Infidels.

• Sun and Moon Rise and Set [U.S. Naval Observatory)

• Tax Forms Replicas of the official IRS forms. Most can be printed, filled out, and filed with the IRS. Includes link to download Adobe Acrobat Reader necessary to view the forms

• Excite - Travel Travel information and more.

• Treasures from Europe's National Libraries is a virtual exhibition with descriptions and images of treasures from all over Europe, going back as far as the 8th century.

• United States Postal Service (USPS) Includes postal rates and Zip+4 database

• Postal Abbreviations

• WeatherNet was created by the Weather Underground of the University of Michigan and has links to hundreds of other weather sites.

• The Weather Channel's home page

• CNN's Weather

• U.S. Weather Maps

• WebElements is an online periodic table. Two versions are available, a Professional edition and a Scholar's Edition.

• World Flags Database is maintained by Graham Bartram.

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