Acronyms & Abbreviations

• Acronyms & Abbreviations

A directory of links to many different acronym finders from the Michigan Electronic Library.

• The 50 States of the United States

Provides information about each of the 50 states, including the capitol city, state flag, constitution, song, geography, economy, public schools, congressional representatives, and more.  The site also provides links to more in-depth information on many topics and on U.S. territories.
• Guinness World Records

Users can browse world records by catagory using a pull-down menu or search by keyword.
• Information Please Almanac
• Old Farmer's Almanac

• International Organizations (UIA)

• Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

Search for any place name in the U.S. including cities, towns, lakes, streams, mountains, parks, schools, etc.  Information received includes county, population, elevation, latitude, longitude, variant name(s), and a map.

• Global Gazetteer

A directory of 2,880,532 of the world's cities and towns, sorted by country and linked to a map showing the location of each town.

• MapBlast! (Vicinity Corp.)
• MapQuest!
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Getty Institute)
• TopoZone

This site, produced by Maps a la carte, Inc., contains every USGS 1:100,000, 1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale map for the entire United States.

• U.S. Gazetteer

• Biographical Dictionary

A searchable biographical dictionary, containing entries for over 25,000 notable men and women.  The dictionary may be searched by names, birth years, death years, professions and other key words.

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present

A biographical guide to the more than 13,000 individuals who have served in the national legislature and Continental Congress, updated through the 105th Congress.  The database may be searched by name, position, and state.

• Biographical Information

A searchable section of Academic Universe Database.

• abebooks.com

Access to used, secondhand, rare, and out-of-print booksellers around the world.
• Alibris

Searches bookstores for used, rare and out-of-print books.
• Amazon.com
• Book Finder

Over 40 million new, used, rare and out-of-print books. A directory of bookstores worldwide.

• Occupational Outlook Handbook (Bureau of Labor Statistics)

• 164 Currency Converter

A multi-lingual Foreign Exchange calculator.  This site provides exchange rates for over 164 currencies.
• Calendar

Retrieve a calendar for any year or month & year.
• Inflation Calculator
• Online Conversion.com

"Convert just about anything to anything else." Includes converters for length, temperature, velocity, volume, weight, area, density, and many others.
• World Time Server

Gives times for locations worldwide.  The Future Event Planner function allows users to enter a location and a future date and time, and then a second location so that they can see what time it will be in Berlin when it is nine a.m. next Thursday in Raleigh.

• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language  4th edition

Contains over 90,000 entries, 70,000 audio word pronunciations (.wav format), color illustrations, language notes, and word-root appendixes.
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 10th edition
• yourDictionary.com

Provides dictionaries in over 140 languages, grammars, specialty dictionaries, thesauruses, acronyms, and more.
• Roget's Thesauri 

• AT&T Toll Free 800 numbers
• GTE Superpages

Yellow pages from GTE Corporation, based on the infoUSA database.  The site offers nationwide name searches and reverse lookup.
• Switchboard:

"The People and Business Directory," based on the infoUSA database.

• Zip Code Directory

• Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
• Handbook of Texas Online Multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association
• Nolo Legal Encyclopedia Plain-English articles on general legal topics
• Tech Encyclopedia More than 20,000 IT terms and definitions

• Library of Congress
• Libdex
Worldwide index of library homepages, library catalogs, Friends of Libraries pages, and library e-commerce affiliate links. Browse by country or browse by state.

• Recognizing Scholarly vs Popular Periodicals
• Using Primary & Secondary Sources

Statistics

• NationMaster.com An interesting tool to create graphs from global statistics, and a handy way to graphically compare nations. Based on CIA World Fact Book data

Style Guides

• Comparing MLA, APA and Turabian Style Side-by-side comparisons of MLA, APA and Turabian styles
• APA Style Preparing a list of APA references
• APA Examples Detailed examples of APA usage
• MLA Style Preparing An MLA List of Works Cited
• MLA Examples More detailed information on MLA style
• Turabian Documentation Guidelines

• FirstGov

Offers access to all 20,000 government Websites from a single central point.

• Congressional Directory for the 106th Congress
The official directory of the US Congress, it contains short biographies of each member of the House and Senate, listed by state, committee memberships, staff, contact information, state governors, Federal departments and agencies, congressional district maps and foreign diplomatic offices.

• State and County QuickFacts -- US Census

Provides frequently requested Census Bureau information at the national, state, and county level.