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General Reference - Dictionaries, Statistical Information,HealthCare Sites, United States..and other Countries Reference Information,Legal Information on the Net, College Sites and Info..and News/TV Sites.
"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
**Book Suggestion**
Quoted from website
Are you making the most
of the changes brought to the profession by the Internet?
Evolution
in Reference and Information Services
The Impact of the Internet
Edited by Di Su, MLS
c. 2002
Soft Cover ISBN: 789017237
Visit the Newseum
View todays Front pages,
of 145 Newspapers, from 24 countries
www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
See/Read What Happened
This Day in History or What is Being Observed Today
on the *4observing
page* of LibrarySupportStaff.com
Table of Contents for
Online Reference Resources
Finding out - just what the Patron Needs.
Electronic Reference Service, Resources & Guidelines
Read on InfoToday.com
What's Ahead for 2002?
- Predictions from 12 Information Industry Gurus
http://www.infotoday.com/it/jan02/whatsahead.htm
Article: My
Rules of Information
by Marylaine Block •
Editor, ExLibris, the weekly e-zine
Marylaine Block shares
her seven "codified" rules for
information professionals
to live by.
Searcher v. 10 (1) 2002
Online article
Management
by Wandering Around:
Reference Rovering and
Quality Reference Service
Guidelines for Cooperative
Reference Service Policy Manuals
www.ala.org/rusa/stnd_coop.html
The Soaring
to Excellence 2002 Jan. 18th presentation is:
Bringing Order to the
Chaos: Using Search Engines Efficiently
Presenter:
Bill Erbes, Assistant
Director of the Bensenville Community Public Library District
Check out the Link site
that supplements the presentation.
http://www.bensenville.lib.il.us/searching.htm
Use some Search Utilities
Online
& Read the latest
Search
Engine News Headlines
For interesting reports,
research news,
and statistics about
Americans usage of the Internet:
Visit http://www.pewinternet.org/
Pew
Internet & American Life Project
More interesting "stats"
on Net usage
See : Nua
Internet Surveys - Resources for "Internet Trends"
also:
visit SearchEngineWatch.com
and Yahoo's
Net Directory on "Stats"
Read the results: (**Note
this is a PDF file, 89 pgs.**)
UCLA Internet Report
Surveying the Digital
Future - Year 3
c. 2003
ccp.ucla.edu/pdf/UCLA-Internet-Report-Year-Three.pdf
Article of interest:
Farber, Miriam, and Shoham,
Snunith (2002) "Users, End-Users, and End-User Searchers of Online Information:
A Historical Overview". Online Information Review, V. 26 (2) pp.
92-100
Abstract:
Discusses the changing
relationships between information professionals - vendors, database producers,
searchers - and end-users, during the last three decades. Most of the time,
the industry was quite vague as to who exactly the end-users were, and
consequently several different definitions were used to describe the target
audience of online information systems. The needs and capabilities of the
end-user were measured conveniently through the reactions of libraries'
and information centres' personnel who were not always the most suitable
sources. The concept of the "end-user" is examined from the beginning of
the online industry in the 1970s through the menu driven systems of the
1980s and the role of the compact disk in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Related: see my page
with info on Information Seeking Behavior
Stay current with all
the latest developments and news for:
Search Engines
Check out the Email
Newsletters you can subscribe to.
Related: Stay current
with Library NEWS
Visit: Traffick.com
The guide to portals
& search engines
Choose the Best Search
for your Information Need
www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
Read or Subscribe to Mary
Ellen Bates' - Tip of the Month
She finds and/or suggests
terrific search tips and tools
www.batesinfo.com/tip.html
Read this articel on Pandia
Menu
based Web searching
Table
of Contents
| General
Search
Special Search Tools |
Articles : Fulltext | Business Reference | Conversion
Tools
Euro Conversion |
Dictionaries |
| Education Ref. Tools | Finding People | Genealogy | Government Info | Legal Ref |
| Medical Reference | News Sources | Still More Ref Sources | Travel Sources | Miscellaneous Ref |
| Library News & Ref | For Babyboomers | Hidden Web Ref | Ref Interview | Online/Live Ref |
- General Reference Sites
- Search Utilities/General
- Search Utilities/Specialty
- Search the Hidden /Invisible Web
- Dictionaries
- News Resources
- Miscellaneous Reference Sites
- The Library Reference Interview
- Library Based Reference Services
Finding out - just what the Patron Needs.
Electronic Reference Service, Resources & Guidelines
should be included here. Thank YOU!
mary@librarysupportstaff.com
Speaking of E-mail
Read the full text article:
"EMail Makes the World
Go Round"
Computers
in Libraries Nov/Dec 2000
E-mail technology really
enables
librarians to have
all sorts of relationships
with patrons from around
the world.
On a personal note:
This site and my other
websites
have put me in contact
with
Librarians & Library
Paraprofessionals
from all over the globe!
Thank YOU to each of
you who has
contacted me via e-mail
and
Touched & Changed
my Life
for the BETTER!
INTERNET TRAINING AND
LEARNING:
A GUIDE TO WEB RESOURCES
FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIANS
http://www.ala.org/rusa/mars/itlpub.html
Annotated list of Web
sites intended to provide
public librarians with
a guide to some of the
best electronic resources
available for learning
about the Internet as
well as for training
both library staff and
customers.
 |
Search WWW Search librarysupportstaff.com |
Just a personal note on "Providing Reference Service":
If "YOU" are the person
providing "Reference" information
or assistance
either in person or via
the phone,
Brush up your own People
Skills, and Remember
Listening & Smiling
are the 2 Best Skills to MASTER!
SMILE even when you answer
the phone!
and LISTEN to the person
who is asking for information
Never "rush" them, or
appear "busy", and Smile!
See my page with more
information on conducting Reference Interviews
and..Thanks for Linking
by....Mary
General All Purpose Reference Sites
Links to Most Reference Information
For Keeping Current with
Web Based Resources
You need to visit : Web
Savvy
for the "sources" to
keep you in the know.
And find out what's new
with Search Engines
Searching
& Sleuthing
Need a Reference answer "Fast"
Try Here First
: *Virtual Reference Desk*
Lots of Catergories..Lots
of Reference Sources.
See also:Indexes for Web Searches - from Yahoo
Best FREE
Reference Sites for 2000
This is an annual series
initiated under the auspices
of the Machine-Assisted
Reference Section (MARS)
of the Reference and
User Services Association (RUSA)
of ALA to recognize
outstanding reference
sites on the Internet.
Scoop's
Reference Sites Dictionaries, Online Bookstore,
Index of Book Publishers,
Farmers Almanac,
Demographic sites, History
sites Visit BUBL Information Service
Directory pages for Links to Reference Material of Interest
BUBL
LINK / 5:15
Catalogue of 12,000 selected
Internet resources
BUBL
Journals
Links to current LIS
journals/newsletters
**realted - see librarysupportstaff.com's
listing of
Library
& Information Technology journals
World
Fact Book 2000
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Internets.Com
Global link to 1,000's
of Databases.
LITA's Tool Kit for Expert Web Searchers
| GenReference | Search/General | Search/Special |
| Dictionaries | News Sources | Miscellaneous |
http://www.libraryreference.org
LIBRARY REFERENCE
SEARCH
Search Engines - General
Do a search in Google and if you come to a link
that is no longer there,
click the “cached” link at the end of the entry.
Google will retrieve a copy of the page as
indexed from its cached page archive!
|
Search WWW Search librarysupportstaff.com |
Also remember to help find website information
for sites that seem to have vanished, and left no forwarding address
check out the WAYBACK Machine
Put in the "exact" url (you must spell/type it exactly as it appeared when it was "live"
on the internet) Then if the page was archived there will be several versions of the site.
Choose the one that was last updated, and many times you will be able to find the
previous information that the site had and that you are in search of.
http://www.archive.org
See the resources From
the UC Berkeley Library
Search
Engines & Directories
Search Engines - Specialty Sites For Information
Read this Online Article:
Using
- Specialized Search Engines
Pick
a Search Engine - Guide
From Virtual
Chase
Virtual Chase pages of
interest:
Search for Company/Business
Information
and
SEARCH ENGINE GUIDE:
Business
and Industry Search Services
also
LEGAL RESEARCH GUIDE:
Intellectual
Property Law
From Search Engine Watch.com
Use
these Tips for Searching the Net
More Facts & Tips
& Howto's
Index
to tips on Search EngineWatch
The University at Albany
Libraries have constructed a useful site
How to Choose the Search
Engine or Directory -
to find something
particular.
http://library.albany.edu/internet/choose.html
Still need help with doing
Research on the Net
Visit the Researching
Librarian
Created by and for Librarians.
and see also
Research
Buzz is designed to cover the world of Internet research.
To that end this site
provides almost daily updates on search engines,
new data managing software,
browser technology, large compendiums of
information, Web directories
-- whatever.
Noted From Tricks-n-Trinkets
"The Information Highway"
Virtual
Acquisition Shelf and News Desk takes that phrase as its golden
rule and speeds
past all the pretty stuff and the silly stuff on today's
Web to deliver
information at lightening speed.
Created for
information professionals, the site offers daily synopses
of reports
from sources as wide as the Congressional Research Service to
the Professional/Scholarly
Publishing Division of the American Publishing
Association,
then links you to related articles, tools and the full
text. With
archives dating back to March 2001 and to The Virtual Chase,
for legal
research on the Web, the site is a comprehensive reference tool
for info professionals.
http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com
Search IQ
http://www.zdnet.com/searchiq/
SearchIQ provides independent
reviews and rankings to help you make
informed choices in selecting
search tools.
SearchIQ objective is
to help you
find what you are looking
for quickly and effectively.
More "Speciality Search Sites"
Argus
Clearinghouse
The Internet's Premier
Research Library
Epinions - Search for
opinions/ratings etc. on a wide variety of consumer goods,
includes books, products,
most consumer goods. Most opinions posted by average consumers.
iTools = Internet Tools: Find It, Research It, & Language Tools
XRefer
http://www.xrefer.com/
Free access to over 250,000
entries - facts, words,
concepts, people &
quotations
Encyclopedias, dictionaries,
thesauri & books of quotations
from the world's leading
publishers.
All cross-referenced,
all reliable, all in one place.
Use WebBrain
"The Smartest Way to
Search the Web"
LibrarySpot - Research any topic
InfoMine - Scholary Internet
Resource Collections
Reference
Resources
DewPoint
- The Interent Organized
by the Dewey Decimal
System
About.Com has compiled
a listing of Guides
on 500 subjects..Check
out their
A
- Z Listing
Gary
Price's Direct Search Resource Page...
This page is a growing
compilation of DIRECT LINKS
to the search interfaces
of resources that are not
easily searchable from
general search tools
Suite
101 Guides to a variety of
Topics - Organized using
Dewey Decimal System
Bartleby
- Full text Online Material
Excellent FREE Resources
- Great Books Online
Here are some FREE Online Encyclopedia Sites:
- Now ONLINE For FREE - The Complete Set of
- Let's Find Out
- EnCyberpedia
- Encyclopedia.Com
- Informationsphere - Free Online Encyclopedia
- Literary Encyclopedia & Literary Dictionary
- Encyclopedia Mythica
Britannica Encyclopedia
includes: A Guide to the Writing of Scholarly English
| Read The Literary Encyclopedia entry on Antony and Cleopatra |
Encyclopedia on Mythology, Folklore and Legend
Encyclozine
- An Encyclopedia of "Diversions"
Gallery, Puzzles, Games,
Illusions, Science, Web design,
Humanities, Space, Life,
History, Technology, Knowledge
Ever think you'll try
out for "Who wants to be a Millionaire" or Jeopardy
You may want to study
up at some of the big Trivia Sites on the Net:
Absolute Trivia Totally Trivia Search Engine.
Search for Useless Knowledge
More sites to Learn TRIVIAL Stuff
Couldn't think of another place to put this site for referenceBut just in case you ever have a patron interested in what other uses
common products they have might be useful for - check out this site:
www.wackyuses.com
CNET
The Computer Network
view and find some of
the best
"computing" knowledge
on the Internet
Articles - Full Text Online
Looking for articles from
specific magazines?
This site keeps adding
resources,
what is available to
date is still quite useful.
findarticles.com
and also MagPortal.com
Bartleby
- Full text Online Material
Excellent FREE Resources
- Great Books Online
Current
NEWS articles (includes an article on doing Research using the
Internet)
Business /Company Reference
Business.com : Business focused search engine & directory
Hoovers.Com..Directory for Business's/Companies/Industries
Search Public Records
online
www.searchsystems.net/
Over 8000 Free Searchable
Public Record Databases!
See also these sites
for Public Record Searching
www.publicrecordfinder.com
www.knowx.com
www.brbpub.com/pubrecsites.asp
Look up Information Sources
on the web.
MBA
101
Research Smarter, Network
Better
Links to unusual content
such as "Personality Tests"
Plus much information
for the "Business Minded"
Small Business Administration
Useful information &
resources
http://www.sba.gov/
1-800-U-ASK-SBA
Answers to Small Business
Questions
9:00am-5:00pm East Coast
Time, Mon-Fri.
Online Womens Business
Center
http://www.onlinewbc.gov/
Online Guide to Best Business
sites for information
Business2.com
http://www.business2.com/webguide
Search our directory of
50,000 business sites and our archives of articles from Business 2.0, Fortune,
Money, and FSB.
Need information on "ASSOCIATIONS"
Visit this InfoUSA site:
Links to Trade and Business
Associations Resources
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/trade/trassci.htm
Also search
The ASAE Gateway to Associations
Online
http://info.asaenet.org/gateway/OnlineAssocSlist.html
American Society of Association
Exectutives website:
http://www.asaenet.org/find/
Find Associations, People,
and Businesses
Looking for networking
opportunities?
Need to find a vendor
who provides services to associations?
Ever wondered who serves
on ASAE's Board of Directors or standing committees
http://www.asaenet.org/find/
Find More Association
Information/ & Links - General Catergories
From the Internet Public
Library
The IPL Associations
on the Net (AON) is a collection of over 2000 Internet sites
providing information
about a wide variety of professional and trade associations,
cultural and art organizations,
political parties and advocacy groups,
labor unions, academic
societies, and research institutions.
http://www.ipl.org/ref/AON/
Related business information
Search Bankrate.com
for the latest rates for most financial transactions
site includes information
and calculators
Also visit:
ELoan.com
http://www.eloan.com/
Converting Time, Money and Measurements (cooking & recipes tools included)
Anyone got the time in
Borneo..if it's 2 O'Clock here??
Use the "Time
Zone" Converter to find out!
So you're into "converting"
now...
Use this site to
"Convert"!!
Convert just about Anything
to Anything else
Over 8,100 Conversions
and Calculators
www.onlineconversion.com
Calculators
Calculate just about
anything
Also see
http://www.calculateforfree.com/
Currency Converters
Universal Currency - Converter
Yahoo
online Currency Converter
http://finance.yahoo.com/m3?
Currency
Converters, Conversion Tools and Online Foreign Exchange Services
http://www.oanda.com/site/cc_index.shtml
The Euro
2002 begins the year with the new European "Currency" the "Euro"
Visit the official site: for conversion information
http://europa.eu.int/euro/html/entry.html
On 1 January 2002 euro
notes and coins become legal tender
in the 12 countries of
the eurozone.
BBC
News Online explains what is happening and why.
What
the "euro" replaces:
FRENCH FRANC; DEUTSCHMARK;
DRACHMA; ESCUDO; BELGIAN
FRANC;
LUXEMBOURG FRANC; GUILDER;
LIRA; MARKKA; PESETA;
IRISH PUNT; SCHILLING
Convert Euro
to US Dollar
Convert Euro
to Japanense Yen
Convert Euro
to British Pound
More Euro
conversion calculators
More Currency conversion
tools:
Need to "Convert" your
$$money$$??
Find "Todays" Exchange
Rates
http://www.x-rates.com/
The Value of Money / Inflation Calculators
Article - The Value
of Money
Exceprt quoted from site:
by Nell Ingalls, July/August 1998
http://www.sls.lib.il.us/reference/por/features/98/money.html
What better way to illustrate
how much better things were in the "good old days" than to compare how
much things cost then and now? One can calculate the relative purchasing
power of money in different years. How realistically the resulting numbers
reflect the relative standard of living or the quality of life is another
question.
The Current Value of
Old Money
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
The Value of a Dollar
The Consumer Price Index
(CPI) is a measure of the average change
in prices over time in
a market basket of goods and services.
http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/data/us/calc/
Duke University -
Reference Resources:
Calculator$$
http://www.lib.duke.edu/reference/virtual/calculat.htm
Online Reference Resources
- Money & Measures
Yale University Library
http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/readyref/money.html
University of Illinois
- Urbana
Banking & Money Resources
http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/crx/bank.htm
College of William &
Mary
Money & Taxes - Resources
http://www.swem.wm.edu/Resources/Websites/money.htm
Interesting sites -
Encyclopedia
of Finance
Virtual
Finance Library
Paper
Money & Bank Notes Website Resources
See
too my Free Learning sites on budgeting & money management
COOKING Calcualtions
- Converting - Substitutions
Cooking
- Recipe Conversion Tools
Cooking tools : Substitutions, Terms & Measurements
Substitutions/Conversions : Flavorings
Related : Google Web Directory
of Cooking
Sites - Techniques
Dictionaries
infonesia
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212342,00.html
Infonesia
is an inability to remember where you saw or heard
an
item of information.
The
condition is usually temporary but can recur frequently.
It
is more common in "information societies",
with
their flows of e-mail, seasonal catalogs, personal digital assistants,
and
trial magazine subscriptions.
Possibly
the most pernicious
form
of infonesia is internesia, the inability to remember which
Web
site you saw an item of information on.
Reference Desk Language & Translation Dictionary
American Heritage Book of English Usage
Whatis.com
General
Computing Terms
Word
list for Standards & Organizations
WhatIs: All
Categories
LEXICOOL : Directory of Bilingual and Multilingual Dictionaries
Search Internet for a dictionary with the word (Powered by OneLook Dictionaries)
HINTS: Adding wild cards expands the search. (* = any number of characters and ? = exactly one character). For example, "tomo*ow", "tomo??ow" or "tomor*" will find "tomorrow".Need to know the correct
spelling
of a Medical Term
or checking to see if
you've
spelled it correctly
Use Spellex's - Spell
Checker