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Compiled by Rebecca Brown Master's of Library Science Candidate at Texas Woman's University

Addresses - Phone Numbers	International
Answers.com	Jobs - Employment
Architecture	Kansas
Biographies - People	Law
Business	Library Information -Tools
Colleges - Universities	Literature
Counties - States	Maps
Dictionaries - Thesauri - Translation	Missouri
Dykes Library	People
Encyclopedias - Calendars - Seller Guides	Reference - Meta Sites
Entertainment	Religion
Genealogy - Obituaries	Science - How Things Work
Government	Statistics - Maps
Grants	Style Guides - Writing
Health - Medicine	Taxes
History	Travel - Traffic - Weather
Homework Help	Weather - Travel - Traffic

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Addresses-Zip Codes-Area Codes

•Toll-Free Numbers

•A9.com - Search Yellow Pages

•Area Codes
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•International Dialing Codes

•Internet Tools

•Ph</font></a><font face="Arial"><a target="_blank" href="http://fonefinder.net"><font color="#000000">one Finder

•Polk City Directory

•Reverse Lookup at InfoSpace

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Architecture

•Great Buildings

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Biographies-People

•Abraham Lincoln

•Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress

•Biographical Dictionary

•Biographies at Infoplease.com

•Biography Source - Penn State University

•Carter G. Woodson: Father of Black History Month

•Columbus - The 4 Voyages of Columbus

•Congressional Biographical Directory

•Explorers - A to Z

•Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

•Martin Luther King, Jr.

•Presidents of the United States

•Saints & Angels

•Supreme Court Justices-Biographies

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Business

•Best Best Business Web Sites from ALA

•Business Letter Resources

•Business Owner's Toolkit

•Business Plans

•Global Business Resources

•Stock Quotes

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Colleges-Universities

•College Catalogs from 30,000 schools

•College Information

•College Newspapers

•College Rankings

•College Search Nat'l Center for Ed.

•Financial Aid - U.S. Department of Education

•Higher Education in the US & Canada

•Internship Programs

•Peterson's Education Portal

•U.S. and Canadian University Resource

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Counties-States-Countries

•50 States and Capitals

•Best Places to Live in America: 2004

•CIA - World Factbook

•LOC Country Studies at LOC

•LOC Portals to the World

•U.S. Counties - NACO - National Association of Counties

•Washington, D.C.

•W</font></span></font><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3">orldAtlas.com

•Worldwide Data

•World Almanac for Kids

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Dictionaries-Thesauri-Translation

•AltaVista - Translation

•American Heritage Dictionary

•Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus

•Language Dictionaries and Translators

•Legal Dictionary

•Medical Information Source

•Merriam-Webster Dictionary

•One Look Dictionary Search -Excellent Resource

•Spanish Dictionary

•Specialty Dictionaries

•Thesaurus.com

•WordReference.com-Translation

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Encyclopedias- Almanacs - Seller Guides

•Answers.com-Encyclopedia

•Britannica Concise Encyclopedia

•Edmund's Car Pricing Guide

•Encyclopedias

•Internet Tools

•Jewish Encyclopedia

•Kelley Blue Book Car Pricing

•Literary Encyclopedia

•NADA New & Used Cars

•Online Encyclopedias

•Sites By Dewey Decimal Numbers

•Smithsonian N. Am. Mammals

•World Almanac for Kids

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Entertainment

•Academy Awards Database

•Bartle Hall Kansas City, Missouri

•Baseball Almanac : The Official Baseball History Site

•CityGuide: Kansas City

•Film Literature Index

•Internet Movie Database

•Kansas City Movie Theaters and Times

•Motion Picture Scripts

•Movie Directors

•Movie Reviews

•Screenland Theatre - Kansas City

•Television Listings

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Genealogy - Obituaries

•Ancestry Plus Database at KCPL

•Family Search Genealogy

•Find a Grave

•Genealogy Guide - KCPL

•Guide to the Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes

•Kansas State Historical Society

•Missouri Coroner's Database

•Missouri State Historical Society

•MO Birth & Death Records Pre-1910

•MO Soldiers Database: 1812-WW I

•MO State Archives & Genealogy

•National Obituary Archive

•Nationwide Obituaries

•Native American Nations

•Search USA Death Notices

•State Genealogy Projects

•Vital Records -- Find Information by State

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Government

•Branches of Government

•Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

•CIA - World Factbook

•Code of Federal Regulations - CFR

•Consumer Information

•Core Documents of U.S. Democracy

•Department of State-Travel

•Directory of State & Local Agencies

•Draft Registration Online

•Federal Grant Resources

•Federal Holidays - 2005

•Federal Reserve System

•FedStats-Government Agencies

•Flags Of The World

•Flags of the World - CIA

•Food and Drug Administration

•Glossary of Government Terms

•Government Blue Pages

•Government Guide for Kids

•Government Printing Office

•Homeland Security

•House of Representatives

•House of Representatives Statistics

•IRS Forms and Publications

•Medicaid Home Page

•Medicare Home Page

•National Do Not Call Registry

•Presidents of the United States

•Senate: Origins, Development & Role

•Senate: Powers & Procedures

•Small Business Administration

•Social Security

•Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

•U.S. Code -- Permanent laws of the United States

•USDA/FDA Foodborne Illness Education Information Center

•Vital Records -- Find Information by State

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Grants

•Federal Domestic Assistance - includes grants

•Federal Grant Resources

•Foundation Grants to Individuals - Fee based Service

•Grants and Fundraising Information

•Grants and Grant Writing for Schools

•GRANTS, ETC. - University of Michigan

•GrantSelect - Free Trial Available

•International Grant Resources

•NEC Foundation of America - Grants

•NIH: Grants & Funding Opportunities

•Scholastic's Funding and Grant Connection

•State and Community Grant Foundations

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Health-Medicine

•Aids Information

•Centers for Disease Control-CDC

•Gray's Anatomy

•Health Information Database from National Institutes of Health

•Health Statistics - United States, 2004

•Healthcare Yellow Pages

•Infectious Disease - Reports from around the world

•Medicaid Home Page

•Medical Associations

•Medicare Home Page

•MedlinePlus Health Information from the National Library of Medicine

•National Institutes of Health (NIH)

•Nutrition-Harvard School of Public Health

•PubMed - 15 Million Biomedical Journal Citations

•PubMed Central - National Institutes of Health- free access to full text of over 160 life sciences journals

•World Health Organization - WHO

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History

•Antietam on the Web

•Baseball Almanac : The Official Baseball History Site

•Black History: Father of Black History - Carter Godwin Woodson

•Black History Month

•Black History Month - Gale - Free Resources

•Black History Month: The History of Black History

•Bureau of Land Management Historical Photographs

•Carter G. Woodson - Father of Black History Month

•Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive

•Civil Rights in the U.S.

•Civil Rights Movement Timeline

•Civil War - University of Tennessee

•Civil War Photographs

•Civil War Women - Duke University

•Documenting the American South

•Founding Fathers - Signers of the Declaration of Independence

•Hispanic Heritage Month- Gale - Free Resources

•Historic New York Times Project

•Holocaust Encyclopedia

•Holocaust Memorial Museum

•Holocaust - Remember.org

•Jamestown, Virginia

•Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

•KCMO Library Civil War Resources

•LOC American Memory Project

•Making of America

•National WWII Memorial

•Rare Map Collection-U. of Georgia

•Rulers of the World

•September 11, 2001 Documentary Project - From the Library of Congress

•Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938

•Smithsonian: History and Culture

•Today in History-LOC

•University of Texas Map Collection

•Women's History Month - Gale - Free Resources

•World History

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Homework Help

•Academic Reference Desk

•Punctuation Primer

•APA manuscript format

•Calculators On-Line Center

•Chicago Manual of Style

•Citation and Style Guides

•Citation Machine MLA & APA

•Discovery Channel Homework Help

•Encyclopedias

•Free E-Books Project Guttenberg

•Homework Center at InfoPlease.com

•Literary Terms - Gale - Free Resources

•LOC List of Reference Websites

•Math Forum at Drexel Univ. All Ages

•Math Resources by Subject

•National Archives Reference

•OneLook Dictionary Search

•Online Conversion - Large Numbers

•PinkMonkey-Free Book Summaries

•RedLightGreen - Excellent Research Resource
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•Research and Documentation MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE

•Roman Numeral Converter

•SparkNotes: Study Guides

•Study Guides for Literature at Bibliomania.com

•University Writing Resources

•USA Facts from Dept. of State

•Virtual Reference Shelf

•Writing a Research Paper

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International

•Britain - Frequently Asked Questions

•CIA - World Factbook

•Currency Converter

•Department of State-Travel

•International dialing codes

•Flags Of The World

•Foreign Governments - Chiefs of State & Cabinet Members

•Global Business Resources

•Trade: Foreign Trade Portals

•World Bank - Country Data and Statistics

•Worldwide Data - Nation Master

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Jobs-Employment

•America's Job Bank

•Cover Letters

•Dept of Labor-Job Opportunities

•Employer Profiles

•Interview Questions and Answers

•Jobs with Kansas City, MO

•Occupational Outlook Handbook

•Sample Resumes

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Kansas

•Ft. Leavenworth

•Johnson County Public Library

•Kansas Bar Association

•Kansas Constitution

•Kansas County Election Officers

•Kansas Court of Appeals

•Kansas Dept. of Motor Vehicles

•Kansas Dept. of Revenue - Forms and Publications

•Kansas District Courts

•Kansas Legislature

•Kansas State Historical Society

•Kansas Statutes

•Kansas Supreme Court

•Kansas Vital Records

•Kansas Voter Information

•State of Kansas Official Website

•Voter Registration - Kansas

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Law

•American Bar Association

•Code of Federal Regulations - CFR

•Cornell Legal Information Institute

•Famous Trials - UMKC School of Law

•Kansas Bar Association

•Law Dictionary

•Law Library of Congress

•Legal Dictionaries

•Legal Information

•Martindale Lawyer Locator

•Missouri Bar

•Supreme Court

•Supreme Court Justices

•Supreme Court Justices-Biographies

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Library Information and Tools

•Awesome Library

•Bibliographic Formats and Standards

•Cataloging Calculator

•Cataloger's Toolbox

•Cataloging Resources

•Copyrights and Intellectual Properties

•Cutter Numbers

•Cyber Dewey Condensed

•Dewey Decimal and Cutters

•Dictionary for Library and Information Science

•Friends of Cuban Libraries

•International Federation of Library Associations-IFLA

•Kansas City Metropolitan Library Directory

•Kansas State Library Site

•KidsClick! Web Search for Kids by Librarians

•Library of Congress Authorities

•Library of Congress Subject Headings

•Library Science Mega Site

•Library Science Tools

•MARC 21 Formats

•Mid-Continent Public Library

•Mid-Continent Public Library Branch Locations

•Missouri - State Library Site

•NYC Libraries

•OCLC Cataloging Resources

•Penn State Libraries : Online Reference

•Presidential Libraries

•WebJunction.org

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Literature

•Bartleby.com: Great Books Online -- Encyclopedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus

•Bartleby.com Quotations

•Bedford St.Martin LitLinks

•Book Reviews on the Web

•Castro Speech Database

•Digital Book Index

•Literary Terms - Gale - Free Resources

•Poet's Corner - Biographies - Gale - Free Resources

•Project Gutenberg - FREE electronic books

•Shakespeare.com - Study Guides - Some are fee based

•SparkNotes: Study Guides

•Study Guides for Literature at Bibliomania.com

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Maps

•Rare Map Collection University of Georgia

•Satellite Maps

•State Maps (outlines)

•University of Texas Map Collection

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Missouri

•Area Newspapers on Microfilm

•Google Local

•Jackson County 16th Circuit Court

•Jackson County Land Owner Search

•KCMO City Phone Numbers

•KCMO Downtown Construction Maps & Information

•KCMO 'How Do I' Info page

•Kansas City Area Libraries

•Kansas City Public Library

•Kansas City Voter Registration

•KCMO Bus Schedules

•KCMO Bus Trip Planner

•Missouri Attorney General's Office

•Missouri Bar

•Missouri Birth and Death Records

•Missouri Circuit Courts

•Missouri Constitution

•Missouri Dept. of Motor Vehicles

•Missouri Do Not Call Registry

•Missouri Election Officials

•Missouri - State of MO Frequently Asked Questions

•Missouri Judiciary Home Page

•Missouri Landlord-tenant Law

•Missouri Revised Statutes

•Missouri Secretary of State

•Missouri Senators

•Missouri State Senate

•Missouri Supreme Court

•Missouri Supreme Court Opinions

•Missouri Tax Forms

•Missouri Voter Information

•Pay KC Parking & Traffic Tickets

•State and Local Government

•State of Missouri Official Website

•Tax Guides - Kansas City Public Library

•United States Congressmen From Missouri

•Voter Registration - Missouri

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People

•Abraham Lincoln

•Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress

•Biographies at Infoplease.com

•Biography Source - Penn State University

•Carter G. Woodson: Father of Black History Month

•Columbus - The 4 Voyages of Columbus

•Congressional Biographical Directory

•Explorers - A to Z

•Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

•Martin Luther King, Jr.

•Presidents of the United States

•Saints & Angels

•Supreme Court Justices-Biographies

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Reference - Meta Sites

•Infoplease: Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary, Thesaurus.

•Library of Congress Electronic Reference Desk

•Library Reference Resources - Brown University

•Library Reference Resources - Indiana University

•Library Reference Resources - Lakewood Public Library

•Library Reference Resources - Penn State University

•Library Reference Resources - St. Ambrose University

•Library Reference Resources - SUNY Albany

•Library Reference Resources - University of California, Berkeley

•Library Reference Resources - University of Virginia

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Religion

•Bible-New Testament

•Choosing a Pope

•Jewish Encyclopedia

•New Testament Passage Lookup

•Pope Benedict XVI Biography

•Pope John Paul II

•Pope--Choosing a new Pope

•Religious Texts-Links compiled by TWU Library

•Saints & Angels

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Science-How Things Work

•Calculators On-Line Center

•Conversion Calculators - Convert just about anything to anything else

•Current Sky Information

•Daylight Saving Time

•Geologic Time - U.S. Geological Survey

•Gray's Anatomy

•How Stuff Works

•Measurement Conversions

•Mineralogy for Kids from the Mineralogical Society of America

•NASA - Homework Help

•NASA Human Space Flight

•Periodic Table

•Scientific Databases & Tools

•Science.gov : FirstGov for Science - Government Science Portal

•Smithsonian: Science and Technology

•Stain Removal Information from Cornell University

•The Water Cycle

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Statistics

•Bureau of Labor Statistics

•Census Facts

•C</font></a><a target="_blank" href="http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en"><font color="#000000">ommunity Fact Sheets

•Countries Ranked by Population

•Health Facts -- by State

•Historical Census 1790-1960

•International Data

•State and County QuickFacts

•Statistical Abstract of the U.S.

•Statistical Resources on the Internet

•U.S. Statistics: Crime-Demography-Education-Health

•World Bank International Data and Statistics

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Style Guides - Writing Resources

•American Heritage Book of English Usage

•Chicago Manual of Style

•Chicago Manual of Style Handout

•Citation and Style Guides

•Citation Machine MLA & APA

•EasyBib: Free Automatic Bibliography Composer

•English Grammar

•Research & Writing

•University Online Writing Resources

•Writing a Research Paper

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Taxes

•Free Tax Filing with IRS

•IRS Forms and Publications

•Kansas Dept. of Revenue - Forms and Publications

•KCMO City Tax Forms-Earnings Tax

•Missouri Dept. of Revenue - Tax Forms

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Travel - Traffic - Weather

•Airline Flight Tracker

•Coastal Maine Weather

•Current Sky Information

•Guide to Airplane Seating

•Highway Road Closure

•How the weather works

•National Weather Service

•Travel and Living Abroad

•Weather & Flight Status

•Yahoo Weather

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Weather-Travel-Traffic

•Airline Flight Tracker

•Coastal Maine Weather

•Current Sky Information

•Guide to Airplane Seating

•Highway Road Closure

•How the weather works

•National Weather Service

•Travel and Living Abroad

•Weather & Flight Status

•Yahoo Weather

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