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Library Services: Reference Resources

All of these website are on the public web. Students, staff and their families have access to excellent reliable resource through our online databases.

 

Almanacs & Country Information

• Almanacs
  • Farmer's Almanac
  • Information Please Almanac
• Geographical Information
  • Information Please Atlas
  • Library of Congress Country Studies
  • U.S. Census Bureau - Geography
  • U.S. State Department Background Notes
• Flags
  • Flags of the World
  • U.S. Flags

Citation Guides

• MLA
• Noodletools

Dictionaries/Thesauri

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
• One Look Dictionaries
• Rhyming Dictionaries
• Roget's Thesaurus

Economics and Math

• Economic Education Web
• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Stock Market Game
• Units Converter
• Yahoo Finance
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

General References/Encyclopedias

• Internet Public Library
• Library Spot
• MGPL Webrary (Reference links organized by Dewey Decimal)
• Refdesk.com
• e Skolar Reference Desk

Government

• Fed Stats
• FirstGov.gov
• Library of Congress - Thomas
• Project Vote Smart
• The White House
• U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. Senate

History

• EyeWitness to History
• History Channel - Speeches
• History Matters
• Library of Congress American Memory
• National Archives - U.S. History
• This Day In History
• U.S. History

News

• CNN
• C-SPAN
• MSNBC
• NY Times
• USA Today
• Washington Post

People

• A&E's Biography.com
• Bartlett's Quotations
• Information Please Biography
• U.S. Census Bureau - People