1. Ageism
2. America's Most Stolen Vehicles (2008)
3. America's Ten Most Endangered National Parks
4. Answers.com - free access to millions of topics from great dictionaries, encyclopedias, and much more
5. Bicycle Tutor (learn how to fix your own bicycle - has tutorials and repair guides)
6. Captioned Media Program (free-loan captioned media: educational, special interest, classic movies)
7. CSU Cooperative Extension (gardening, insects, crops, livestock, baking, canning, etc.)
8. Earth Trends (comprehensive online database that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world)
9. Ending Sweatshops and Promoting Free Trade (issues, strategies, tips and information)
10. Famous Name Changes (actors, singers, athletes, politicians, religious leaders)
11. Flag Flown Over Colorado State Capitol - Request
12. Flag Flown Over U.S. Capitol - Request
13. Gallup Organization (public opinion polls, surveys, news and analysis)
14. Gas and Oil (Energy information: supply, demand, prices, consumers, outlook)
15. Homeland Security Disaster and Emergency Management Information Network
16. How Everyday Things Are Made (airplanes, jelly beans, crayons, glass; welding, casting, machining, etc)
17. How Products Are Made - explains and illustrates the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products
18. How Stuff Works (electronics, cars, science, money, home, travel, entertainment)
19. How to Clean Anything
20. Ian's Shoelace Site (demonstrates a wide variety of knots and ways to lace your shoes)
21. Keep America Beautiful (litter prevention and recycling info. for students, teachers, citizens)
22. Knol (from Google - contains authoritative articles about specific topics)
23. Library of Congress Webcasts (biography, education, government, religion, science, etc.)
24. National Museum of the American Indian
25. New York Public Library Digital Gallery (over 275,000 digitized images of maps, photos, books, manuscripts, etc.)
26. NexTalk.net (telephone services for the deaf)
27. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS to SIC and SIC to NAICS)
28. Our Flag (history, practices, observances, holidays, flying, folding, caring for flags)
29. Phobia List (names and definitions; quotes about fear; categories; help)
30. Plane Crash Info.com (pictures, famous deaths, by aircraft type, airline, specs, 100 worst)
31. Ready - preparedness information from U.S. Department of Homeland Security
32. Reference Sources from Bartleby.com
33. Robert's Rules of Order
34. Roman Numerals
35. Say How? A Pronunciation Guide to Names of Public Figures (from the Library of Congress)
36. Silicon Investor (historical stock prices, quotes, etc.)
37. Sprint IP Relay (Internet telecommunications relay service- similar to TDD/TTY)
38. Terrorism - Selected Internet Resources (from the Library of Congress)
39. Test Yourself for Hidden Bias (from Tolerance.org / Southern Poverty Law Center)
40. Understanding Prejudice (websites and searchable databases on the causes + consequences of prejudice)
41. Virtual Reference Shelf (reference websites compiled by the Library of Congress)
42. What Are the Odds of Dying? (by drowning, snake bite, plane crash, lightning, etc.)
43. What Tree Is That? (tree identification)
44. Wolfram Alpha (uses built-in algorithms to compute answers to a variety of questions)
45. World Leaders
46. World's 200 Tallest High-Rise Buildings

Astronomical Data (sunrise, moon phases, solstices, etc.)

1. Astronomical Data Tables (Moon Phases, Sunrise, Sunset, Moonrise, Moonset, Equinoxes, Solstices, etc.)
2. Complete Sun and Moon Data for One Day
3. StarDate (moon phases, meteor showers, constellation guide, planet viewing, etc.)
4. Sunrise and Sunset (times) in Colorado Springs, Colorado
5. Sunrise/Sunset Calendars (by city or latitude/longitude; Moonrise/Moonset)

Awards / Prizes

1. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
2. Book Awards
3. Booklist Center (lists of award-winning and recommended books by category)
4. BookSpot.com (authors, awards, genre, online books, literary criticism, reviews)
5. Nobel Prize Winners and Information
6. Official Site for Nobel Foundation
7. Pulitzer Prizes (incl. resources, history of winners and finalists, archive, and forms)
8. Pulitzer Prizes (Poetry 1922 - present)

Best Places to Live / Relocation

1. Best Cities to Live, Work and Play - 2008 (Kiplinger.com)
2. Best Places (compare cities using cost of living, housing, education, economy, crime, health and climate)
3. Best Places to Live 2008 - Small Cities (CNNMoney.com)
4. Homefair.com (relocation: salary calculator, school reports, crime and community info.)
5. Relocation Essentials (includes tools to explore communities, compare cost of living, crime reports, schools and salary)
6. Salary Calculator (salary and cost-of-living; relocation info., neighborhood comparisons)

Biographies

1. American History (comprehensive: 18th Century - present; organized by era and topic)
2. Biographical Dictionary
3. Biography "Search over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present"
4. Biography Resources: Finding information on the famous, infamous and obscure
5. Biography Writers Workshop ("How-To" for kids)
6. Biography.com (Short biographies of over 25,000 contemporary and historical figures)
7. Black History - Biographies (from Gale)
8. Celebrating Hispanic Heritage (activities , biographies, music, timeline, links)
9. Colorado Education (information about Colorado such as emblems, symbols, history, biography, etc., library resources, as well as information for parents, educators and students)
10. Fred Rogers Biography / Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
11. Hispanic Heritage Month (statistics, biographies, language, holidays, terminology)
12. Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids (biographies, statistics, countries, quizzes, crossword)
13. Islam (from Answers.com)
14. Omnibiography - Over 110,000 Biographies Online
15. Project Vote Smart (candidates biographies, voting records, issue positions, legislation)
16. Time 100 (Time Magazines's profiles of 100 individuals who most influenced the last 100 years)
17. Who2? Find Famous People Fast! (Biographies and links; also city, state, and country indexes)

Calculators / Converters

1. Amortization Schedule Calculator (calculate your monthly mortgage payment)
2. Analytical Engines: Calculators & Convertors
3. Calculate Materials (paint, tile, wallpaper, carpeting, insulation, grass seed, etc.)
4. FinAid (scholarships, loans, grants, prepaid tuition, military aid, applications, calculators)
5. Homefair.com (relocation: salary calculator, school reports, crime and community info.)
6. How far is it? (calculate distance between 2 places in the world)
7. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement
8. Interactive Units Converter (weight, mass, distance, length, speed, temperature, etc.)
9. Mortgage Calculators (includes calculators to determine mortgage, debt consolidation, amortization, refinancing, loan comparisons and more)
10. Oanda Currency Converter (multilingual currency converter for 164 currencies)
11. Online Conversion (volume, frequency, cooking, clothing, atronomical, angles, etc.)
12. Retirement Planning (calculators, estate planning, investments, FAQs, taxes, etc.)
13. Roman Numeral/Date Conversion (convert 1-4999 and Gregorian/Julian dates to Latin)
14. Salary Calculator (salary and cost-of-living; relocation info., neighborhood comparisons)
15. U.S. Postal Service International Calculator (calculate cost to send letter, package, etc.)
16. Universal Currency Converter

Citing Sources

1. Citation Machine (use templates for books, articles, web pages to get MLA + APA citations)
2. Citing Government Publications
3. Citing Sources (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago Manual, CSE Manual)
4. EasyBib (automatic bibliography and citations - currently offers MLA 6 & MLA 7 for free)
5. MLA Formatting and Style Guide (from the OWL at Purdue)

Citizenship / Immigration

1. Citizenship Test Questions
2. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services - USCIS (formerly Immigration & Naturalization Service - INS)
3. Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants

Dead or Alive / Graves and Cemeteries

1. Cemetery Iconography (meanings of symbols and letters on tombstones)
2. Dead or Alive? (tracks whether famous people are still alive)
3. Find A Grave (see the graves of thousands of famous people from around the world)
4. National Gravesite Locator (burial locations of veterans + dependents in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries and other military cemeteries
5. Who's Alive and Who's Dead? (famous people)

Geography / Country Information

1. 50 States and Capitals (fast facts and trivia)
2. Background Notes (facts about the land, people, history, gov't, political conditions, economy & foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies & areas of special sovereignty)
3. Country Profiles (from BBC News: history, politics, economy, leaders, media, etc.)
4. Ethnologue: Languages of the World (an encyclopedic reference work of all the world's 6,912 known living languages)
5. Flags of the World (click on the country name for more info, including maps, geography, people, gov't, economy, communication, transportation, military & transnational issues)
6. Nationmaster (graphically compare countries' statistics on crime, economy, health, and much more)
7. Portals to the World (in-depth information about countries and areas of the world)
8. USGS Query Form for U.S. and Territories (search places / features to find altitude, latitude, longitude, map reference, etc.)
9. World Factbook (from the CIA - maps, government, economy, statistics, ethnicity, population, etc.)

Handbooks / Almanacs

1. Colorado Driver Handbook
2. Colorado Driver Handbook - Spanish-language Version (Licencia de Conducir del estado de Colorado)
3. Colorado Landlord-Tenant Handbook
4. Fact Monster (Kids' Almanac: timelines, math, sports, history, science, words, quizzes)
5. FAST FACTS (Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools)
6. Information Please (almanacs on a wide range of subjects, dictionary, atlas, encyclopedia)
7. Motorcycle Operator's Handbook (State of Colorado)
8. Occupational Outlook Handbook 2008-09 (career information, earnings, job prospects)

Hoaxes / Urban Legends

1. Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time
2. Truth or Fiction (information about e-mail rumors, warnings, hoaxes, offers, requests for help, etc.)
3. Urban Legends and Folklore
4. Urban Legends Reference Pages (Snopes.com)

Holidays / Observances

1. All About Mexico - Cinco de Mayo
2. American Heart Month (February)
3. American Indian Heritage Month (history, tribes, words, statistics, reservations, etc.)
4. Armed Forces Day
5. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
6. Better Speech and Hearing Month
7. Children's Health Month
8. Christmas
9. Cinco de mayo de 1862 - La Batalla de Puebla (dual-language: English and Spanish)
10. Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos - from Answers.com)
11. Deaf History Month - celebrating key events
12. Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead - history, postcards, food, crafts, photos, altar)
13. Diwali (Divali, Dewali, Deepavali) - Hindu Festival (from Answers.com)
14. Earth Calendar - holidays and celebrations around the world by date, country, religion
15. Earth Day
16. Easter (from Answers.com)
17. Father's Day
18. Fourth of July (facts and statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau)
19. Fourth of July Celebrations Database (wide range of celebrations from 1776-2009)
20. Groundhog Day (from Punxsutawney Groundhog Club -- history, kids' activities, live forecast 2/2/04)
21. Halloween
22. Hanukkah (from Answers.com)
23. Hispanic Heritage Month (statistics, biographies, language, holidays, terminology)
24. Hispanic Heritage Month for Kids (biographies, statistics, countries, quizzes, crossword)
25. History of Flag Day
26. Holiday Net - information on holidays (from 123Holiday.net)
27. Holidays and Observances (from Librarians' Index to the Internet)
28. Holidays on the Net
29. Holidays, Celebrations, and Observances (monthly, weekly, and daily; traditional and silly)
30. How Valentine's Day Works
31. Irish American Heritage and St. Patrick's Day
32. Irish-American Heritage Month and St. Patrick's Day (facts & figures from U.S. Census Bureau)
33. July Is National Hot Dog Month
34. Juneteenth
35. Kwanzaa (from Answers.com)
36. Labor Day (origins, articles, celebrations)
37. Leap Year (from Answers.com)
38. Leap Year from Science World
39. Library Lovers' Month
40. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January 19)
41. May is Strike Out Stroke Month
42. Memorial Day
43. Memorial Day - History of the Holiday
44. Mother's Day
45. National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
46. National American Indian Heritage Month (National Park Service)
47. National Book Month
48. National Library Week
49. National Military Appreciation Month (May)
50. Origins and Traditions of May Day
51. Passover (from Answers.com)
52. Patriot Day (September 11)
53. Presidents' Day
54. Ramadan (from Answers.com)
55. Red Cross Month
56. Rosh Hashanah (from Answers.com)
57. St. Patrick's Day - politics, culture, crossword puzzles, quizzes, and more
58. Thanksgiving History
59. Veterans Day (history, fact sheet, etc., from Department of Veterans Affairs)
60. Why Are Leap Years Used?
61. Yom Kippur (from Infoplease)

Language / Literature / Quotations

1. 100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English
2. Acronym Finder
3. English Dialects - English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages
4. Fagan Finder - links to sources for quotations, proverbs, sayings, aphorisms, slogans, cliches, etc.
5. Pikes Peak Writers Conference
6. Quotations, proverbs, cliches, aphorisms and sayings
7. Quoteland.com
8. Shakespeare Online (plays, poems, essays, analysis, plots, a glossary, and more!)
9. Word Play: sites that feature fun with words
10. World's Famous Orations (281 masterpieces from 213 rhetoricians)
11. Writing Skills (essays, research papers, biographies, book reports, bibliographies)

Library Information

1. ALA Task Force on Privacy and Confidentiality in the Electronic Environment
2. American Library Association (ALA home page)
3. Ask A Librarian - An Online Reference Service from the Library of Congress
4. Chat Reference Libraries (worldwide and state-by-state)
5. Colorado Filtering Clearinghouse (the whys and hows of content filtering for computers accessing the Internet.)
6. Colorado Library Card (CLC) Statewide Borrower's Program
7. Colorado Public Library Statistics and Profiles
8. Colorado State Library Jobline
9. Colorado Virtual Library - Colorado libraries, historic papers, digital collections, geospatial data
10. Dewey Decimal Classification System (13th Abridged)
11. Filter Performance (from the Colorado Filtering Clearinghouse)
12. First Amendment Basics (from American Library Association)
13. First Ladies' Library
14. Internet Public Library: Reference Section (huge collection of reference tools, subject collections, magazines, newspapers)
15. Librarian's Guide to Anime and Manga
16. Librarians Index to the Internet (huge multidisciplinary reference website)
17. Library Education Opportunities (LEO) - A Continuing Education Calendar for Colorado Libraries
18. Library of Congress
19. Library of Congress African American Mosaic
20. Library of Congress American Memory (primary sources - history, photos, docs. Browse by topic, timeline, location)
21. Library of Congress American Memory (digital historical collections - U.S history and culture)
22. Library of Congress Genealogy and Local History Collections
23. Library Spot! (reference sources, libraries, research tips)
24. Library Statistics Program (academic, public, and school library information)
25. LibSite - "a recommendation service for library related websites" (incl. blog, wiki, RSS feeds and email alerts)
26. Libweb: Libraries of the World
27. LISjobs.com - Jobs for Librarians and Information Professionals
28. Open Records Law (from ALA: confidentiality of library records - Internet)
29. Policy on Confidentiality of Library Records (from ALA)
30. Presidential Libraries
31. Privacy and the Courts (from ALA)
32. Privacy of User Records (library records - Colorado Statute 24-90-119)
33. Refdesk.com (huge multidisciplinary reference website with hundreds of resources)
34. Spanish in our Libraries (basic words, phrases, pronunciation, and Dewey classification for library staff)
35. USA Patriot Act and Intellectual Freedom (from ALA: confidentiality of library records)

On This Day / Year by Year

1. Born On This Day in History - What Famous People Share Your Birthday?
2. Brainy History (events by year, events on any day, notable birthdays, important deaths)
3. On This Day: Today's Highlights in History (from the New York Times)
4. Personalized Timelines (personalized timelines incl. historical events, people, and inventions; also people born in a given year)
5. This Day in History (includes categories, e.g., Automotive, Entertainment, Crime, Vietnam War, Literary, Civil War)
6. Time Capsule from dMarie (headlines, birthdays, songs, TV shows, toys, books, etc. for selected date)
7. Year By Year 1900-2008 (select year for highlights and facts; decades with history and quizzes)

Online / Virtual Reference Services

1. Ask Colorado - a free online information service provided by Colorado libraries (24/7)
2. Enquire - "a live question and answer service available 24 hours a day" (U.K.)

Postal Information

1. Guide to World Postal Addresses
2. Post Office Locator - addresses, fax and phone numbers, and hours for local facilities
3. Postage Rates for Domestic and International Services
4. Postal Codes for Canada
5. Postal Codes of the World
6. U.S. Postal Information
7. U.S. Postal Inspection Service
8. U.S. Postal Service International Calculator (calculate cost to send letter, package, etc.)
9. Zip Code Lookup and Address Information
10. Zip Codes and Postal Codes of the World

Public Records

1. Public Records (Nationwide)

Statistics / Demographics / Economic Data

1. American Factfinder (population, housing, economic, and geographic census data by city, county, zip)
2. Bureau of Labor Statistics
3. Census - Colorado (2003) - Demographics (population: sex, age, race, Hispanic origin)
4. Census - Colorado (2003) - Economic Characteristics (employment status, occupation, income, poverty)
5. Census - Colorado (2003) - Housing Characteristics (mortgage, rent, value, heating, year built, etc.)
6. Census - Colorado (2003) - Social Characteristics (education, marital status, disability, place of birth, etc.)
7. Census - Colorado Springs, CO - City (2003) - Demographics (population: sex, age, race, Hispanic origin)
8. Census - Colorado Springs, CO - City (2003) - Economic Characteristics (employment status, occupation, income, poverty)
9. Census - Colorado Springs, CO - City (2003) - Housing Characteristics (mortgage, rent, value, heating, year built, etc.)
10. Census - Colorado Springs, CO - City (2003) - Social Characteristics (education, marital status, disability, place of birth, etc.)
11. Census - Colorado Springs, CO - MSA (2003) - Demographics (population: sex, age, race, Hispanic origin)
12. Census - Colorado Springs, CO - MSA (2003) - Economic Characteristics (employment status, occupation, income, poverty)
13. Census - Colorado Springs, CO - MSA (2003) - Housing Characteristics (mortgage, rent, value, heating, year built, etc.)
14. Census - Colorado Springs, CO - MSA (2003) - Social Characteristics (education, marital status, disability, place of birth, etc.)
15. Census - El Paso County, CO (2003) - Demographics (population: sex, age, race, Hispanic origin)
16. Census - El Paso County, CO (2003) - Economic Characteristics (employment status, occupation, income, poverty)
17. Census - El Paso County, CO (2003) - Housing Characteristics (mortgage, rent, value, heating, year built, etc.)
18. Census - El Paso County, CO (2003) - Social Characteristics (education, marital status, disability, place of birth, etc.)
19. Census Scope (color maps and charts showing demographic trends based on 2000 census)
20. Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Park County, and Teller County Statistical Snapshot (from PPACG Economics & Demographics Program)
21. Community Information by Zip Code (Business, Demographic, Education, Environment, Health, Political)
22. Consumer Price Index (from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics News)
23. Economic Indicators (available from April, 1995 forward - provides economic information on prices, wages, production, business activity, purchasing power, credit, money and Federal finance)
24. Economic Indicators.gov (from the U.S. Department of Commerce)
25. FedStats (statistics from more than 100 agencies, including stats on demographics, aviation, cigarette smoking, crime, education and much, much more!)
26. How Much Information? (how much information is produced annually worldwide - print, film, broadcast, net, etc.)
27. How Much Is That Worth Today? (compare purchasing power of U.S. dollar from 1790 to the present)
28. KIDS COUNT Census Data Online
29. KIDS COUNT State-Level Data Online (education, health, poverty, demographics, etc.)
30. Metropolitan Ethnic and Racial Change - 2000 Census
31. National Center for Health Statistics - Fast Stats A-Z (health statistics and links to additional sources of information)
32. Population (Colorado State Demography Office) - incl. historical census, estimates, and forecasts
33. School District Comparisons (2000 Census National School District Demographics)
34. Selected Social Characteristics - Colorado Springs, CO - MSA
35. Southern Colorado Economic Forum (demographic and statistical info. for El Paso and Teller counties)
36. StateMaster.com (statistical database which allows you to research and compare data between U.S. states.)
37. Statistical Abstract of the United States (includes current and historical abstracts)
38. Statistical Resources on the Web ("meta-index" to statistical web sites and publications)
39. U.S and World Population Clocks - POPClocks
40. U.S. Census Bureau
41. U.S. Census Bureau - Age Search Service (1910 - 1990)
42. U.S. Census Bureau - State & County Quick Facts (people, business, geography)
43. U.S. Census Historical Census Data Browser
44. UN Data (from the United Nations - provides statistical resources from 60 million records on topics from energy to homicide to demographics)
45. United Nations Statistics Division
46. USA Statistics in Brief 2009 (supplement to U.S. Statistical Abstract - incl. HTML and Excel versions)

Times / Dates

1. International Date Line
2. Local Times Around the World
3. Official U.S. Time
4. Perpetual Calendar (from infoplease)
5. Perpetual Calendars (19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries)
6. Time Exhibits (history of time measurement, calendars, clocks/watches, daylight savings)
7. World Clock - Time Zones (sort by country, time zone, world capitals)
8. World Time Zones (map with current times)

Translation

1. Babelfish (translate text: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, others )
2. Bible Translations (search by word or passage in over 20 languages, over 10 versions)
3. Free Translation (translate text or entire web pages; includes special characters)
4. Google Language Tools (translate text or web pages and search the Internet in dozens of languages)
5. Onelook Dictionary (words, phrases, and translations from around the world)
6. Systran (translate text: Chinese, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, others)
7. Ultralingua (translation, verb conjugations, numbers, and grammar for several languages)

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