Librarians say

"Look it up!"

but in a helpful way

• A page compiled by Ruth Levitsky, MLS.
• A Librarians' Index to the Internet - lii.org.
• And Librarians Better Than Google from a story on the AP Wire
• Perhaps because you know your audience Teenja for teens.
• GradeWinner for tweens.
• 24 Hour Scholar for college students.
• Apparently, Parent Surf is for parents.
• And Go Belle is making time for moms on the go.
• Futhermore When a Search Engine Isn't Enough, Call a Librarian from the NYTimes
• The Marginal Librarian mmmm?
• The Resource Shelf "Resources and News for Information Professionals"
• The Informed Librarian Online is a monthly compilation of the most recent tables of contents from over 275 titles...
• The How to Find a Journal at Yale, I had a piece of pizza in New Haven does that count?
• Evaluating Web Sites, from Cornell, a very hospitable site.
• Online Books, from UPenn.
• eBookLocator
• Digital Book Index "provides links to more than 102,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites."
• Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF is a non-profit group of passionate people ?lawyers, volunteers, and visionaries ?working to protect your digital rights.
• The U.S. Copyright Office site.
• The World Intellectual Property Organisation site.
• Search Systems "the largest directory of links to free public record databases on the Internet."
• "Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web is a clearinghouse of World Wide Web sites that have applied or adopted standard classification schemes or controlled vocabularies to organize or provide enhanced access to Internet resources."
• National Geographic's MapMachine.
• Is your library listed in the WWW Library Directory?
• Every Library needs a dictionary and a thesaurus and you can download this one for free. And it works well with MS Word. Doesn't everything?
• "The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form."
• "The Special Libraries Association "is the international association representing the interests of thousands of information professionals in over seventy countries."
• Glossary of Internet Terms by Matisse Enzer.
• RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books...
• SearchEdu dot com.
• From bookmarks or favorites to Words and What They Mean an Internet library.
• LibDex is a worldwide index to 17,000 libraries.

• For the Children's Librarian, Kids Click!
• And, Ask Jeeves for Kids.
• For the 7 to 12 twelve year old, Yahooligans!
• Looksmart's, Kids Directory.
• American Library Association's, Great Web Site for Kids.
• Awesome Library, "...organizes the Web with 26,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education."
• Think Quest, "Created by students for students."
• The International Children's Digital Library
• PrimaryGames.com This site contains educational games for elementary students.
• The mission of The Lion & Lamb Project is to stop the marketing of violence to children.
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Exploited Child Unit
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• Does the Virtual Librarian say, "Quiet"?
• AMG All Music Guide well the "M" stands for Media since there are also a Movie and Game guides.
• "...It all started when we began to ponder which works of fiction every well-read adult should have read..." Check out Five Feet of Books from RJ Julia Booksellers.
• What am I worth? from Salary dot com
• How far will my salary go? from homestore dot com
• Your compatibility with a celebrity from CelebMatch.com.
• "Prepare yourself for the biggest, best, most award-winning movie site on the planet" The Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
• Libraries have sections for non-fiction and fiction. On the Internet, there are hoaxes, really there are! For a list, see No fooling: the 10 worst Internet hoaxes from CNN.com.
• SafeSearching.com brings you only official celebrity websites. And they have never asked for my picture; go figure!
• BookFilter "We discuss books, magazines, authors, publishers and ponies."
• "Find out what those acronyms and abbreviations stand for... BookFilter.

• Search Engines Alltheweb, Google, and Inktomi respond to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
• If you want to research or find it, with i Tools the favorite phrase is, "Look it up".
• free access to lookup databases Lookup Directory.
• Science and physics and freeware! Oh my! Oops that's Dorothy not Alice, the Oz of Wonderland.
• The Learning Network's Fact Monster.
• Genealogy and more from Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet.
• QOZI's Geography Resources.
• If your interest is Geo-Politics, this is the Kiosk to visit.
• Maybe I'm a square, but the latest in learning math is a Math Circle.
• And maybe I don't get around much, but there is a Boston Math Circle.
• InfoUse's Plane Math Activities is not plain and you may need to download Shockwave.
• The Web Credibility Project from Stanford
• Sun Associates Educational Technology Integration Finding the Right Tool for the Task -- Four Categories of Technology Use.
• It's all Greek to me, but you can Learn Latin at WannaLearn dot com.
• Or Learn Greek.
• Or Learn to Draw from Imagination Station.
• "Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web..." onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu edited by John Mark Ockerbloom.
• Some content may be objectionable, Content Watch will "audit" your drive or maybe sell you something.
• From two syllables: Weblogs, to one syllable: Blog.
• PBS Distance Learning. David Ives, whatever happened to that "learn the guitar" show on WGBH Channel 2 Boston?

• The Internet Public Library has more newspapers than will fit in the bottom of a bird cage.
• Speaking of newspapers, The Wall Street Journal's Personal Technology column by Walt Mossberg is good.
• Get the news from Newstrove and avoid newsprint fingers, but don't have the dog fetch your computer.

• The ALA's Machine-Assisted Reference ServiceBest Free Reference Web Sites 2004.
• AskOxford: the free online dictionary resource from OUP.
• The United Nation's CyberSchoolBus.
• Scholastic's Magic School Bus.
• National Library of Medicine's Health & Safety Information on Household Products.
• American Association of Poison Control Centers.
• Epicurious the world's greatest recipe collection; syrup of ipacac is not a seasoning.
• NYPL's Picture Collection Online.
• Time & Life Pictures .
• University of Michigan's Documents Center; Go Bucks!
• Wikipedia, a multilingual encyclopedia.
• Statistical Abstract of the United States.
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• The Libraries at Harvard University page.
• The Boston Public Library page.
• The Boston Library Consortium sharing resources.
• Library Technology Guide to Interlibrary Loans Automation from Vanderbilt University.