A project dedicated to building a public library for the Internet community, blending the traditions and culture of the libraries and librarianship with the dynamism of the Internet, in service of helping people to find information and to learn.
The IPL Ready Reference Collection is a collection of Internet resources gathered together with the
needs of the Internet community in mind. It is not intended to be a comprehensive hotlist to all sites
on every subject, but rather an annotated collection, chosen to help answer specific questions
quickly and efficiently.
A huge set of hotlinks to reference information on the WWW.
The Scholes Library Electronic Reference Desk
A list of ready reference materials available on the WWW.
These Sites contain over 2,500 of the most popular information reference locations and tools on the Web. The tools include Calculators, Dictionaries, Directories, Facts, Zip Codes, Maps, Books, Languages, Calendars, Sports, Jobs, Weather, Music, Autos, Travel, Populations, Events, White & Yellow Pages, Health, Humor, - plus many many more helpful tools to assist you.
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National Council of Teachers of English
This is the homepage for the National Council of Teachers of English. Located at this site are ideas, resources, standards, as well as other English Site links, and information concerning the council.
A "how-to" guide for referencing online sources in student bibliographies.
An excellent set of links to Children's Literature. Books, poetry - the whole works! Some full length works.
Grammar, Composition and Rhetoric Resources
A compendium of grammar and writing sites is presented for the serious learner.
The first two sections on each help page contain help written by Ruth and her students. The last section contains a wealth of information gleaned and linked from a variety of Web sites around the world.
Language Arts and Literature Sites
This is a great site that has many educational links to children's literature web sites.
This site provides help with grammar, writing, and on-line English grammar clinics.
This site makes available information, books and other materials including on-line references including Roget's Thesaurus, dictionaries, and almanacs.
The Purdue On-Line Writing Lab
At Purdue, students come to the Writing Lab to talk with tutors about planning and writing their papers. On-line, the Writing Lab offers other services as well, including some of our materials on writing and useful links to other sources of information.
Resources for Writers and Writing Instuctors
Jack Lynch at the University of Pennsylvania is just getting this list of sites organized but the potential is tremendous. With a little reorganization this will be a great site.
Schoolhouse: English and Language Arts Topics
This site covers the areas of poetry, literature, philosophy, plays, reading, writing and standards.
Word Play: Sites That Feature Fun With Words
A great site for those who love words and word games. A great learning site for language fun!!!
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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
This is the homepage for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. It contains links to math sites.
The Geometry Center is a mathematics research and education center at the University of Minnesota. It is funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the Science and Technology Center program. The Center has a unified mathematics computing environment supporting math and computer science research, mathematical visualization, software development, application development, video animation production, and K-16 math education. Looking for the historical mathematician, there is a link here that would be a delight!
Math Bookmarks - Icarus Research Data Center
Lots of hotlinks to math sites. A wealth of resources for the Mathematics teacher.
Aerodynamic efficiency is the goal of all race car designers. It is the most important element in developing a competitive race car.
Welcome to the National Zoo Homepage, your ticketless trip to the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park. You are invited to journey into this developing landscape and explore the expanding horizons of the Zoo. Your exploration will take you down familiar pathways and untraveled byways of information about the animals, plants, people and programs of the National Zoo.
A great weather site. Links, teacher stuff, and student materials available.
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Online exhibits at the History Place include the Abraham Lincoln Timeline, The US Civil War, World War II Timeline, The Rise of Adolf Hitler, and President Kennedy photos. Timelines include photos, speeches, and texts. This site also hosts the Speech of the Week, where you can read important words spoken by prominent world figures. In Points of View, modern authors and scholars share reflections of the topics covered elsewhere in The History Place.
The Treasures of King Tutankhamen
The gold, history, lore, and life of the young King Tut is chronicled herein.
The Journey of the Merchant Marco Polo
Documents, photographs, movies, and sound recordings that tell America's story. Resources for Educators.
Introduction to 1492: An Ongoing Voyage
The exhibition examines the first sustained contacts between American people and European explorers, conquerors and settlers from 1492 to 1600. During this period, in the wake of Columbus's voyages, Africans also arrived in the hemisphere, usually as slaves. All of these encounters, some brutal and traumatic, others more gradual, irreversibly changed the way in which peoples in the Americas led their lives.
Declaration of Independence: Drafting the Documents
This special exhibition is the second in a series of public previews of unique documents from the
collections of the Library of Congress.
Portraits and statuary of the Presidents of the United states from Washington to Clinton.
Cap Web: A Guide to the US Congress
Congress.org is updated for the 105th Congress which begins on January 7, 1997. This site allows Internet users to access a complete and reliable directory of information about the members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
The purposes of this site are "To locate, index, and / or make available all appropriate private and public data regarding the Civil War." and
"To promote the study of the Civil War from the perspectives of all professions, occupations, and academic disciplines."
American Memory consists of primary source and archival materials relating to American culture and history. These historical collections are the key contribution of the Library of Congress to the National Digital Library. Most of these offerings are from the Library's unparalleled special collections.
History and Geography of the Underground Railroad
This site includes a general overview of the Underground Railroad, with a brief discussion of slavery and abolitionism, escape routes used by slaves, and alternatives to commemorate and interpret the signficance of the phenomenon.
The Soviet Union and the United States
This exhibit illustrates both the domestic and the foreign policy of Soviet rule.
The "home page" of the United Nations. Links to sites describing the scope and function of the UN.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
This page attempts to capture the flavor of the rich diversity evolving over Russian history and hence depends as much on the endeavors of others as those of the Russian Studies Program.
This section is reserved for enjoying, exploring and more fully understanding the complex (but enchanting) country of China, its culture and its people.
This web page has pulled together resources form around the Net which relate to Native Americans.
A part of the intent of Tribal Voice is to be an uncensored, blunt and direct outlet for the native american heart.
A plethora of sites relating to African Americans.
A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.
Library of Congress Cultural Exhibits
Explore a few of the cultural exhibits that have been displayed at the Library of Congress. You'll get to see things like the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a few exhibits from the Expo. It's a nice family outing and you don't have to fight the traffic to get there.
This site was primarily designed to educate and entertain you on the topic of cross-cultural communications.
Harriet Tubman: The Most Remarkable Woman of this Age
Biography of a Black Hero.
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A ready reference to the web. Contains Hot Links to many of the search engines, news links, and high interest links for education or leisure. This site is updated weekly. Great for whatever!!!
Mollie is an experienced Internet traveler. She can help you find information on the Internet to help you complete your homework assignments. Like a trusted seeing-eye dog, she's your eyes in finding information on the Internet. This is a great site for school children.
The National Gallery of Art and its collections belong to the people of the United States of America. European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and selected works on paper are displayed in the permanent collection galleries, and temporary exhibitions of art from countries and cultures throughout the world are presented on a regular basis. Admission is always free.
National Museum of American Art
African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
The focus of this lesson is the development of a position paper concerning a researched issue and the presentation of that position paper to a government official.
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