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Milne Public Library
1095 MainStreet
Williamstown, MA 01267

Recommended Web Sites

 

Bill's Blog Greylock News

Reader's Circle weblog

Web Searching Guides, Help, and Tips


Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
Bare Bones 101
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml

Web Search Engines and Directories

Google
http://www.google.com
AOL Search
http://search.aol.com 
Ask Jeeves
http://www.askjeeves.com 
HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com 
FAST
http://www.alltheweb.com/
AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com/
Dogpile Metasearch 
http://www.dogpile.com/

Open Directory Project- A volunteer-edited directory of the web 
http://dmoz.org/
Librarians' Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/
Digital Librarian
http://www.digital-librarian.com/
World Wide Web Virtual Library
http://www.vlib.org/
About.com - Web subject guides compiled by a working staff
http://www.about.com/

News Sites

The Berkshire Eagle
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/
The New York Times on the Web
http://www.nytimes.com/
Los Angeles Times Web Site
http://www.latimes.com/
Reuters News
http://www.reuters.com/
Today's News from CNN
http://www.cnn.com/
CNN Interactive
http://www.cnn.com/
National Public Radio online
http://www.npr.org/
News and Newspapers Online
http://library.uncg.edu/news

Quick Reference

Almanacs, Calendars, Statistics,  and Calculators

Dictionary of Measures, Units & Conversions
http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm
10,000-Year Calendar Perpetual calendar
http://calendarhome.com/tyc/
Old Farmer's Almanac 
http://www.almanac.com/

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Quotations, and Thesauri

Merriam-Webster 10th Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
Dictionary of Difficult Words
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995 
http://www.bartleby.com/62/
Thesaurus.com
http://www.thesaurus.com/
Glossarist.com Directory of glossaries on all subjects
http://www.glossarist.com/
All-in-One Quotation Search Page Search major quotation databases using their own forms from one page. 
http://quotations.about.com/library/blsearch.htm?once=true&
Acronym Finder 
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
Acronym and abbreviation server
http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html
Language Learning Library
http://www.languagelearninglibrary.org

Biographical Resources

Biography-center
http://www.biography-center.com/
Biographical Dictionary (short bios)
http://www.s9.com/biography/search.html

Miscellaneous Reference Sites

Frequently Asked Reference Questions Chicago PL
http://www.chipublib.org/008subject/005genref/gisquestion.html
Fugitive Fact File Hennepin County Library 
http://www.hclib.org/pub/search/fff_public.html
Urban Legends Reference Pages
http://www.snopes2.com/
Gary Prices's List of Lists 
http://www.specialissues.com/lol/
Behind the Name: Etymology and History of First Names
http://www.behindthename.com/
World Flag Database
http://www.flags.net/

Other Ready Reference Collections

Bartleby.com: Reference
http://www.bartleby.com/reference/
Gary Price's Fast Facts Almanacs, Factbooks, Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools 
http://www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm
IPL Ready Reference Collection: Reference
http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/ref00.00.00.html

Regional Libraries

North Adams Library
http://www.naplibrary.com/
Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield
http://www.berkshire.net/PittsfieldLibrary/
Springfield Public Library
http://www.springfieldlibrary.org/

Virtual Museums/Online Exhibits

Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=en
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/webtours.htm
Museum of Science, Boston
http://www.mos.org/exhibits/online_exhibits.html
National Museum of the American Indian
http://www.conexus.si.edu/
The Tech Museum of Innovation
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/
The Oriental Institute Museum
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/OI_Museum.html
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
http://www.rockhall.com/
The Bicycle Museum of America
http://www.bicyclemuseum

Science and Math Links

Astronomy
http://www.astronomy.com/home.asp
Audubon 
http://www.audubon.org/
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 
http://www.bullatomsci.org/
Natural History 
http://www.amnh.org/naturalhistory
Nature Magazine 
http://www.nature.com/nature
New Scientist 
http://www.newscientist.com/home.ns
New England Journal of Medicine 
http://www.nejm.org/
Popular Mechanics 
http://www.popularmechanics.com/
Science News 
http://sciencenews.org/
Science Magazine 
http://www.sciencemag.org/
Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/
Sky & Telescope 
http://www.skypub.com/

Weather Sites

The Weather Channel - Williamstown
http://www.weather.com/weather/local/01267?lswe=&lswa=&whatprefs=
The Weather Channel Hompepage
http://www.weather.com/twc/homepage.twc
National Weather Service
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/
Historical Weather Data - The Washington Post
http://www.weatherpost.com/historical/historical.htm
Climate & Weather Explained
http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/

History Sites

Scope Systems: ANYDAY Today-in-History PAGE Historical events & birthdays by day
http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/
dMarie Time Capsule Enter date and get 'snapshot' of year: news, songs, consumer prices, etc. 
http://dmarie.com/asp/history.asp?action=process
HyperHistory Online: History Timelines 
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
AlternaTime Collection of timelines on the web 
http://www2.canisius.edu/%7Eemeryg/time.html
The Food Timeline 
http://www.foodtimeline.org
US Historical Documents - A Chronology of US Historical Documents 
http://www.law.ou.edu/ushist.html
Internet History Sourcebooks Project - A Collection of Publicly Available Historical Texts
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

Genealogy Sites

Social Security Death Index
http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/
United States & States Vital Records Information 
http://vitalrec.com/index.html
Ellis Island Records Immigration records
http://www.ellisislandrecords.com/
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet 
http://www.cyndislist.com/
Cemeteries Junction - Directory of cemeteries in US & Canada
http://www.daddezio.com/cemetery/
FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service Search LDS Databases
http://www.familysearch.org/
U.S. Surname Distribution 
http://www.hamrick.com/names/
Heraldry on the Internet, Coats of Arms, Family Crests
http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/
USGenWeb Archives: United States Genealogy Links to all states & special projects
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/

Sites of the Week

Mass Government features libraries
http://www.mass.gov/
Looking for volunteer opportunities?
http://www.mass.gov/connectandserve
Film and TV facts: Searcable database for film information.
www.imdb.com
Fitness: Exercise routines for begiiner to advanced, log books for tracking, free with registration.
www.shapefit.com
Epicurious: Great recipes organized by ingredients or cuisine.
www.epicurious.com
Language Learning Library: Want to master a new skill?
http://www.languagelearninglibrary.org

Sites of Local Interest

Williamstown Homepage
http://www.williamstown.net/
Williams College
http://www.williams.edu/
Clark Art Institute
http://www.clarkart.edu/
WilliNet
http://www.willinet.org

Updated 12/07/2007