Selected Sites

Conservation On-Line (CoOl)

CoOL, a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries, is a full text database of conservation information. The databases cover a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials.

Committee on East Asian Libraries

is directed to the needs of librarians who must deal with the growing volume of Asian electronic information and should be useful for anyone interested in East Asia or in Asian studies.

Cybrary

from NSTN, features the Internet Public Library

Dialog Information Services

provides solutions to your information problems. It comprises over 450 databases containing over 330 million articles, abstracts, and citations -- covering an unequaled variety of topics, with particular emphasis on news, business, science, and technology.

ELISA

is the Electronic Library Service at Australia National University. This Gopher server offers links to Internet-based information, organized by subject.

Goddard Space Flight Center Library

In support of research and development, the Homer E. Newell Memorial Library provides access to scientific, technical and management information in both electronic and printed form.

Inovative Interfaces Libraries

a list of INNOPAC Libraries brought to you by Peter Scott of the University of Saskatchewan Libraries, in Saskatoon, Canada.

U.S. Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is beginning to use World Wide Web (WWW) to present information about and materials from its collections over the Internet. This project is in its infancy and will be developing over the next year. Some of the current LC WWW offerings include: photographic and sound collections from the American Memory Project, the African-American Culture and History online exhibit, Country Studies from the Federal Research Division, and access to LC MARVEL (LC's gopher-based campus-wide information system) and LOCIS(the Library of Congress Information System). In addition, the Library is developing a Global Electronic Library, which links to WWW meta indexes and search tools, federal government information, and eventually other WWW resources categorized by subject.

Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials

is compiled by Ann Thornton and Steve Bonario (University of Houston Libraries). This document offers access to information about electronic discussion lists, distribution lists and electronic serials which are of interest to library professionals and staff.

Library Without Walls

from North Carolina State University is modeled after a physical library and includes several different areas: The NCSU Libraries Information System provides the ability to search the catalogs of NCSU, UNC-CH, and Duke University, as well as a U.S. Government Documents file. The Reference Desk contains resources such as dictionaries, directories, indexes, and guides to subject literature as well as guides to the Internet. The Study Carrels contain various types of Internet resources organized according to subject disciplines. There is a collection of Electronic Journals and Books, full-text sources which may be read on screen or mailed to a user's own computer account. The Software Tools directory includes public-domain software and utilities to facilitate the use of Internet resources.

MLink

is an innovative project that brings the resources of the University of Michigan to the citizens of Michigan through their local public libraries.

National Libraries

The British Library * National Library of Australia * National Library of Canada * U.S. Library of Congress

OCLC Online Computer Library Center

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., is a not-for-profit computer library service and research organization. OCLC operates the PRISM service for cataloging and resource sharing, provides online reference systems for both librarians and end-users, and distributes online electronic journals. OCLC's goals are to increase the availability of library resources and reduce library costs for the fundamental public purpose of furthering access to the world's information.

Portico

is the British Library Online Information Server. A portico is defined as "a row of columns supporting a roof around or at the entrance of a building". Portico is The British Library's pilot online information server, providing network users with access to information about The Library's collections and services. It aims to be The Library's "electronic shop window" to the world.

St. Joseph County Public Library

(South Bend, Indiana) on March 14, 1994 became the first public library on the World Wide Web.

Association of Research Libraries

The mission of ARL is to identify and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL comprises the libraries that serve major North American research institutions and operates as a forum for the exchange of ideas and an agent for collective action.

Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG)

The Research Libraries Group, Inc. (RLG) is a not-for-profit membership corporation of universities, archives, historical societies, museums, and other institutions devoted to improving access to information that supports research and learning. Three of these services -- Eureka (an easy-to-use search system), RLIN (a library support system), and Zephyr (a Z39.50 service) provide access to RLG's bibliographic database and CitaDel article-citation files. RLG's Ariel software offers document delivery over the Internet.

Bartlett's Quotations

the full version and searchable!

CIA World Factbook

1993 & 1994 editions; from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Daily News Service

This daily news service is an online version of Sam Sternberg's DAILY NEWS - FREE INTERNET SOURCES, version 1.5. The resource includes freely accessible online newspapers, radio, television, and wire service news services.

Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters

from the Association of Research Libraries The 1994 edition of the Directory is a compilation of entries for nearly 1800 scholarly lists and some 440 electronic journals, newsletters, and related titles such as newsletter-digests -- an increase in size of about 70% since the third edition of April 1993 and 3.5 times since the first edition of July 1991. The directory provides instructions for electronic access to each publication. The objective is to assist the user in finding relevant publications and connecting to them quickly, even if he or she is not completely versed in the full range of user-access systems.

Electronic Reference Books

from the University of California Santa Cruz "InfoSlug"

Encyclopedia Britannica

Britannica Online is a fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's full encyclop¾dic database, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition), the Britannica Book of the Year, and more. However, the services are available by subscription only, with the exception of a free demo

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)

A dictionary of programming languages, tools, architectures, operating systems, networking, theory, acronyms, jargon, mathematics, telecomms, projects, institutions, companies, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing.

Geological Time Table

The time scale from 4600 million years ago to the present.

Michael Moncur's Quotations Page

is a collection of information and links regarding quotations, including a search function for quotes matching a keyword.

Periodic Table of the Elements

University of Kansas * University of California Berkeley * University of British Columbia * WebElements

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection

from the University of Texas at Austin, holds more than 230,000 maps covering every area of the world.

Rogets Thesaurus

University of Minnesota * NCSA * National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease * University of Oregon

Telephone Numbers

AT&T 800 Directory * AmeriCom Long Distance's Area Code Decoder

Times around the World

Need to know what time it is elsewhere?

US Constitution

full hypertext version from the Cornell Legal Information Institute

US Gazateer

is a gateway between the Geographic Name Server at martini.eecs.umich.edu:3000 and the World Wide Web, with links to maps from Xerox.

US Geographic Names Database

from the Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale University) includes a searchable index of 1,233,933 records corresponding to the labeled features that can be found on the 1:24,000 scale topographic maps of the US Geological Survey. The information is from a data system developed by the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the U. S. Board on Geographic Names. The National Geographic Names Data Base is the largest of the GNIS databases, containing records on almost two million geographic feature names in the United States: from populated places, schools, reservoirs, and parks, to streams, valleys, springs, and ridges.

University Microfilms International

offers Internet access to a subset of University Microfilms International's Dissertation Abstracts (DAI) Database. Also available is information on Copyright Law and the Doctoral Dissertation