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Digital facsimile images for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers. Includes The Galveston Daily News from 1874 until 1897.
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Find picture books on specific subjects.*
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Guide for the academic job hunter.
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Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for.
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The largest electronic collection of biographical information on African Americans from 1790 to1950.*
A full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of African Americans, as well as the greater Black Diaspora by providing rock-solid information from authorities in the field and allowing African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources.
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An online music listening service documenting the history of African American music in various genres.
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Find doctors by name or specialty.
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National employment site serving employers and job seekers. Provides links to all state employment sites.
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Index of articles from thousands of journals.*
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A site providing bank interest rates for mortgages, loans, credit cards, various accounts, and certificates of deposit.
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Short fiction produced by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora from the earliest times to the present compiled from early literary magazines, archives, and the personal collections of the authors.*
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An electronic collection of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders covering 250 years of history including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trail transcripts.*
Presents literature and essays by authors from Africa and the African Diaspora.*
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An easy acess point to some of the top book-related sites, including information on awards and recommended reading.
Offers new ways to explore the endless possibilities and combinations of books, authors, genres and topics. Please Note: If you receive a message that the webpage can not be found, refresh your webpage. *
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Scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.*
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Online version of the Wall Street Journal's National Business Employment Weekly.
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Directory of selected names in cemeteries around the United States and other countries.
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Houston Public Library's Genealogical Collection.
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The latest information and current trends in high technology.*
Find your elected federal representatives by Zip code, or research current issues and legislation. (FF)
Comprehensive U.S. legislative information. If fulltext is not available online, check with the Central Library's Social Sciences Department for print availability.*
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Features full-text consumer-oriented health information.*
Major documents of the United States from 1776 to the present.
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More than 100 countries are described and analyzed as to their political, economic and social institutions.
Directory of arts and crafts sites on the Internet.
Cultural reports for more than two hundred countries each include 25 categories. Also includes state and provenience reports.*
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Searchable archive of the Dallas Morning News.
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Database of celebrities that includes a grave finder and obituaries.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online features profiles of more than 143,000 past and present authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. The biographies discuss the lives and careers of the literary figures profiled, along with the critical response to their works.
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Chinese language periodical database.*
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Find article-level access for thousands of E-Journals available through EBSCO's Electronic Journal Service (EJS).
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Worldwide directory of embassies, consulates, and U.N. missions.
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Search or verify federal school codes
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; Bible Gateway; Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation; Greek Mythology; Virtual Religion Index; Writers Handbook-Documentation Styles
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Federal Emergency Management Agency information in Spanish about floods and flooding.
A comprehensive Financial Aid Information Page.
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Directory of lawyers by state, by name, and by practice area, as well as tips on how to choose the right one.
Collection of resources and contact information for flooding in the Houston area.
Almost 40 million images of primary source materials. Many are available here for the first time.
Weekly updated online directory of foreign government officials published by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Program details and application guidelines for leading foundations as well as sponsoring company information for corporate givers.
Find sources for scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards and other financial support for individuals.
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Includes Ward's Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies, Encyclopedia of Associations, Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media, and National Directory of Nonprofit Organizations.*
Legal forms specific to Texas.*
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A subdivision of Reference USA offering company profiles and industry information on international businesses.
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Catalog of titles published by agencies of the U.S. Government since 1976.*
Official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.
A list of phone numbers or E-Mail addresses or Web sites which you can contact for answers to short questions about writing.
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Information on the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology.
Articles on all aspects of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic and decorative arts, photography - from prehistory to the present. *
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Encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture.
Connect with information services and people in Harris County Government.
Useful guidelines for property owners and the database of appraisal records. (FF)
Provides helpful contact information regarding flooding in Harris County.
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Multi-source database for health and wellness research.*
Provides information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.*
Scholarly full text journals, abstracts, and indexes focusing on many medical disciplines.*
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U. S. Federal census records and other research materials for tracing family lineages.*
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Over 800 companies' annual reports (1844-current) available through searchable pdf images.*
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Hoover's is now available in our ProQuest database.*
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The official website of the Houston Chronicle Newspaper
Full text articles from the Chronicle from 1985 to the present.*
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Directory of goods and services in Houston.
City ordinances.
Employer and employee services and resume marketing.
A publication of the Greater Houston Partnership.
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Information on dealing with all emergencies, including a section on floods.
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Alternative weekly with an agenda-driven approach to no-holds-barred news.
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Lawyers providing pro bono service to low-income residents of Harris County.
Jobs for programmers, DBAs, analysts, and other computer professionals. Submit your resume for automatic job matching.
Clear explanations, diagrams, and links for parts and functions of common technology, machines, and other things we see every day.
Employment site for ethnic minorities. Job posting and resume posting available.
Links to white pages, yellow pages, toll free, and criss-cross directories all over the world.
Combines the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, and several up-to-the-minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records.
Database in the areas of information science.*
Collection of journals focused on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture.*
Collection of journals providing researchers with current information on the scientific developments -- including such topics as particle physics, advanced mathematics, and nanotechnology.*
Collection of home-improvement focused titles, covering such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.*
Provides broad view of the insurance and liability industry, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more.*
Newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including several Texas newspapers. Dates of coverage vary with start dates beginning January of 1996.*
Provides access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics.*
Compilation provides insights, tips, strategies and success stories in full-text periodicals.*
Collection of journals provides coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism field.*
Collection provides content from general career guides to highly specialized industry journals. *
Provides abstracts and indexing for literature related to personal computing products and developments in business, the Internet, the home, and all other applied areas.*
Explains the basics for getting started on the Internet.
A compendium of laws: U. S. states, other countries, and treaties.
Search for informatin about movies by cast, characters, title, year, etc.
How-to guides for understanding and using the Internet.
Colleges and universities by location, type of institution, and areas of study.
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Federal tax forms back to 1990.
If your adjusted gross income was $54,000 or less in 2007, you can use Free File to prepare and e-file your taxes online.
Jewish Genealogical resource that includes 500,000 records including images of tombstones, school yearbook pages and Citizen Declaration documents.*
Online job search resources and services.
Employment service for the Houston area.
Online salary and cost of living surveys both general and by profession.
Daily updated local job opportunities.
Links jobs, job seekers and job search information. Target audience is recent college graduates.
Scholarly journal archive.*
Get help shopping for used cars.
A search interface with a child-friendly, graphically-rich design that automatically searches across all applicable EBSCO databases simultaneously.*
Free online knitting how-to videos.
Online directory of knitting patterns.
Knitting patterns, articles, and faqs.
Business to business import and export directory of 2.2 million companies from 70 countries.
Dates, locations, registration, and preparation for the LSAT.
Martindale Hubbell Law Directory
Houston voting information, including a Voters Key, voter registration info, election day precinct locations, and more.
Interactive practice exams as well as a Job and Career Center. Include TAKS, GED, SAT, civil service, ASVAB, law enforcement, real estate and basic skills tests.*
Full-text of scholarly law journals.*
Allows users to find book Lexile levels with a title search or to find titles with a specific Lexile level.
Find libraries and library catalogs on the web.
Holdings of our national library and the research arm of Congress.
Lists the letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification system.
Catalog your books online.
Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.
Literary Reference Center combines information from over 1,000 books, major literary encyclopedias and reference works, and hundreds of literary journals.*
Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review.
Biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors and their works.*
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Learn a language and make friends in the process.
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Online knitting magazine.
Mango immerses you in real, everyday conversations in Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian and Spanish or learn ESL for Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Spanish.*
Articles from general interest and current events magazines appropriate for school assignments.
Articles covering all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.*
Full-text Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals.*
Web database to search for articles in medical journals, via PubMed or Internet Grateful Med.*
Information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 500 diseases and conditions.
MEDLINEplus es el portal de Internet de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina de informacion de salud para el publico.
Careers at a major hospital and medical group.
Business descriptions, corporate histories and financial statements for over thousands of U.S and international public companies.*
Access to an archive of corporate and industry related documents.*
Online English language dictionary and thesaurus.
Links to thousands of newspapers and magazines around the world.
Articles covering general topics appropriate for middle school students.*
Articles from periodicals related to the military.*
Full Text Journals about the military and intelligence.*
Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database provides information on approximately 1,600,000 U.S. and Canadian public and private businesses.*
The Modern Language Association's definitive bibliography on topics related to language and literature. Some full text.*
Comprehensive international online job search and recruitment site. Resume posting and relocation material available.
Investment data and analyst reports.*
Site for beginning computer users to practice with the mouse.
Guides for using Microsoft Word.
Online news source.
Free price information on new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, vans, boats, and other vehicles.
Official weather warnings, observations and forecasts.
Contains information on conditions, natural and alternative treatments, herbs and supplements, and drug interactions.*
Read and download e-books and audio books on Education, Science, History, Texas State etc.*
Download audiobooks from Recorded Books for listening to in Windows Media Audio format. Separate account set-up in netLibrary is required.*
Among the 12,000 entries in the encyclopedia are articles on theology, philosophy, history, literary figures, saints, musicians and much more.
Genealogical data from the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Full page view of the New York Times from its first issue in 1851 through 2002.*
Links to online newspapers across the United States.
Links to the Web sites of newspapers from all over the U.S. and around the world.
Offers full text of regional, national, and international newspapers, plus transcripts of television and radio programs.*
A listing of the new NAICS codes, with correspondence tables for NAICS to SIC (Standard Industrial classification) and SIC to NAICS.
Online resource for helping teachers, school media specialists and kids find that next great fiction or nonfiction book to read. Includes Lexile scores.*
A complete readers resource with information on well over 200,000 fiction and readable nonfiction titles.
Currency converter.
Job outlook information for hundreds of occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Database of periodicals owned by libraries around the world; includes libraries that own the periodicals.
Crossword puzzle dictionary.
Access this source by choosing "International" from the Reference USA homepage.
A directory of newspaper Web sites throughout the world.
Contains 40 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.*
Job listings and career information for the non-profit sector.
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Includes articles, maps, and timelines about African Americans.*
Online version of the Oxford English Dictionary, including the complete Second Edition and the New Edition in progress.
Index to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Information about colleges, graduate school, financial aid, careers, private secondary schools, and much more.
Contains records of over 2,200 images. This collection highlights historical events and glances of day-to-day life in Houston from the 1860s to the 1960s.
Information on United States Presidents.
Digital images of over 200 papers from 55 countries around the world. The latest 45 days are available.*
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Articles from children's magazines and pamphlets; designed for the elementary school student.*
Table of contents records for papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Articles for professional educators.*
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Contains searchable works of literature, author biographies, contemporary criticism, reviews, multimedia resources, and articles from literary periodicals for students K-12.
Offers more than 10.5 million obituaries and death notices in full-image format from uninterrupted historical archives of top newspapers.*
Full-text coverage of topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.*
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Index of the most popular general-interest periodicals published between 1963 through 1982.*
Book lists and discussion guides for reading groups.
Preparedness information from the Department of Homeland Security.
Website that indexes free resources.
Business database of U.S. businesses; also includes an international business database, a residential database, new movers database (residential) and new businesses database.*
Business database of U.S. businesses; also includes an international business database, a residential database, new movers database (residential) and new businesses database.
Articles from regional business publications.*
One-stop website to find, view, and comment on Federal regulations and other Federal actions.
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Includes the Encyclopedia of Religion which emphasizes religion's role within everyday life and the Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices which provides information on current religious practices around the world.*
Rhyming dictionary.
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An index to employment opportunities and job resources on the Internet.
Many sources and links for genealogical researchers.
In-depth drug information.
Pay scale for Federal jobs in 30 cities and rural areas.
This relocation tool compares the cost of living in hundreds of U.S. and international cities.
Detailed salary information for a wide range of jobs sorted by occupation and region, and additional career advice, news and resources.
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Free scholarship award database contains more than 3 million scholarships worth more than $16 billion. It is expanded and updated daily.
Consumer Health Complete database of health information in Spanish.*
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Full-text, indexing, and abstracts to journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science.
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Gateway to government science information provided by US Government science agencies, including research and development results.
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Up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information as well as current pricing structures for popular serials.*
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Full text of Shakespeare's plays.
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Includes documents, newspaper collections, and books from the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world published in the antebellum.*
Information and services offered by the SBA.
Small business management resources from periodical and reference works including business sample plans and legal forms.*
Archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.*
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Something About the Author Online brings you thousands of illustrated biographical profiles of children's authors and illustrators totaling more than 12,000 entries and nearly 17,000 images.
Is a digital collection of over 600 documents: personal narratives, pamphlets, political speeches, sermons, plays, songs, poetic and fictional works published between the 17th and late 19th centuries.*
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News from Houston/Harris Country Sports Authority.
A searchable database of SIC codes.
Clinical information from more than 35 medical texts.*
The most comprehensive information about lawyers licensed to practice in Texas.
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Statistics concerning health, agriculture, business & industry, cost of living, demographics, the sciences, sociology, politics, foreign governments, and more.
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Provides students with support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more.*
Texas state regulations by topic.
Searchable database of finding aids to archival materials in Texas, including those of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center.
Use this on-line application to apply for admission to any public college or university in Texas.
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Sanborn maps are large scale plans of a city drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch. They were created to assist fire insurance companies as they assessed the risk associated with insuring a particular property.*
Helpful statistics and information about Texas and its government.
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Full text journals and books about Texas history, biography, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure.*
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Public and private sector jobs listed with the Texas Workforce Commission. Education and training opportunities which lead to employment.
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Preparation manuals and study guides for the TExES and ExCET examinations.
Business and residential directories.
Online streaming video of plays and film documentaries.*
Thomas Register's free online supplier/finder index of manufacturers. Access requires registration.
Time zones and calendars, including a perpetual calendar.
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This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in todays classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.*
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Detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world.*
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Descriptions and contact information for all branches, departments, and agencies of the federal government.
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The United States government's official web portal.
Network of volunteers working to create a center for genealogical research for every county in the United States.
Zip code look-up.
The Value Line Investment Survey is a weekly independent investment information service.
Employment opportunities with a large telecommunications company.
Links for research on religion from ancient times to the present.
This collection provides full text coverage for trade and industry-related periodicals.*
The financial newspaper of record-- offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance from 1982 to -current.*
Full page view of the Wall Street Journal from 1889-1989.*
The latest 45 days are available.*
Gives graphic view of weather conditions.
Current and historical weather.
A periodic table of elements with description, history, uses, atomic structure, and additional detailed information for each element.
Learn about the World Wide Web -- browsers, addresses, navigating, search strategies, e-mail, and many more-advanced topics.
Provides better health through health information in everyday language.
CPI and inflation rates with a cost of living calculator.
Texas elected officials and the districts they represent.
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. It includes information on obscure topics that cannot be found elsewhere. However, the information provided is not always the most authoritative. Use it and decide for yourself!
Full text articles in science, humanities, education and business.*
Online French, Spanish, German, and Italian Dictionary.
Offers a global look at history with full text content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.*
Virtual tour of museums around the world with information on collections, current exhibits and more.
Catalog of library materials owned by libraries around the world.*
Up-to-the minute stock quotes and other financial news.
Nationwide local yellow pages.
Find a bilingual, multilingual or specialized dictionary from a list of over 600 dictionaries.
People and free public information search engine.
Web summaries on people, companies, etc.