Chronicling America

View newspaper pages from 1900 to 1910 from the following states: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia.

Chronicling America is a prototype Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC)...

Favorite web sites

News librarians share their favorite web sites:
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory – for information and data on global warming

Quick facts: RefDesk.com; Library Spot;
How Stuff Works ;
CIA World Factbook

Free translations

For small newspapers - HomeTownNews and Topix.net
Nonprofits - Guidestar
Public records assistance - SearchSystems
For newspapers and magazines, Radio and TV: NewsLink

Weather Disasters

The National Climatic Data Center has a web page that lists events that have had the greatest economic impact since 1980. Check out Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters

Google Guide

GoogleGuide offers instruction on getting more out of your Google search. For example, you don't have to locate a web dictionary to look up words; just type define:word into the Google search box to get definitions of your word.

Other examples:
phonebook: Lucky32 NC - searches for Lucky 32'S phone numbers in North Carolina
rphonebook: jane smith VA - searches for all Jane Smith's in Virginia
movie: breach - searches for information about this movie, including reviews, showtimes, etc.

Web Resources for a Slow News Day

Not that today is a slow news day, but here are some places to look if it was:

• About.com Also a search engine, organized by subjects, includes current event topics - up now are links to Madi Gras
• Census Bureau's Newsroom includes facts for features, monthly & quarterly economic indicators, news releases about the nation's people and economy
• Yahoo Groups Organized by subjects - with millions of groups
• Glo Clubs Clubs and forums - connect with people who are passionate about...
• ivillage Grouped by subjects – from babies to work – also has magazines link.
• ScienCentral News: ScienCentral specializes in science and technology content. Some topics covered include environment, general sciences, genetics, health/medicine, space, technology.