Mona Lisa: Libraries & Bibliographies

• Academic Info is described as "a subject directory of Internet resources tailored to a college and university audience."
• An Atlas of Cyberspace covers different areas such as cables and satellites, trace routes, info maps, and web sites.
• Argus Clearinghouse is the Internet's research library where you can find whatever you need. Put out by Argus Associates.
• Chinese Collections Web Page makes it possible to pose reference questions directly to the Chinese studies librarian and to make requests for certain materials. It includes Chinese novels, journals, and newspapers, as well as links to important databases in Chinese studies.
• CHOICE (Current Reviews for Academic Libraries) reviews significant current books and electronic media of interests to those in higher education. Each year CHOICE publishes more than 6.500 reviews by subject experts.
• Great Scouts! provides a useful overview of important Web starting points across a variety of subjects.
• Guide to Grammar and Writing is a comprehensive guide for grammar and basic writing and contains a wealth of information. The grammar portion of the page gives rules and examples followed by quizzes. The composition portion of the page discusses paragraph development and the principles of essay composition. Put out by Capital Community - Technical College, Hartford, Connecticut.
• Internet Public Library is an excellent jumping-off point for anyone doing research on the internet. This site's main collections include: reference, exhibits, especially for librarians, magazines and serials, newspapers, on-line texts, and web searching, as well as extensive teens and youth collections.
• The Internet Scout Project shows the user the way to the best resources on the Internet. Librarians and educators do the filtering for the browser.
• Iowa Public Library Statistics offers the total expenditures, total collection, total circulation, total reference transactions, hours open per week, director's salary per hour, and total square feet.
• Marie Time Capsule lets you input any date and get a couple of pages of news headlines, sports events, top songs of that year, and average U.S. prices for a house, car, milk, gas, bread, and a postage stamp.
• OneLook Dictionaries allows for easy, quick word searches in more than six hundred online dictionaries.
• Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University is an easy to use website that is easy to navigate. Browsable by subject, illustration, advertising, date, and title, it is also searchable by more than 20 fields.
• TLT/Collaborative Change has developed the following materials that can be used to help annotate and describe Web-based resources.
• UNESCO Archives Portal is a new metasite from UNESCO which is offered as an international portal for both archivists and archive users. At present, the site includes 725 links to sites of archival institutions around the world and resources related to records and archives management.
• Webopedia is the number one online encyclopedia and search engine dedicated to computer technology.
• Women's Studies is an excellent database for anyone looking for information on women's studies or women's issues in general. It has everything from documents, and photos to conference announcements, calls for papers and employment opportunities. Courtesy of Larisa Kofman of University of Maryland.