Reference Tools
Reference Tools
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Yahoo! - Reference (Online Ready Reference Desk) |
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iTools.com (Search tools, language tools, research tools, financial tools, map tools, internet tools) |
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My Virtual Reference Desk (Comprehensive listing of sites by topic) |
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LibrarySpot |
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Bartleby Library (Searchable. Bartlett's Quotations, Inaugural Addresses of U.S. Presidents, Poetry, more) |
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Martindale's The Reference Desk |
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Hotsheet (Organized by subject. Many links.) |
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Gateway to Online Resources (University of Iowa) |
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Cyberary Literacy Center (A Literal Library Online) |
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Reporter's Desktop (Links to variety of tools) |
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SharpWriter (Writer's & reader's resource page) |
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Information Please (Encyclopedia, Almanacs, Dictionary) |
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Old Farmers Almanac |
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Netstate.com (Symbols, Almanacs, Geography, Maps of various types, Famous People, Newspapers, State Rankings, Tourism sites, Printable Flags, State Quarters) |
Atlases and Maps
 | World Atlas (Includes graphic maps; top 100 cities & countries; continents; many lists: largest, tallest, deepest, hottest, etc.; much more) |
| Tennessee Electronic Atlas |
| Tennessee Maps |
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Biography.com (A & E's Biography database) |
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Biography Center |
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Biographical Dictionary |
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The Nobel Foundation (Winners of the Nobel Prize, Nobel Foundation information) |
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Biographical Directory of U.S. Congress 1774 - present |
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Dead People Server (Find out if a noted personality is alive or dead) |
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Death List (predictions, actual deaths by year and photos) |
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Federal Judges Biographical Database |
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Inventors (Includes black inventors, women) |
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CalendarHome.com (Perpetual, Holidays & Celebrations, This Day in History, much more) |
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Calendar Zone (Directory of calendar-related resources on the Web) |
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Diversity Calendar (Ethnic, national holiday, religious, more) |
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Today-in-History (Birthdays, major events in history for every day of the year) |
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Today in Black History (Searchable by date or word) |
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Currency Exchange Rates |
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Foreign Currency Converter |
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Merriam-Webster Online (Dictionary, Thesaurus, International Business Communications) |
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One Look Dictionaries (Many special subject dictionaries) |
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Thesaurus.com |
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Acronym Finder (Acronyms and abbreviations) |
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American Sign Language Dictionary |
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Indo European Languages |
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Online Language Dictionaries and Translators (Large List of Dictionaries Online) |
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YourDictionary.com (Translation dictionary links, thesauri, specialty tools, links to more than 1,000 dictionaries in over 200 languages Afrikaans to Yiddish) |
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Translating Dictionary (German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Frisian, Afrikaans, Hungarian, Czech, Esperanto, English) |
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Translation of Letters or Documents (English to French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish) |
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Transparent Language Free Translations (English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese) |
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Rhyming Dictionary |
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Glossarist (searchable directory of glossaries and topical dictionaries) |
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Know Play (dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, world atlas, quotations, rhyming, artists, acronyms) |
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World Wide Words (History and curiosities of the English language) |
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Infospace (Search for residential & business phone numbers, fax numbers, email addresses in U.S. and Europe. Reverse directory feature) |
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Yahoo! - Reference: Phone Numbers and Addresses |
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Switchboard (Find people, businesses, e-mail) |
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ATT Directories (People, Business, Reverse lookup and Toll-Free directories from AT&T) |
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InfoUSA (Reverse lookup) |
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World Pages.com (Business by category & near an address, people search) |
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The Ultimates (white, yellow, e-mail) |
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Find It Faster (Telephone directory - Infospace) |
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Infobel.com (Search by country and language) |
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Area Codes.com |
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AnyWho (Business) |
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SuperPages.com (Verizon) |
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Bell South Real Pages.com |
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Yellow Page City: the official U.S. yellow pages |
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Yellow Pages (Canada) - Find a Business |
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Celebrity Addresses (links to network addresses) |
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Fansites |
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TV Program and Star Contacts |
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Internet Address Finder |
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E-Mail Washington (Pres, V.P., senators & representatives; e-mail addresses & forms) |
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AnyWho (People) |
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People Search on Who Where |
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Yahoo People page |
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AOL.com White Pages |
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Canada411 - Find A Person |
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AnyWho |
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Infospace |
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Reverse Address Directory |
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AnyWho (Toll Free) |
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800 Directory ( A simple to use, searchable 800 directory for businesses) |
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World Telephone Directories (Detailed listing of online white pages, yellow pages) |
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Hansaprint (Telephone pages from Around the World) |
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U.S. Postal Service Zip+4 Lookup |
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Encyclopedia.com( powered by e-library) |
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Encarta.com (MSN Learning and Research) |
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Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture |
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Encyclopedia Britannica |
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Encyclopedia Mythica (Mythology, folklore, legend) |
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LookLex/Encyclopaedia (formerly Encyclopedia of the Orient) |
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Encyclopedia of Symbols (Allows word search or graphic search) |
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Infoplease |
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Sponsored by UT at Martin) |
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |
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Library Web Pages Around the World |
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Libraries on the Web |
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Library of Congress |
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Tennessee State Library and Archives |
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Robert's Rules of Order |
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Bartleby.com/verse (Indexed chronologically and by author, title, first line) |
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.1919 (Bartleby.com) |
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Creative Quotations |
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Literature Quotations |
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Quoteland.com (Contemporary notables) |
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Quotations Page |
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Yahoo! - Reference : Quotations (Links to many sources of quotations) |
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Style/Usage Manuals (Resources for Writers: English grammar, style manuals, research guides, information on how to cite sources including electronic ones; MLA, APA, much more.) |
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Citation and Bibliography Formats (Style Manuals, APA, MLA, electronic sources) |
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Citing Electronic Sources |
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Chicago or Turabian Style |
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Grammar Slammer |
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Greenwich Mean Time |
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Measure 4 Measure -Calculators and Estimators (Links to sites that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc., for you) |
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Calculate Me (temperature, weight, exchange rates and more) |
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Asknumbers.com (conversions between different metrics of length, weight, temperature, pressure, energy, frequency and more) |
| Digital Gallery (275,000 images from New York Public Library) |