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| Brunswick Community Library |
| 605 Brunswick Road, Eagle Mills, New York 12180 |
| Phone 518-279-4023 · Fax 518-279-0527 |
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| UHLS
Online Databases |
Upper Hudson Library System (UHLS) contracts for a number of exciting
databases, including The Columbia Granger's
World of Poetry Online, Grolier Online Encyclopedia, Hoover’s Online
(business and industry resource), Info Trac (health reference), Business
and Company Resource
Center, Custom Newspapers, New York State Newspapers, National Newspaper
Index, Informe (Spanish-language periodicals), Junior
Edition - K12, Twayne's Author Series, Learn a Test, Reference
USA (directory) and Times Union online. You will need your Brunswick
library card (or a card from any other UHLS member)
to use these databases. Go to the page from the link at left, click on
the database you want, and follow the instructions as they appear on your
screen. |
| Library
Reference |
Brunswick Library's own list of reference-oriented websites, including
general reference, government, medicine |
| Internet
Archive |
Fascinating historical archive of what the World Wide Web looked like
back in ancient times (say 1996). See what Brunswick
Library used to look like. The site has 100 terabytes of archived pages. |
| The Word
Spy |
This Web site [is] devoted to recently coined words and phrases, old
words that are being used in new ways, and existing words that have enjoyed
a recent renaissance. These aren't "stunt words" or "sniglets," but
new words and phrases that have appeared in newspapers, magazines, books,
press releases, and Web sites. |
Greater Capital Region
Human Services Directory |
The Greater Capital Region Human Services Directory contains valuable
information, such as profiles and contact information, on over 2,000 nonprofit
organizations, public agencies, self-help groups, and other community resources
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Directories
| Beaucoup |
Directory of Search Engines |
A good place to start searching |
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| Yahoo |
General Catalog/Engine |
Organized by humans; updated daily; some reviews available |
Busy during peak hours; commercialized |
Librarians'
Index
to the Internet |
General Catalog/Search Tool |
Organized by librarians; current, fun, and full of gems. |
Smaller than commercial sites. |
| FirstGov |
Catalog/Search Tool |
The first-ever government website to provide the public with
easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources.
Also has links to state and local governments |
| Thomas |
Special Purpose Search Engine |
Full-text search of all legislation in the United States
Congress, back to 1989. Includes links to the Congressional Record. |
| YourCongress |
Tracking Service and Information Source |
"YourCongress.com is the only site that combines irreverent articles,
behind-the-scenes information, and the revolution[ary] YourCongress.Watch
tracking services to give everyone an easy and entertaining way to find
out what's going on in Congress."
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MetaSearch Engines
| AskJeeves |
Allows natural language queries (for example, "Why
are computers difficult to use?") |
| Dogpile |
Searches several different search engines |
| ixquick |
"You can perform natural language or complex boolean searches with
Ixquick. Ixquick supports phrases, wildcards, omitted terms, must-have
terms, parentheses, and other modifiers such as NEAR, because Ixquick knows
which search engines can cope with which complex searches." Does pictures
and news; available in multiple languages |
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General Search Engines
| Alta Vista |
Very big |
| Google |
"Google uses sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages
that are both important and relevant to your search. For instance, when
Google analyzes a page, it looks at what those pages linking to that page
have to say about it. Google also assigns higher relevance to pages in
which your query terms appear near each other." |
| Hotbot |
Fast, big, excellent help section |
| Teoma |
"Instead of ranking results based upon the sites with the most links
leading to them, Teoma analyzes the Web as it is organically organized
... to determine which sites are most relevant." The search engine
which powers AskJeeves. |
| WiseNut |
"WiseNut's mission is to become the leading provider of advanced
technology and services in the Internet search market. ... The company's
patent-pending ranking technology has been heralded for its ability to
deliver exact results every time." |
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Usenet Search Engines
| Groups
at Google |
Best tool for searching Usenet. Easy to limit searches by date, group,
hierarchy, etc. Can also post. The archives go back through 1981 have been
re-posted.
Formerly Deja.com (formerly DejaNews.com) |
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Kid's Resources
| KidsClick |
Catalog for Children |
Organized by librarians; updated daily; high-quality and fun |
Still small. Try Yahooligans if you don't get any hits with KidsClick. |
| Yahooligans |
Catalog for Children |
Well-organized, well-maintained--a great homework site. |
Commercial, like Yahoo |
| Ben's Guide |
 "This
site provides learning tools [to] teach how our government works, the use
of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO
Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. Ben's Guide provides
[locator services] to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids." |
| Encyclopædia Britannica |
The world-famous reference source has gone online with a
free site. Britannica also has a subscription site at www.eb.com |
| WikiPedia |
A Wiki is "(n.)
A collaborative Web site comprised of the perpetual collective work of
many authors." The Wikipedia project is a collaborative
effort to create an online encyclopedia. It looks comprehensive, and the
articles are well-linked, so you can find additional information about
the contents. However, bear in mind its collaborative nature and the fact
that contributions can come from anywhere. |
| Periodic Table |
An online, interactive periodic table from Los
Alamos National Laboratory's Chemistry Division |
| Mapquest's World Atlas |
Maps of about anywhere in the world, along with capitals,
pictures of flags, population information. |
| CIA World Factbook |
A longtime useful print publication, the CIA has its facts
and figures about just about everything geopolitical online. Economy, population,
even flags!
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| highway.tv's World
Guide |
Need fast facts about a country for a report? Visit highway.tv's "Countries" Note
- uses popups |
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Book Sites
| Book Lovers' Sites |
Sites for anyone who loves books |
| The Internet Library |
Links to free public domain text files of books from libraries around
the world! |
| bartleby.com |
"The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and
verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with
unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge." |
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Gardening Site
| Gardening Sites |
How does your garden grow? Where can you go on the Internet to find out? |
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(A very few) Genealogy Sites
| Cyndi's
List |
Site Listing |
Categorizes and lists many many genealogy sites |
| Rootsweb |
Searches and Lists |
Has the Roots Surname List (thousands of surname queries); hosts US GenWeb,
numerous surname and area mailing lists. |
| FamilySearch |
Searches |
LDS (Mormon) Church - sponsored site for surname searches, other links |
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Newspapers
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Senior Sites
| Senior Sites |
Brunswick Library's own Sites for Seniors, with links ranging from Social
Security to entertainment |
| Seniors and
Libraries Connect |
Upper Hudson Library System's collection of links to local, internet,
money, health and more. |
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Music Sites
Old Songs Directory of
Folk Music Resources |
The Capital District's very own Old
Songs maintains a directory of folk
and traditional music resources |
| Music |
Brunswick Library's own links to music sites. Questions about Jimi Hendrix's 'Scuse
Me While I Kiss This Guy? You'll find an answer here! |
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Information in "quotes" comes from the site's self-description.