This recommended directory of sources primarily contains other institutions'
list of lists for each subject area. The Web page is divided into the following
categories:
Kentucky
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- Directory of
Public Libraries has links for those public libraries with Web pages.
Source: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Internet Public Library offers
Web pages for kids, internet instruction, general reference tools, and
numerous sources for public librarians.
- Larry's Home
Page provides a veritable plethora of information relevant to librarians
(links to Libweb, government document librarianship pages, ALA). Contains
links on many different subjects and links to search engines, etc.
Source: Larry Schankman, Main Library, Mansfield University
- Librarian's
Library offers up library humor, trivia, photos, quotes, tricks of the
trade, holidays, lyrics, and "cool" library sites. Source:
DRA
- Library of Congress Home
Page contains pointers to Federal legislation, LC's holdings, current
exhibits, copyright, etc.
- Library of Congress: Thomas offers
searches of on-line Federal legislative information.
- Libweb: Library Servers Via
WWW provides worldwide library links.
- Librarians'
Professional Resources connects to indexes, topics in library science,
various types of libraries and collections, and computers.
- National Library Service for the Blind
and Physically Handicapped. Source: Library of Congress.
- Networked
Resources presents a collection of library information resources.
Source: Northwestern University.
- Solinet - Southeastern Library
Network.
- The State Library
Gopher and Web Listing points to state library agencies in each state.
Source: Nebraska Library Commission.
- University of
Louisville Libraries.
- University of Kentucky
Libraries.
- Yahoo - Index of
Libraries maintains extensive links to various types of libraries.
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Archives and
Preservation
- Archival, Genealogical, and Historical Web and Gopher
Sites provides a list of archival sites. Source: Larry Lynch,
Special Collections (lynchld@uwec.edu).
- Archival Hot Links annotates archival
and preservation resources. Source: Utah State Archives.
- Archives & Archivists (WWW-List) provides a
LISTSERV list and Web sites for the international archival community.
Source: Donna B. Harlan & John B. Harlan.
- Disaster
preparedness and response contains a Primer on Disaster Preparedness,
Management And Response: Paper-Based Materials, as well as to links to
experts at a variety of institutions. Source: Stanford
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- Kentucky Archives and Special
Collections takes users directly to home pages or gopher menus for special
collections and archives in Kentucky. Source: University of Louisville.
- Repositories of Primary Sources on
the Web is a comprehensive listing of archival web sites available, with
over 900 Web sites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books,
historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.
Source: Terry Abraham of the University of Idaho.
- RLIN AMC File is a
searchable catalog with over 400,000 descriptions of archival and manuscript
collections, including 14,000 from Kentucky institutions known as the Kentucky Guide
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State and Local Government
- Area Development
On-line describes economic development activities by organizations in each
of the fifty states.
- Commonwealth of Kentucky WEB Server.
- Council
of State Governments offers lists of affiliated organizations, relevant
publications, and the States Information Center (SIC) provides a free inquiry
and reference service to state government officials and CSG Associates in the
50 states and five U.S. territories.
- Government- State and
Local has state legislative bill search capabilities for numerous
states. Source: The Internet Sleuth.
- KDLA Alphabetical
List of Kentucky State Agency Web Sites provides a list of links by
keyword in the title of the state agency. Source: Kentucky Department
for Libraries and Archives.
- The Lincoln Trail Region - Local
Government provides links to Web sites in Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin,
LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, and Washington counties as part of their
"Televillage" initiative.
- NASIRE
State Search offers over 1,750 entries in governmental categories such as:
Auditors, Criminal Justice, Education, Libraries and Records Management, and
Tourism.
- Regional
Economic Information System, 1969-1993 provides economic data for states,
counties, and metropolitan areas for 1969-1993. Statistics in the data base
include: personal income by source, per-capita personal income, earnings by
two digit SIC code, full and part-time employment by industry, and regional
economic profiles. Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis.
- State and Local
Governments provides "meta-indexes", as well as lists of sites by state.
Source: Library of Congress.
- State and Local Government Webs
provides a list of agencies within each state. Source: Yahoo.
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- Federal WEB Locator provides links to federal
government information on the Internet such as, U. S. Bureau
of the Census, and The White House Web Server , as well as many others
organized by branch of government (including judicial, congressional,
independent, and international sites). The Web page also contains a search
mechanism that facilitates searching for individual agencies. Source:
The Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy.
- FedWorld provides links to Federal agencies, and fee
based access to federal government scientific and technical reports through
its National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Source: U.S.
Commerce Department.
- Federal Government Information on the
Internet lists federal with state and local government under separate
pages for each letter of the alphabet. Source: Government Publications,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
- FIE Federal Information
Exchange provides access to numerous federal Web sites, including FEDIX,
an agency, subject and/or audience listing for all three branches of the
federal government.
- FinanceNet deals with issues of
fiscal finance and provides electronic documents and mailing lists.
- Government Information Exchange assists Internet
users in navigating E-mail and telephone routes through directories. Includes
resources for U.S. Federal, state, local, and international information.
Source: U.S. General Services Administration.
- Government Information Locator Service (GILS)
identifies and describes information resources throughout the Federal
government, and provides assistance in obtaining the information. GILS
supplements other government and commercial information dissemination
mechanisms, and uses international standards for information search and
retrieval so that information can be retrieved in a variety of ways.
- Government Printing Office provides access to
congressional and some executive Branch resources printed by GPO.
- Government Servers lists
international, national, regional, and local governmental and
government-related servers on the Internet.
- Area Studies lists
U.S. Federal sites under "America". While the countries are listed
alphabetically, the entries for each country are not alphabetical.
Source: Keele University.
- World Wide Web
Resources - United States Government has both a general and specific
resources section, as well as a new sites added. Source: University of
Kentucky.
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Genealogy
- Genealogical Resources Elsewhere
on the Internet. Source: National Archives and Records
Administration.
- Genealogy Resources on the Internet
covers genealogical resources in the U.S. and abroad. Access to FTP,
telnet, and gopher sites, as well as bulletin boards, mailing lists, news
groups, and LISTSERVs is offered. Source: University of Michigan .
- Genealogical
Resources Hot Links annotates entries for a wide range of sources.
Source: Utah State Archives.
- Genealogy has built-in
database searching to: Kentucky Records, Kentucky Death Index for 1911-1986,
Kentucky Death Index for 1987-1992, Kentucky Marriage Index for 1973-1993, and
Kentucky Divorce Index for 1973, as well as numerous national databases.
Source: The Internet Sleuth.
- GENEALOGY: Part of the
History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers. Source: Exec-PC.
- Kentucky Explorer
Magazine offers monthly genealogical features, queries, historical
photographs, links to Web sites, descriptions of books/projects completed by
readers, and lists of historical societies in Kentucky. The Web site contains
a sizable sampling of this subscription magazine's genealogical resources.
- Kentucky Genealogical
Society .
- Kentucky
Genealogy provides access to a growing number of county pages throughout
Kentucky. Source: J. Murphy.
- The Library of Virginia
Genealogy Home Page provides numerous useful links for Kentucky
genealogists, including the Library's own Digital Library Project.
- Sources of Genealogical
Information in the U.S.A. Source: Everton's Genealogical helper.
- Tips on Genealogy.
Source: U. S. Census Bureau.
- Top Ten Genealogy
Websites Nominees Family Chronicle is surveying experienced websurfers to
determine which of the web's 1,300+ genealogy sites are not to be
missed. Source: Family Chronicle.
- World Wide Web
Resources - Genealogy provides Kentucky specific databases, in addition to
many of the standard genealogical sites. Source: University of
Kentucky.
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Search Services, Directories,
etc.
- Search.com (c/net) Contains search
engines for 250 search tools including some of those below:
- Alta Vista provides fast full-text searches, both
simple and advanced (Full Boolean), for over 21 million Web pages. Broad
searches in this search engine may result in too long a list to effectively
browse. It also provides a full-text index of more than 13,000 newsgroups.
- Excite provides full-text search for
about 1.5 million Web pages. The user can search by keyword or by 16 or more
menu categories and then sort the results by site. Excite's team of expert
journalists offer reviews of 55,000 sites.
- Deja News Research Service is advertised as the
"Premier Usenet Search Service" finding the topic you're interested in by a
weighted search criteria that sorts the information based on the number of
occurrences of the word for which you are looking.
- HotBot Search the entire Web with 54
million documents. HotBot provides graded non-menu oriented searches.
- The Internet Sleuth has a hierarchy
of subjects as well as elaborate search tools, including a search of other Web
Search Engines.
- Infoseek
has a heirarchy of subjects, a search engine called "Ultraseek," and a
personalized profile capability.
- Lycos Search provides simple keyword searches for
over 19 million Web pages or limits by categories in A2z search. The "Point"
service also provides a rating system (Content, Presentation, Experience) and
reviews for each site, and sorting of lists by the highest rated site first.
PC World magazine recently rated Lycos best of the top 11 Internet search
engines in both quality of information and relevancy of results.
- Magellan, in addition to the standard keyword
searching, allows the user to limit searches by a rating system and also lets
the user screen out sites that are only for mature audiences. The user can
also control the length of the description and the number of entries per page.
- Yahoo search The hierarchical nature of the menu
choices in this search engine provides an effective way to easily limit broad
searches.
- Yellow Pages facilitates subject access to Web sites
similar to the company's directory published in paper format.
- WWW Virtual Library is a
distributed subject catalogue. See Category
Subtree, Library
of Congress Classification (Experimental), Top Ten most popular fields
(Experimental), Statistics (Experimental), and Index. See also arrangement by
service type, and other subject catalogues of network information .
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Historical Documents and Texts
- American Memory
features "Historical Collections for the National Digital Library."
Source: Library of Congress.
- Chronology of U.S.
Historical Documents groups documents (Magna Carta through Clinton's State
of the Union) by historical period. Source: University of
Oklahoma Law Center.
- Documenting the American
South contains narratives on slavery, diaries/memoirs, autobiographies,
and other resources on southern Americana. Source: University
of North Carolina.
- Electronic Text Archives
and Resources. Source: International Federation of
Library Associations and Institutions.
- E-text
Archives lists some sites by topic and a few by author. Source:
Stefan Petersson.
- Full-Text
Archives of Publications of Scholarly Societies Source:
University of Waterloo.
- Historical
Resources for Archives includes an extensive list of national and Utah
related Web sites, as well as professional organizations.
Source: Utah State Archives.
- Historical
Text Archive is a treasure trove of
digitized historical documents and links to historical documents (including
the WPA texts) where you can read the terms of the German and Japanese
surrender that ended WWII or a U.S. Civil War document.
Source: Mississippi State
University.
- Lit Links E-Text
Archives provides links to literary figures mostly from
England and Canada. Source: University of Alberta.
- Online Books Page
contains Online Book Repository
(OBR), a large collection of text and related materials ranging from
Shakespeare and The Bible to novels, poetry, standards documents, etc, as well
as references to other text archives. Source: John Mark
Ockerbloom.
- Text Archives on the
Internet references a limited number of text projects.
Source: Educational Technology Services.
- Web
Libraries provides a wide ranging list of data and text archives located
in American universities. Source: Bookwatch.
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History
- Center for History and News
Media contains Web sites lists on the following topics: Archives, Museums,
and Libraries; Best of the History Web; Databases and Links; Discussion Lists;
History Departments Around the World; Journals; Net Search; News; Oral
History; Organizations; and Publishers. Source: Collaboration
between George Mason University, the American Social History Project, and the
Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York.
- Essays in
History. Source: Corcoran Department of History, the
University of Virginia.
- Gateway
to World History links
to documents, geographically organized history links, and links to maps and
history exhibits, and other history related Web sites. Source:
The New England Regional World History
Association.
- Historical Demographic, Economic
and Social Data of the U.S., 1790-1860. Search each of the decennial
census pages by selecting variables you want to view. Choose to see county
data, state data, or both. Source: Inter-university
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
- History
provides history related resources, divided by historical period, as well as
by topic. Source: Infoseek.
- History for
Kids features The Great American Landmarks
Adventure,a collection of drawings of National Historic
Landmarks--special places that show who "we the people" are and where we came
from. Source: History Channel.
- History
Happens has stories
from American history on music videos. Source: Electron Farm
Publications.
- H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences
On-line provides information and resources for all those interested in the
Humanities and Social Sciences, and serves as a central information storehouse
for H-Net's extensive network of e-mail lists.
- Index of Resources
for Historians contains a large list of sites arranged alphabetically by
subject and name. Source: Department of History of the
University of Kansas.
- The History Computerization
Project fosters the creation of a history information network for the
exchange of historical information. Source: The Regional
History Center of the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles City
Historical Society, and the Conference of California Historical Societies.
- Kentucky Biographies
Project contains collected short biographies in a prescribed format with
county and last name indexes. Source: Jeff Murphy and
volunteers.
- Notable Citizens of Planet
Earth is a biographical dictionary searchable by name, date, or
topic. Source: The Parallax Group.
- Time
Table of American History provides Time Table of American History; and
First-hand Accounts & Documents, both of which are searchable by keyword.
Source: Infobases, Inc.
- World Wide Web
Resources: History is grouped by general, U.S., and
non-U.S. resources. Source: University of Kentucky.
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Children's Literature and
Children's Librarians
- Books for Children and
More compiles links to resources for writers, editors, teachers,
librarians, parents, and others--children's book people.
Source: Interportnet, Harold D. Underdown .
- Child Safety on the
Information Highway is a good guide for parents, librarians and teachers.
It includes guidelines for parents, and a section for kids called "My rules
for online safety." Source: National Center for Missing and
Exploited Children.
- Connections
includes "Books to Read Online" as well as connections for students,
parents, and teachers. Source: Kentucky Department of
Education.
- Cooperative
Children's Book Center has book reviews, lists of CCBC publications and
links to CCBC publications on the Web like "Twenty Five Multicultural Books
Every Child Should Know," comprehensive book awards (more comprehensive than
Caldecott and Newberry awards) - includes Jane Addams Book Award, the Boston
Globe/Horn Book Awards, Carter G. Woodson Award by the National Council for
Social Studies, and quite a few others.
- Discovery Zone: Kids and
the Internet brings resources together to assist librarians in discovering
and using resources for kids on the Internet. Source: Canton
Public Library's Internet Specialist, Patrick Persons.
- Kay Vandergrift's Special Interest Page
a "classic site" with lists of recommended children and young adult
literature, as well as research studies and the history of children's
literature. Source: Rutgers University.
- Kid's Net provides educational, museum,and ""just for fun" web links that
are represented as suitable for children.
Source: Access Indiana Information Network.
- Kid's Web: Literature is divided into types of
literature. Source: Paul Coddington, Northeast Parallel
Architectures Center, Syracuse University.
- Kidstuff Children's Publishing offers a safe
place for children to publish their stories and read letters from fans around
the world.
- OH!
Kids groups selections by age, subject, and type of
resource. Source: Ohio Public Library Information Network
(OPLIN).
- The
Children's Literature Web Guide
is probably one of the most comprehensive children's
literature sites anywhere. Source: University of Calgary in Canada.
- The Internet Advocate is probably one of the most informative sites for
libraries offering public Internet access. This site guides users through
responding to concerns about porn on the Internet (and alternatively Positive
Examples of Youth Internet Use), options for providing access (as in whether
or not to use filtering software), and helping librarians advocate on behalf
of the good stuff on the Internet.
- Storytime offers
indexes based on story titles and based on the TV show that used the
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Ready Reference
- Hotsheet has numerous
sources for non-academic topics frequently asked at a reference desk.
Source: Impresso.
- Internet Quick
Reference. Source: Rochester Hills Public Library.
- Martindale's the
Reference Desk indexes general reference Web resources for education,
science, politics, and literature. Source:
Jim Martindale.
- MEGASOURCES has a
comprehensive list of information and journalism resources. Source:
Dean Tutor, Professor, School of Journalism,
Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, Canada.
- Needle in a
CyberStack , is an "InfoFinder tool" which makes the internet much more
accessible for students, teachers, and patrons of a school library. Links are
arranged in a table of topics. Source: John Albee.
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- Newslink offers lists of
newspapers, magazines, television and radio sites by region and subject.
Source: American Journalism Review.
- Ready
Reference. Source: Larry's Pages.
- Ready Reference Collection
contains ready reference sources organized by category. Source:
Internet Public Library.
- Reference
Resources contains tools found useful by the Ekstrom Library Reference
Department. Source: University of Louisville.
- Reference
Shelf offers geographic, telephone, computer definitions, and scientific
resources. Source: Nova University Southeastern.
- Research
It provides searches from dictionaries, a thesaurus, Barlett's
Quotations, translations in five languages, financial resources and a
biographical dictionary. Source: i Tools.
- Virtual Reference
Desk. Source: University of North Carolina.
- Writer's
Reference Desk. Source: Inkspot.
- World Wide Web
Resources: Reference Material contains resources for the wide variety of
manuals, dictionaries; directories; encyclopedias, handbooks, etc.
Source: University of Kentucky.
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