| San Bernardino County Library Quick Reference Sources
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| A pathfinder of Internet resources providing quick answers to narrowly-focused
questions.
Last revised January 12, 2004. |
| Acronym and Abbreviation List (http://www.ucc.ie/cgi-bin/acronym/) |
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| Acronym Finder (http://www.acronymfinder.com/) |
| Over 302,000 acronyms/abbreviations and their meanings |
| All Nations Expatriates & Travelers Telephone Search Engine: Dialing Codes & Directories Worldwide (http://www.escapeartist.com/global/telephone.htm) |
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| American Factfinder (http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en) |
| Easy access to some of the Census Bureau's largest data sets. Includes limited data from the 2000 Census |
| American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (http://www.bartleby.com/61/) |
| 4th ed., with 90,000 entries, 70,000 audio pronunciations (.wav format). |
| AmeriStat (http://www.ameristat.org/) |
| U.S. population issues, trends, and statistics, in graphics and text. |
| Anthems and Flags of the Nations of the World: (http://www.copcity.com/anthems/anthems.html) |
| Photographs of national flags and MIDI recordings of national anthems. |
| AnyWho (http://anywho.com/) |
| White pages search engine, including e-mail addresses and neighbors. |
| Associations on the Net (http://www.ipl.org/div/aon/) |
| From the Internet Public Library |
| Astronomical Applications Dept., U.S. Naval Observatory (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/) |
| Sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, and twilight, moon illumination, celestial navigation, and more. |
| Biographical Dictionary (http://www.s9.com/biography/) |
| Brief information on about 28,000 people. |
| CensusScope: Your Portal to Census 2000 Data (http://www.censusscope.org/) |
| Presented by the Social Science Data Analysis Network at U. Mich. Charts, maps, and rankings. |
| Columbia Encyclopedia (http://www.bartleby.com/65/) |
| 6th ed. 2001. |
| Consumer Price Index Inflation Conversion Factors (http://oregonstate.edu/dept/pol_sci/fac/sahr/sahr.htm) |
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| Creative Quotations (http://creativequotations.com/) |
| 50,000 quotes, indexed in various ways. |
| Demography and Population Studies (http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/) |
| From the Virtual Public Library. |
| A Dictionary of Units of Measurements (http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/) |
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| Encyclopaedia Brittanica (http://www.britannica.com/) |
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| Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com/) |
| 14,000 brief entries from the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 3rd ed. |
| ERSYS (Earth Resource System) (http://www.ersys.com/) |
| Market research company's free demographic and geographic data. |
| FedStats (http://www.fedstats.gov/index.html) |
| "The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies" |
| Flags of the World (http://flagspot.net/flags/) |
| 38,000 images of flags and 21,000 pages of information about flags. |
| Free ZIP Code Lookup (http://zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm) |
| Also includes time zone, county name, latitude/longitude, area code, Congressional district. |
| Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/index.html) |
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| Guinness World Records (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/) |
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| How Far Is It? (http://www.indo.com/distance/) |
| Direct distance between geographic points worldwide. |
| Infobel: International Telephone Directories (http://www.infobel.com/world/default.asp) |
| Phone and fax numbers in more than 184 countries. |
| Information Please (http://www.infoplease.com/) |
| Cyber-ready reference library of information. |
| InfoSpace: the Web Phone Directory (http://www.infospace.com/) |
| More than 25 directories, with useful government information and reverse white pages to search from listed addresses or phone numbers to find names. |
| Interlotto.com: Secure and Confidential Entry to Official Lotteries Worldwide (http://www.interlotto.com/) |
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| Merriam-Webster Online (http://www.m-w.com/) |
| Definitions, thesaurus, slang, etc. |
| Metric Conversion Tables (http://convert.french-property.co.uk/index.htm) |
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| Microsoft Terraserver (http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/) |
| Millions of searchable aerial photographs and satellite images. |
| MSN Maps & Directions (http://mappoint.msn.com/(51zxysyfcc2x0555vvppm045)/home.aspx) |
| Instant maps from US street addresses. |
| National Atlas of the United States (http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/) |
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| The Nobel Foundation and Prizes (http://www.nobel.se/) |
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| The Old Farmer's Almanac (http://www.almanac.com/index.php) |
| Homespun wisdom and advice. Helpful household information. |
| OneLook Dictionary Search (http://www.onelook.com/) |
| Search over 3 million words in over 700 dictionaries. |
| Population Profile of the United States: 2000 (http://www.census.gov/population/www/pop-profile/profile2000.html) |
| Surveys conducted in the year 2000 and earlier, and some limited Census 2000 data. |
| Quotations Page (http://www.quotationspage.com/) |
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| Reference: Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/reference/) |
| Combined database of numerous respected reference works. |
| Refdesk.com (http://www.refdesk.com/) |
| Links to newspapers, magazines, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and search engines. |
| Reverse Phone Directory (http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/) |
| Enter a listed number and find the listing. |
| Rogets II: The New Thesaurus (http://www.bartleby.com/62/) |
| 3rd ed, 1995. |
| Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (http://www.bartelby.com/63/) |
| Over 10,000 quotations from 4000 sources, dating from 1950 to 1988 |
| State and County QuickFacts (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html) |
| Frequently requested Census Bureau information. |
| State and Metropolitan Area Data Book (http://www.census.gov/statab/www/smadb.html) |
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| Statistical Abstract of the United States (http://www.census.gov/statab/www/) |
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| SuperPages (http://www.bigyellow.com/) |
| National yellow pages from Verizon. |
| Switchboard Nationwide Residential and Business Directory (http://www.switchboard.com) |
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| Telephone Directories on the Web (http://www.teldir.com/) |
| Annotated meta-index to residential, business and e-mail directories in 170 countries. |
| Time Service Dept., U.S. Naval Observatory (http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/time.html) |
| The official source of time used in the United States. |
| Time Zone Page (http://www.globalmetric.com/time/) |
| Time and date in 1500 cities. |
| U.S. Census Bureau: The Official Statistics (http://www.census.gov) |
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| U.S. Census Bureau Maps and Cartographic Resources (http://tiger.census.gov) |
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| U.S. County Population Estimates-U.S. Census Bureau (http://eire.census.gov/popest/data/counties.php) |
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| U.S. Gazetteer (http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer/) |
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| U.S. Geological Survey Mapping Information: GNIS Data Base Query Form (http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnisform.html) |
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| U.S. State Fact Sheets (http://www.ers.usda.gov/statefacts/) |
| Information of population, per-capita income, earnings per job, poverty rate, etc. |
| Universal Currency Converter (http://www.xe.com/ucc/) |
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| WWW Tide/Current Predictor (http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/sitesel.html) |
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| World Biographical Index (http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/acwww25u/wbi_en/) |
| 3.4 million short biographical entries. |
| World Time Server (http://www.worldtimeserver.com/) |
| Includes local times throughout world plus graphic showing location. |
| yourDictionary.com (http://www.yourdictionary.com/) |
| Over 150 languages, many bilingual. |
| ZIP Code Lookup (http://www.getzips.com/zip.htm) |
| List all ZIP codes in a city, county or area code. Search by ZIP code for city, county and area code. |