Ready Reference
Almanac & Factbook
- The 50 States of the United States
- Census 2000: State & County QuickFacts
- Information Please Almanac
- The World Factbook
Associations & Organizations
- American Library Association
- Association for Information Management
- Associations on the Net (AON)
- Galenet: International, U.S. National, and Regional, State and Local Associations
- Idealist
- International Federation for Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
- Special Library Association
- Visual Resources Association
Biographies
- Biographical Dictionary
- Biographies of Pilots
- Biography
- Find-A-Grave
- The List of Popes
- The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
- Presidents of the United States
- Women in Sports
- Current U.S. Population
Dictionaries
- allwords.com
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- Clear Ink's SpellWeb
- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
- Dictionary of Slang
- Directory of Translation Dictionaries
- Encyberpedia Dictionary and Glossary
- English Dictionary
- LOGOS Dictionary
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
- OneLook Dictionaries
- Specialty Dictionaries
- VoyCabulary
- A Web of On-line Dictionaries
- yourDictionary.com
Encyclopedia
- Britannica.com
- Britannica Online
- Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th edition
- Encyberpedia
- Encyclopedia.Com
- Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online
- The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Flags
- Flags of All Countries
- Flags of the Confederacy
- Flag of the United States
- Historical Flags of the United States
- U.S. Flag
Government Resources
- The Almanac of Politics and Government
- American Law Sources On-line (ALSO)
- Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
- Federal Gateway
- USA.gov
- Government Information Resources
- Government Information Xchange
- Law and Politics Internet Guide
- The Political Graveyard
- U.S. Blue Pages
- U.S. Government Printing Office
- Washingtonpost: The Federal Internet Guide
Maps
- 50States
- Maps and Driving Directions
- Maps and Driving Directions
- MapBlast!
- Map Collection
- Maps.com
- MapQuest
- Maps of the United States: The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
- Quick Maps of the World
- U.S. Gazetteer
- Zoom Into Maps
Periodicals
- American Heritage
- American Libraries Online
- Asiaweek Online
- Atlantic Monthly
- The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Business Week
- Byte
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Discover Magazine
- The Economist
- Forbes Online
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Policy
- Fortune
- Harvard Political Review
- HotWired
- Money
- Mother Jones
- Nation
- National Geographic
- National Review
- New Republic
- New York Times Book Review
- PC Magazine
- People
- Political Science Quarterly
- Reason
- Scientific American
- Sports Illustrated
- Technology Review
- Time Magazine
- U.S. News & World Report
- United States International Information program's Electronic Journals
- Wilson Quarterly
- Wired Magazine
- The World and I
Phone Directories
- The AmeriCom Long Distance Area Decoder
- AnyWho Directories
- Area Code Download
- Big Book
- Internet Address Finder
- Switchboard
- The Ultimate White Pages
- U.S. Business Phone Listings
- White Pages
- WorldPages
Quotations
Thesauri
- Acronyms Finder
- Synonyms Dictionary
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Roget's Thesaurus (NIAID)
- The World Wide Web Acronym and Abbreviation Server
- WWWebster Thesaurus
- Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus (WEDT)
- U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Law & Legislation
- CapitolHearings.org
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Criminal Justice Links
- Federal Register
- FedLaw
- FindLaw for Legal Professionals
- FindLaw Guide to Legal Resources
- GPOAccess
- GigaLaw.com
- Guide to Law Online
- House of Representatives
- Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions
- Lawyer Express
- 'Lectric Law Library
- Legal Information Institute
- LEGI-SLATE's Legislative Highlights
- Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
- Senate Web
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Thomas - Legislation on the Internet
- U.S. Code / Cornell Law School
- U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
- U.S. House of Representatives Law Library
- U.S. Law Library of Congress
U.S. Postal Services
- Area Code and Zip Code Look-ups
- US Postal Service
- US Postcode Number
- ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information
Weather Forecasts
Recommended Site
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments has a list of Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments (useful in finding the important names)
- Electronic Embassy Website provides information on each of the embassies in Washington D.C., with links to Web-based resources where available.
- InternationalAffairs has links to a wide variety of resources ranging from news wires and newspapers to economic think-tanks to strategic studies institutes to the official web pages of governments and international institutions like the World Bank, OECD, and the United Nations.