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Almanacs and Lists

  • Information Please
            http://www.infoplease.com/almanacs.html
    Almanacs of all sorts of information.  Infoplease.com also leads to general reference sources such as  a dictionary and encyclopedia
     
  • Fast Facts
    •         http://www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm
    Courtesy of librarian Gary Price, this web site links to many statistical reports, almanacs and other fact books from various government agencies
     
  • Afro American Almanac
    •         http://www.toptags.com/aama/
     
  • Guiness World Records
    •         http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/home.asp
  • Price's List of Lists
    •         http://www.specialissues.com/lol/
    Gary Price, librarian, has managed to create this excellent metasite to find rankings and lists of all sorts, especially in the area of business but also in other fields.  Scroll down until you reach a desired category, click on the category and then click on the particular list you are seeking
     
  • Periodic Table of the Elements
            http://www.chemicalelements.com/
     
  • Kelley Blue Book
    •         http://www.kbb.com/
     
  • Symbols.com - An encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms
         http://www.symbols.com/
    Indexes more than 2,500 Western symbols. Articles discuss their histories, meanings and uses.  Search either in their graphic index or their word index
    • Handbooks and Manuals
  • United States Government Manual
    •         http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/browse-gm-03.html
     
  • Computer Manuals
    •         http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/onlineref/computerref.html
     
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook
            http://www.bls.gov/oco/
     
  • How Stuff Works
    •         http://www.howstuffworks.com/
    For mechanical, electrical and other functionality-type questions such as automobile engines, microwave ovens, toilets, and more
     
  • Michigan Electronic Library: Home Maintenance and Repair        http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=361&pathid=1155
    • Miscellaneous Ready Reference
  • Library of Congress Classification System
    •         http://geography.miningco.com/science/geography/library/congress/bllc.htm
     
  • Ready Reference File
    •         http://www.santacruzpl.org/cgi-bin/readyref.pl
    Santa Cruz Public Libraries' collection of tough reference questions they had and how they answered them
     
  • Fugitive Fact File
    •         http://www.hennepin.lib.mn.us/pub/search/fff_public.html
     
  • Info File Database
            http://sjcpl.lib.in.us/databases/infofile/
    From St. Joseph County Public Library, a database of tough reference questions they have had throughout many years, searchable in a database
     
  • Stumpers Archive
    •         http://listserv.dom.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S1=stumpers-l
    Search the archive to the STUMPERS listserv, a forum where librarians ask other librarians for assistance to tough reference questions.  If you are still stumped, ask one of us librarians and if we do not know we can post your question for you  (Librarians only, click here to post a question and be sure to ask anyone who answers to reply to you, not just to the list)
     
  • Lib-Web Cats--Directory of Libraries and Online Catalogs on the World Wide Web
    •      http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/Breeding/libwebcats.html
     
  • LibWeb: Library Servers on the WWW
           http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
     
  • Federal School Codes Search
    •         http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/fotw0405/fslookup.htm
       
  • Public Records Database
    •         http://www.pac-info.com/
     
  • Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
            http://www.CyndisList.com/
    • Online Reference Libraries

    Reference Collections  |  Online Reference Assistance  |  Online Reference Libraries (General)

    Reference Collections
     
  • Bartleby.com's Reference Collection
    •         http://www.bartleby.com/reference/

    Online Reference Assistance  

  • Chabot College Library Email Reference
               chabotref@clpccd.cc.ca.us
    Right now, Chabot College Library's online response is via Email, of which is usually checked around once a day.  If you need help sooner than a 24 hour time period (72 hour time period during the summer or break), please call the Library at 510-723-6764 or use one of the other online reference options, listed below.  When Emailing us, be sure to state in detail your question and any problems you had with any databases and/or login access.
     
  • Alameda County Library's Virtual Reference Service (through Ask Now)
            http://www.asknow.org/portal.cfm?lib=ALAMEDA
    Provided by Alameda County Library, get live reference via the Web with a librarian at real time!  Librarians who respond are either from California or from across the United States.  Sometimes, librarians will NOT have access to the same databases as ours (but may have access to similar ones)
     
  • Internet Public Library's Ask A Question
    •         http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/
    Like Email reference at Chabot, prepare to wait around 24 hours for a response.
     

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    This web site was last updated on May 12, 2004.
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    Norman Buchwald, Information Literacy and Technology Librarian.
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