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1. Encyclopedia of Religion and Society by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, Hartford Seminary
   Browse by topic, which are listed alphabetically on the home page. Not searchable.
   02-21-2008 : encyclopedias, religions
2. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online by the Mennonite Historical Society of Canada, Mennonite Church USA Historical Committee, Mennonite Brethren Historical Commission, Mennonite Central Committee and Mennonite World Conference
   “Reliable information on Anabaptist-related (Amish, Mennonite, Hutterite, Brethren in Christ) topics, including history, theology, biography, institutions and local congregations. Secular topics from an Anabaptist perspective and full-text source document
   02-21-2008 : anabaptists, church history, encyclopedias, mennonites, missions
3. Librarians’ Internet Index: Judaism
   A well-organized starting point for reliable, librarian-selected Internet resources. Covers many categories of Judaism
   02-14-2008 : anti-semitism, encyclopedias, food, genealogy, hanukkah, hasidism, hebrew language, history, holidays, holocaust, jewish studies, jews, judaism, judaism study and teaching, kabbalah, karaite, ladino language, libraries, literature, liturgy, magazines, migrations, museums, music, newspapers, orthodox judaism, passover, reform judaism, religions, sephardic, talmud, women, yiddish language and culture
4. Internet Guide to Religion
   Covers a wealth and variety of resources in religious studies. Has syllabi available for courses.
   01-16-2007 : academic research resources, archaeology, assessing learning, bibliographies, calendars, christianity, chronologies, dictionaries by subject, encyclopedias, faculty resources, faculty resources: religions, glossaries, historical maps, history, language dictionaries, maps: historical, philosophy, religions, statistics, subject dictionaries, syllabi, teaching: assessing learning, teaching: incpating electronic resources, theology, timelines, translation, writing papers
5. The 50 States [of the United States]: States and Capitals
   Concise listing on a wide variety of information on each state, including links to over 1529 governmental or authoritative sites. Has a yellow pages for the states.
   01-16-2007 : 50, education-community colleges, encyclopedias, fifty, governmental agencies, governors-, phone directories, state capitals cities, state history, state parks, state tourism information, state tourist information, united states, yellow pages
6. The Virtual Seminary
   List of general encycopedias including Bitannica, Columbia, Encarta etc.. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
   01-16-2007 : bible study helps, encyclopedias
7. iTools: Quick Access to the Best Internet Tools
   Includes search engines; subject directories; looking up words or translating them; currency converters; encyclopedias, biographies, quotations, legal; maps and driving directions; and Internet tools such as ping, nslookup, DNS check, traceroute, link popularity, and HTML validators.
   01-12-2007 : biographies, currency converters, dns check, driving directions, electronic reference sources, encyclopedias, html validators, internet tools, legal, link popularity, looking up words translationing them, maps, nslookup, ping, quotations, search engines: general, subject directories, traceroute
8. KnowPlay?
   Quick lookup for definitions, thesauruses, rhyming, encyclopedias, quotations, world atlas, CIA World Factbook, fine artist search, and acronyms.
   01-12-2007 : acronyms, artists, definitions, dictionaries, encyclopedias, fine arts, maps, quotations, rhymes, thesaurus, world atlas
9. WWW Virtual Library: General Reference
   High quality directory maintained by an expert in the field.
   01-12-2007 : almanacs and yearbooks, atlases, biographical sources, countries, current and historical, dictionaries, dictionaries of biographies, directories and indexes, encyclopedias, gazeteers, geographical sources, glossaries, international organizations, landforms, lexicons, national sources, organizations, people, publications, quotations, regions, statistics, synonyms, thesaurus, who's who
10. Chamber's Book of Days
    Popular Antiquities given for any specific day of the year.
    01-10-2007 : calendar, encyclopedias, history, popular antiquities, this day in history, today
11. Best of the Web
    An extensive list selected by librarians.
    11-09-2006 : abbreviations, acronyms, address directories, adult literacy, aids, almanacs, anagrams, anthropology, apparel, archaeology, area studies, art. architecture, arts administration, astronomy, audio books, authors, avian influenza, awards, bankruptcies, best of the web, biographies, biology, bird flu, bisexual studies, book arts, book trade, books, books and 'zines, booksellers, botany, bronx on the web, building, buildings, buses, business, calculators, calendars, careers, celebrations, chemistry, children, children's resources, citation guides, climatology, communication, community, community information, company information, computers, construction, consumer, converters, copyright, cosmetics, cost of living, country information, culinary history, current events, dance, dictionaries, disability information, disability resources, disaster preparedness, domestic violence, earth science, economic statistics, education, eldercare, elections, email, emergency preparedness, employment, encyclopedias, engineering, environmental science, ethnic groups, evaluating information, exercise, fashion, federal government, film, finance, financial, fine arts, folklore, food, food science, foreign governments, fragrances, fun and interesting sites, games, gay, genealogy, geography, geology, government, government agencies, government: documents, government: state and local, grammar, hardware, health, health care providers and facilities, health info in languages, healthy eating, historical documents, history, history of medicine, hiv, holidays, homelessness, homework help, housing, humanities, immigrants, immigration, industry information, insurance, internet, job training, journal articles, law, law dictionaries, law libraries, law societies, lawyer and law firm directories, lawyer referral, legal abbreviations, legal aid services, legal forms, legal information, legal issues, legal search tools, lesbian, libraries, linguistics, literature, macintosh computers, magazine articles, manhattan on the web, manuscripts, maps, market research, mathematics, measurements, media, medical dictionaries, medical research and trials, medicine, medicine: alternative, medicines: prescription and nonprescription, men, mental health and behavior, movies, music, mysticism, mythology, names, native north american resources, new york, new york city, news, occult, operating systems, parapsychology, parent resources, patents, people, performing arts, pet health, philosophy, photography, physical fitness, physics, political science, prescription and nonprescription medicines, primary documents public records, prizes, programming languages, psychology, publishers, quotations, radio, reading, recorded sound, religions, resources for older adults, resources for young adults, science, search the internet, self-help, senior citizens, seniors' organizations, small business, social sciences, social services, sociology, software, space science, sports, staten island on the web, statistical sources, statistics, subways, teaching resources, technology, teen life, teenagers, telephone directories, television, textiles, theatre, theology, time, trademarks, training, trains, transgender studies, translation, transportation, travel, united nations, viruses, volunteering, voter information, weather, web design, websites for writers, women's studies, world wide web, writers' resources, zoology
12. Yahoo! Search Basics
    A collection of shortcuts for conducting searches on a selection of topics, including airline information, area codes, dictionaries, encyclopedias, exchange rates, gas prices, maps, package tracking, sports scores, and much more. (Copyright 2006 by Librarians' Internet Index)
    11-09-2006 : airlines, airport information, area codes, book arts, calculators, definitions, dictionaries, encyclopedia, encyclopedias, exchange rates, finance, flight tracker, gas prices, hotel finder, international standard book numbers, internet guides, internet searching shortcuts, isbn, local search, maps, measures, movies: show times, news, oil, package tracking, patents, printing, publishing, search tools, sports scores, stock exchanges, synonym finder, temperatures, time zones, traffic, upc codes, vehicle identification number, vin number, weather, weights, zip codes
13. Internet Public Library Reference
    Browse various reference subjects.
    11-08-2006 : almanacs, biographies, calculators and conversion tools, calendars, census data, current events, demographics, dictionaries, encyclopedias, genealogy, geography, grammars, news, organizations, periodical directories, quotations, societies, style and writing guides, telephone and address, time, trivia, weather
14. Yahoo! Celtic Mythology
    Covers Celticism, gods and goddesses, and Irish and Welsh mythology. Also an encyclopedia of the Celts, animal symbolism in Celtic mythology, the druids, and more.
    11-08-2006 : animal symbolism, celtic mythology, celticism, celts, druids, druids' beliefs and ceremonies, encyclopedias, gods and goddesses, grail werk, irish and welsh mythology, megaliths, people of the mounds, sidhe, tuatha de danaan
15. Dance Heritage Coalition
    A tutorial for in-depth dance research, focusing on primary sources available in archives and research libraries.
    11-08-2006 : dance history, dance:, dance: abstracts and indexes, dance: dictionaries, dance: primary documents dictionaries: dance, dance: tutorial, encyclopedias, encyclopedias: dance, performing arts, tutorials
16. Investopedia
    Has tutorials, articles, Ask Us, exams, an investing game, and newsletters.
    11-07-2006 : economics, encyclopedias, investing game, investing money, investments
17. How Stuff Works
    Clear explanations, diagrams, and links for parts and functions of common technology, machines, and other things we see everyday.
    11-07-2006 : automobiles, autos, cars, computers, electronics, encyclopedias, entertainment, how things work, machines: explanations, money, people, science, technology: explanations, travel
18. Infoplease.com
    Combines the contents of an encyclopedia, dictionaries, and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records on the world, U.S., sports, entertainment, people, business, living, society, agriculture, science, and technology.
    11-06-2006 : almanacs, dictionaries, dictionary, encyclopedias, statistics
19. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America
    50,000 entries of accurate data on geographical places and features.
    11-03-2006 : canada, caribbean, databases, encyclopedias, geography, mexico, north america, u.s.a.
20. Internet Public Library
    Browse a wide range of subjects.
    10-15-2006 : accounting, addictions., address directories, advertising, africa, agriculture, alcohol, almanacs, alternative medicine, anatomy, anthropology, aquaculture, archaeology, archives, arts, arts: news, asia, associations on the net, astrology, astronomy, australia, banking, biographies, books, business, business administration, business directories, business management, calculators, calendars, caribbean, census data, central america, chemical sciences, chemistry, classics, clocks, commerce, communications, computer, consumer information, consumer issues, consumer services, controversial, conversion tools, country studies, crafts, culture, current events, demographics, dentistry, dictionaries, diet, disability resources, diseases, disorders and syndromes, donors: transplants, drugs, e-commerce, earth sciences, ecology, economics, economics news, education, electronics, employment, encyclopedias, energy, engineering, entertainment, entrepreneurship, environmental sciences, ethnicity, europe, exercise, fashion, finance, fine arts, first aid, folklore, food, games, garden, genealogy, geography, geriatrics, government, grammars, health, health care management and policy, history, history: arts, history: business, history: economics, history: entertainment, history: government, history: humanities, history: law, history: leisure, history: medicine, history: political science, history: science, history: technology, hobbies, home, horology, humanities, humanities: news, industry, injuries, insurance, international business, internet, labor, language, latin america, law, law enforcement, leisure, leisure news, libraries, life sciences, linguistics, literature, magazines, marketing, mathematics, medical sciences, medical sciences news, medical specializations, medical technology, medications, medicine, men's health, mental health, middle east, movies, museum studies, museums, music, news, nonprofit organizations, north america, nursing, nutrition, occupational health and safety, oral health, organizations, pain treatment and management, paleontology, paranormal phenomena, pediatrics, periodical directories, pets, pharmaceuticals, philosophy, physical fitness, physics, physiology, political science, preventive medicine, professional resources, public health, quotations, race, radio, real estate, records management, recreation: outdoor, regional studies, religions, science and technology libraries, science and technology news, sexuality, social customs, societies, south america, south pacific, sports, statistics, style and writing guides, surgery, tax, telephone directories, television, theater, theology, time, time measurement, tobacco, tourism, trade, traditions, tranplants: human organs, transportation, travel, trivia, veterinary medicine, weather, women's health, workplace

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