A publicly funded website, you can search and browse for the best of the Web. With over 20,000 entries maintained by librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics. Featured collections are also offered ranging from The Grapes of Web (a companion to the 2002 California statewide Steinbeck reading program) to such topics as taxes, elections, and September 11.

Over 40,000 Internet resources, hand picked, organized and described by librarians and library students.

An extensive listing of links to Web sites that provide factual and statistical information, such as would be found in almanacs or statistical abstracts. Resources listed here focus primarily on the United States and Canada, but other areas of the world are represented as well.

This site on the fifty states (and the U.S. commonwealths and territories) has information such as: location (latitude and longitude), birds, colleges and universities, constitutions, flowers, genealogical resources, geological formations, geographical features, mottos, national forests and parks, newspapers, nicknames, nonprofit organizations, populations, state and federal representatives, songs, and the date of entry into the union. All facts are linked to over 1529 governmental or authoritative webpages.

Online version of the popular almanac, which you can browse by topic or search. Also includes the Random House Websters College Dictionary and the Columbia Encyclopedia.

Almanac of famous or noteworthy fires, earthquakes, and accidents (train wrecks, airplane crashes), organized by date.

Covers astronomical events, weather conditions and forecasts, recipes, as well as gardening tips.

Founded to counteract the tendency of the mainstream media to focus on the negative." Provides links to stories from a variety of online news resources considered to be "good news".

Search Current Articles from Newspapers from around the Globe. Our catalog currently indexes over 250 newspapers and news sources from around the world. Search engine allows for only simple keyword searches.

The Acronym Finder (AF) is a world wide web (WWW) searchable database of common acronyms about computers, technology, and telecommunications, with an emphasis on Department of Defense (DoD), Air Force, Army, and Navy acronyms." This site has copyright information, updates, features, contributors, a disclaimer, other engines, and tips for users.

This site is for questions on English grammar, spelling, and usage; to search a dictionary of words, names or quotations; for help with writing; for crosswords and puzzles; and to learn about language.