A collection of URLs from the Adult Services
Librarians of the
Suburban Library Cooperative.
SUBJECT AREAS
Animals
Useful
resource for pet care
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Arts, Music, Dance, & Theater
This site is useful for researching contemporary musical artists,
genres, styles and recordings.
AskART is an online database containing over 35,000 American
artists from the early 16th-Century through the present. Includes
biographical info, museum references, reference citations, gallery
information, and auction prices. Very useful for finding the obscure.
Excellent resource for movies, actors, and directors.
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Books
& Reading
Helpful for identifying publications and gathering bibliographical
and availability info. The descriptions of the books, etc., are also
helpful for reference and collection development.
Helpful for identifying publications and gathering bibliographical
and availability info. The descriptions of the books, etc., are also
helpful for reference and collection development.
Ideal site for determining the order of a given series
Book Sense highlights a lot of books (from independent
bookstores) A really good source for book club suggestions etc.
Fiction-L is a fantastic listserv concerning all things fiction.
Search the archives for a topic or review the booklists that are posted
on the site.
This is a great reader's advisory tool produced by Hennepin (MN)
County Library. Users specify a favorite author, theme or genre, and
are provided with a list of similar titles for further reading.
Useful for readers advisory, cataloging and collection
development. Helpful in verifying
bibliographic info.
Lets you search for movies based on books. Searching by Movie
Title, Book Title, Book Author and Movie Release Year.
Find a poet or a poem.
Over 1,400 guides available. You can find a guide, read advice on
running a book group, participate in a roundtable about how your
reading group is going and subscribe to their newsletter.
- Research and Documentation Online : http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
Resources for researching, writing, and citing materials. Four
of the major styles (APA, MLA, Chicago, CBE) are represented.
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Business
This is a guide to historic stock prices
Business information on countries around the world
A real estate resource for the state of Michigan.
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Consumer Issues
For each product category, ConsumerSearch offers the following:
All The Reviews Reviewed: Our ranking and descriptions of all the top
reviews, complete with links;
Full Story: Our complete analysis of who the experts are and what they
say;
Fast Answers: Our listing of the top-rated products, according to the
experts.
This is a wedding resource guide for brides and grooms.
This database from the National Library of Medicine allows the
user to look up common household products to find a list of
ingredients, potential health effects, and safe handling procedures.
A collaborative effort of six government agencies, Recalls.gov is
a one-stop clearinghouse for information on government recalls of
consumer products, vehicles, boats, food, medicine, cosmetics and
environmental products.
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Government,
Politics, & Law
This government resource is appropriate for
juvenile patrons.
The Citizens Research Council of Michigan is a
private, not-for-profit public affairs research organization
established in 1916 to provide nonpartisan analysis of state and local
government organization and finance in Michigan.
This is a good source for information on U.S.
Supreme Court
decisions, transcripts, and court rules.
The government has collected a large variety of links related to
senior issues in consumer issues, taxes, laws, health, leisure, etc. at
this website
Your
best source for entering and living in the USA.
Very nice website: helpful information on the various departments
and the services they offer.
Defines terms & includes references to specific Michigan laws
This site contains the full text of Michigan
Compiled Laws, as well as links to several other federal and state web
sites.
Keyword-searchable site for downloading and
printing SCAO court forms in .pdf format. Often easier for patrons to
use than the print version.
The Political Graveyard, a
database of historic cemeteries, is the Internet’s most comprehensive
source of U.S.
political biography.
This website allows you to search for
information (name,
address, phone number, short biography,) on state and federal elected
officials
and current state elections by 9-digit zip code and it has a link to
the U.S.
Postal Service for looking up the extended zip code.
This site for Michigan voters built through citizen-government
interaction provides polling locations, district maps, and links to
information about candidates and key issues.
SEMCOG is the premier resource for data about Southeast Michigan,
gathering and analyzing information for public and private sector
decision making on the region’s economy and quality of life.
This resource from the Internet Public Library provides basic
facts on any state in America, and links to other relevant state sites.
A good access point to census data
Though a library might have the print version,
the website is quick
and easy.
This
site contains information for job seeking
veterans, veterans currently employed by the Federal Government, and
Federal
human resources specialists.
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Health &
Medicine
This resource by the American Medical Association enables
searching for a physician by name or specialty to locate contact
information, credentials, and training.
Go Ask Alice! provides readers with credible, accessible
information so that they can make better decisions concerning their
health and well-being.
This service of the National Library of Medicine from the National
Institutes of Health covers health topics, drug information,
dictionaries, directories and current health news.
MedWeb is a catalog of biomedical and health related web sites
maintained by the staff of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences
Center Library at Emory University.
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History &
Genealogy
Includes the top 100 American speeches, among other things
Find what happened in history on a specific date, plus it has a
great history time line.
This database from the Library of Michigan allows keyword and
geographical searching to locate cemeteries in Michigan. Recently,
links to online burial transcriptions from around the state have been
added.
This index, created and maintained by the Macomb County Clerk,
provides death dates for persons who died (or whose remains were
returned to Macomb County for burial) from approximately 1945 to
present. A great resource for genealogy and general local history
research.
Michigan history at your fingertips, full-text and free! This
collection is a collaborative effort of Michigan's Council of Library
Directors. The collection is projected to provide access to 192
histories dating from 1866 to 1926. There are 164 titles currently
online, including both Macomb County histories (1882 and 1905). The
full text is keyword searchable, with advanced searching operators
available.
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International
Useful stuff like postal codes, decisions of the Supreme Court of
Canada, info from StatsCan and the words to Ode to Newfoundland.
MENIC is an online guide to Middle East-related websites and
databased that can be accessed via the World Wide Web. It is created by
a staff of editors who visit and evaluate web sites, and then organize
them into subject-based categories and sub-categories.
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News
This is an online resource for news, arts & leisure, and
sports.
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Reference
Useful for exhaustive information on any given topic.
Useful site for writers and students, includes access to Compact
Oxford English Dictionary.
For reverse lookups as well as phone numbers and yellow pages.
Valuable reference site for librarians.
Excellent site for reference information, especially for Michigan
related info.
Refdesk has a little bit of everything but at the same time isn't
too big to maneuver around.
Look up words, and translate between English and many other
languages.
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Travel & Tourism
Activities around SE Michigan.
Experts in adventure and
experiential travel (in association with National Geographic). Forbes’
#1 adventure/travel site four years in a row.
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Science
& Technology
This is a useful sight for homework help because
it gives a
picture of the periodic table of elements, a diagram of the element and
information about the element including the date of discovery,
discoverer and
the name origin.
Information on the Great Lakes including facts and current data.
A glimpse into the mysteries of the universe …
what is
known about it, how it’s evolving, and the
kinds of objects it contains.
Horticulture and gardening links, as well as parenting resources.
Educational resources, photographs and facts on astronomy, space
projects.
A useful astronomy site.
Although an almanac will provide similar
information, this
is a good site for time of sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset and
twilight,
positions of the sun and moon, and information on eclipses.
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