• Acronyms and Abbreviations - search for an acronym and see its expansion or search by keyword to find an acronym.
• American FactFinder - Main access point for 2000 U.S. Census information.
• Answers.com - "A free, add-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics." Content is taken from over 100 authoritative encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries and atlases.
• Bartleby.com - Search over twenty well-known reference works at once, or select a specific reference title to search.
• Britannica Online Reference Center: Public Library Edition - Search or browse for information in encyclopedias, magazines, videos, and web sites. Part of ELM/Electronic Library for Minnesota; subscription provided by the State of Minnesota.
• CalendarLand - links to celestial calendars, cultural and religious calendars, holidays, millennium information, and more.
• Citation Style Guides - A nicely annotated page of links to various styles for citing both electronic and print sources. Includes MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, Lexis/Nexis, and more.
• Convert It! - An easy-to-use measurement conversion calculator.
• Convert-me.com - Interactive calculators for common measurements such as metric and nautical, as well as more unusual ones like Ancient Greek, Old Russian, and Apothecaries.
• CPI Calculation Machine - Includes a list of the Consumer Price Index and Inflation Rates from 1913-, and a calculator to compare the ratio of the value of goods from year to year.
• Currency Converter - Get past and current conversion rates on almost 150 different currencies.
• eHow - "Clear instructions on how to do (just about) everything."
• Fugitive Fact File - a searchable database of hard-to-find information maintained by the staff of Hennepin County Library. Results include the answer, source, date, and web site, if available.
• How Much Is That Worth Today? - Compare the purchasing power of money in the U.S. (or colonies) from 1665 to any other year, including the present.
• How to say that name - An audible pronunciation database of names.
• Index to the Exchange - An alphabetical index to "The Exchange" column from Reference and User Services Quarterly.
• Information Please - Search or browse the contents of the Information Please Almanac, Entertainment Almanac, Sports Almanac, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and Random House College Dictionary. Also special coverage of current topics in the news.
• iTools - "Quick access to the best Internet tools." Includes general search tools, dictionaries and translators, directories, rearch tools, legal resources, quotations, and more.
• Nova Roma - Instantly convert Roman numerals to Arabic, or Arabic numerals to Roman. Includes an explanation of how Roman numerals work.
• Ojibwe People's Dictionary - A searchable, talking Ojibwe-English dictionary that features the voices of Ojibwe speakers. It is also a gateway into the Ojibwe collections at the Minnesota Historical Society.
• Old Farmer's Almanac - An online version of the popular Farmer's Almanac, featuring astronomical data, gardening information, cooking and households hints, and links to other useful resources.
• OneLook Dictionaries - Search over 600 dictionaries at once, including general, legal, and foreign dictionaries.
• Perpetual Calendar - View a calendar for any month or year since 1583.
• Points of View Reference Center - A full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Covers over 250 topics. Part of ELM/Electronic Library for Minnesota; subscription provided by the State of Minnesota.
• Population Clocks - Up-to-date projections for U.S. and world populations.
• Ready Reference - categories of reference materials arranged in alphabetical order.
• Refdesk.com - "The single best source for facts on the Net." An extensive, searchable, collection of ready reference links.
• Reference@Duluth - News and information blog from the Duluth Public Library's Reference & Information Services.
• Sun and Moon Data - sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset information for cities in the U.S
• timeanddate.com - Current time and date for cities worldwide, plus the capability to generate monthly or annual calendars that include moon phases and holidays for the years 1 to 3999 AD.
• Urban Dictionary - "Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with your definitions."
• Urban Legends Reference Pages - A searchable site that "embraces not only urban legends but also misinformation, old wives' tales, strange news stories, rumors, and celebrity gossip."
• U.S. National Debt Clock - up-to-the-minute U.S. debt figures plus links to other sites about the National Debt.
• Wikipedia - The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Contains close to one million articles. Sister projects include the Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikinews, and more.
• Worldtimeserver.com - Get the correct time for anywhere in the world, or calculate the time difference between any two locations in the world
• Year by Year: 1900-2003 - Part of the large InfoPlease.com site, this section details major events that happened in the 20th century, either by decade, or individual year.
• YourDictionary.com - This collection includes dictionaries for 270 languages, glossaries of abbreviations and acronyms, rhyming dictionaries and specialty guides for nearly 100 fields.

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