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Located at 9200 113th St North - Seminole, FL 33772 - (727) 394-6905 |
Seminole Library's Online Guide to dictionaries and ready reference souces |
| Bartelby.com Reference. A "one stop" online source for classic ready reference materials, including dictionaries, thesauri, quotations and encyclopedias. |
| My Virtual Reference Desk. A very large collection of reference sources in many subjects. Also includes multiple current news sources. |
| Research It! is a one stop site for for answering quick reference questions. |
| Information Please. Almanac type information covering U.S., World, Sports, Entertainment, etc., from Information Please Almanacs. |
| National Geographic Publications Index. An online index to (among other resources) over a century's worth of National Geographic Magazines. |
| The Virtual Reference Desk Dictionary section includes links to over 200 dictionaries, including English foreign language dictionaries, guides to grammar and specialized lexicons. |
| LibrarySport A variety of resources including calculators, alamacs, experts and online books |
| List of Lists Originally compiled by the eminent weblibrarian Gary Price this is quick way finding the lists of top almost anything from the special issues of nearly three thousand publications. |
| Snopes Urban Legends. Where to go to check out potential hoaxes and tales too strange to be true. See also, National UFO Reporting Center or the UFO Documents Index |
| Data Services. Astronomical information (sunrise, sunset, eclipses, phases of the moon, etc.) provided by the U.S. Naval Observatory. The place to go if you need to find out when the sun will rise (or set) on a given day. |
| Zip Code Look Up. From the U.S. Postal Service |
| Symbols.com. An online dictionary of 2500 Western signs arranged in 54 groups of graphic characteristics. Signs can be looked by name or by description. Time period of the symbols range from the Stone Age to today. |
| The Etymology of First Names. The origins of names in many languages. |
| Perpetual Calendar. Retrieves month and day for any given year |
| Finding Images on the Web. A directory of web sites and search engines designed to find Web based pictures. |
| Maloney's Online Antiques and Collectibles Resource Directory. An invaluable resource for locating information about antiques or collectibles. In each category Maloney may offer links to appraisers, experts, dealers, societies, suppliers, museums, internet resources or periodicals. |
| Measure 4 Measure. A collection of nearly 200 interactive web sites that do estimates, calculations and perform conversions in science and math, health, finance, and other areas. |
| Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations. The site is a free multi-platform statistical software package. |
| Weights and Measures Resources. List from My Virtual Reference Desk Features currency converters, time measurement, periodic tables of the elements, metric to English conversions, distance calculators and scientific measurements and standards |
| Convert-me.Com. Use this site to convert measurements from one system to another. Covers English, metric and an ancient and unusual systems (traditional Russian, ancient Greek and Japanese for example) |
| Online Conversion. A fast and very easy to use means of converting measurements from one system to another. Five thousand units with 30,000 conversions covering length, volume, temperature, speed, area, cooking density, pressure, etc. |
| A Web of Online Dictionaries. Links to over 800 dictionaries in more than 160 different languages. |
| My Facts Page Dictionaries and Language Resources. Links to over 200 dictionary and language related web sites covering all major subjects.. |
| OneLook Dictionaries. Search for a word or acronym in over 483 dictionaries at once. |
| Jennifer's Language Page. Tells how to say many common phrases ("hello," "good-bye," "I don't understand") in hundreds of languages. |
| The Early Modern English Dictionaries Database. "Edited by Ian Lancashire of the Department of English at the University of Toronto this online database offers access to 127,000 word entries from eleven dictionaries from 1530 to 1657. Several search options are available and users may select individual dictionaries or all of them. Additional resources at the site include a helpful overview of EMEDD, a short piece on Renaissance word meaning, a select bibliography, and dictionary profiles" [Summary provided by the Internet Scout Report] |
| The Elements of Style by William Strunk. The classic handbook for creating clear English prose. |
| English as a Second Language Home Page. Online dictionaries, guides to grammar, courses and resources . |
| English Grammar Links for ESL students. |