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Sites the Librarians Like
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UDPL's Internet Use Policy and Guidelines
Tax Forms
Local Resources and History
Local Government Resources
Local History
Weather History:
Local History can also be found by contacting the Historical Society of Fort Washington
The Society is housed in the Historic Clifton House
473 Bethlehem Pike, Fort Washington PA 19034
215-646-6065
Open Wednesdays 2p-4p or by appointment
Magazine Articles
- Pennsylvania POWER Libraries : Educational databases of journal articles. You'll need a library card barcode to search these databases from home.
Business/Financial
- Free Credit Reports: site put together by the three consumer credit reporting companies. It will give you one free report from each per year.
- Big Charts: An investment charting and research site.
- CI: Corporate Information: Offers company profiles and more extensive research reports on selected companies. Also includes international business information.
- The Gallup Organization: Information for researchers on opinion polls and trends.
- Morningstar.com: Look up fund and stock information.
- CNN Money: Look up stock information.
Consumer Reviews
English as a Second Language
General Directories
Government Resources
Health Information
History
Law Sites
Religion
Statistics
For Teachers and Educators
Travel Planning
Free Online Audio books Free Digitized Books
Many thanks to Horsham Public Library for letting us borrow this list!
Free Electronic/Digitized Books to Read on your Computer
Many thanks to Horsham Public Library for letting us borrow this list!
- NetLibrary: a part of the state-funded POWER Library. Over 55,000 eBooks
- Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts: public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy
- The Bartleby Library: unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge.
- Bibliomania: Over 2,000 classic texts, plus book notes, summaries, author biographies and other information.
- DearReader.Com: This e-mail service sends two or three chapters of a book, one section a day.
- Electronic Text Center of the University of Virginia: an internet-accessible collection of SGML and XML texts
- eServer.org: an alternative niche for quality work. It offers 44 collections on diverse topics, with over 31,000 works available.
- The Great Books: As the title implies….classics.
- Internet Classics Archive: A library of over 400 classic works with access made possible by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab.
- National Academies Press: reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council
- Online Books Page: facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet
- Project Gutenberg: the Internet's oldest producer of over 20,000 free electronic books
- Google Books: You can search within the text of the “full view” books that Google has digitized
- Internet Public Library maintains a list of many specialized resources in addition to many mentioned here.
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