Acronyms & Abbreviations
Acronyms & Abbreviations
A directory of links to many different acronym finders from the Michigan Electronic Library.
WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server
Offers the option to search for an acronym and see its expansion or to search for a word in the expansions and view related acronyms.
Almanacs
The 50 States of the United States
Provides information about each of the 50 states, including the capitol city, state flag, constitution, song, geography, economy, public schools, congressional representatives, and more. The site also provides links to more in-depth information on many topics and on U.S. territories.
Guinness World Records
Users can browse world records by category using a pull-down menu or search by keyword.
Bookstores
abebooks.com
Access to used, secondhand, rare, and out-of-print booksellers around the world.
Alibris
Searches bookstores for used, rare and out-of-print books.
Barnes & Noble
"Offers the largest in-stock selection of in-print book titles, supplemented by more than 12 million listings from its nationwide network of out-of-print, rare, and used book dealers."
Biblio.com
Selling used, rare, and out-of-print books. Not only a business that specializes in hard to find books, but also deeply committed to independent businesses (they represent more than 2200 independent bookstores worldwide), and to communities. Just down the road in Asheville, NC.
Book Finder
Over 40 million new, used, rare and out-of-print books.
City Lights, Sylva, NC
This local bookstore will order new and used books.
Direct Textbook
This site searches new and used bookstores showing a listing of availability and price for about 2 million books at online stores and student book exchanges.
Evelyn C. Leeper's Bookstore List
A directory of bookstores worldwide.
Malaprop's Bookstore and Café
This Asheville bookstore was named the best independent bookstore in the U.S. in 1999.
Schoenhof's Foreign Books
Founded in 1856, Schoenhof's offers the largest selection of foreign books in North America with language-learning material for more than 500 languages and dialects as well as fiction, non-fiction and children's books in 30 languages.
Career Information
Occupational Outlook Handbook (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Colleges & Universities
Braintrack
An index of universities, polytechnics, colleges and other higher educational institutions world wide. The site contains Web addresses and links for each
institution, and is produced and maintained by Ionos, a company in Zurich, Switzerland.
CampusTours: Virtual College Tours
Provides online tours, campus maps and a link to the institution's official Web site.
College and University Rankings
Provides links to ranked lists for general/undergraduate institutions, graduate/research programs, business, law, and international institutions. These include both general lists like those compiled by U.S. News and World Report, and specialty lists like Yahoo's List of America's 100 Most Wired Colleges.
Peterson's Education and Career Center
Students Abroad (U.S. Dept. of State)
This one-stop information warehouse from the U.S. Department of State is a great place for American students who wish to study abroad. Travel Documents, Health, Embassies, Smart Travel, etc., are a few of the many useful tips found here.
Converters & Calculators
164 Currency Converter
A multi-lingual Foreign Exchange calculator. This site provides exchange rates for over 164 currencies.
Online Conversion.com
"Convert just about anything to anything else." Includes converters for length, temperature, velocity, volume, weight, area, density, and many others.
World Time Server
Gives times for locations worldwide. The Future Event Planner function allows users to enter a location and a future date and time, and then a second location so that they can see what time it will be in Berlin when it is nine a.m. next Thursday in Raleigh.
Dictionaries & Thesauri
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 4th edition
Contains over 90,000 entries, 70,000 audio word pronunciations (.wav format), color illustrations, language notes, and word-root appendixes.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 10th edition
OneLook Dictionary Search
The OneLook® search engine searches over 900 online dictionaries at one time.
yourDictionary.com
Provides dictionaries in over 140 languages, grammars, specialty dictionaries, thesauruses, acronyms, and more.
Oxford English Dictionary
Contains the complete text of the OED twenty-volume print edition. Each dictionary entry provides a definition, etymology, pronunciation, variant spellings, quotations, and a date chart.
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
Provides authoritative information from over 100 dictionary, encyclopedia, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Directories: Phone/Address/Zip
BigYellow
Yellow pages from Bell Atlantic Electronic Commerce Services, Inc.
GTE Superpages
Yellow pages from GTE Corporation, based on the infoUSA database. The site offers nationwide name searches and reverse lookup.
Switchboard:
"The People and Business Directory," based on the infoUSA database.
Telephone Directories on the Web - U.S. and other nations
DexOnline.com
This site allows searching across a single state without specifying a city, and also offers a reverse phone number lookup.
Encyclopedias
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Enciclopedia Universal en Español
Spanish-language version of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Provides broad coverage of the world, detailed articles on academic subjects and extensive information on Spain, Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Provides authoritative articles from a series of over 20 subject-specific encyclopedias and reference books. Users may search the full text of all books by keyword. Click the link to "Show All" to select and search a specific encyclopedia.
Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection
Provides authoritative information from over 100 dictionary, encyclopedia, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Journals/Magazines/Publishers
AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers and Vendors
AJR NewsLink - Magazines (American Journalism Review) A directory of links to magazines in the U.S. and Canada.
Directory of Open Access Journals
PubList: The Internet Directory of Publications
A "directory of information about more than 150,000 publications and more than 8000 newspapers around the world." Many records include a link to the publication's Web site.
Serials Directory
Contains bibliographic information and pricing for over 155,000 US and international periodicals.
Libraries
Asheville-Buncombe Library System
Fontana Regional Library System Homepage
and Fontana Regional Library Catalog (including Jackson Co. Public Library)
Libdex
Worldwide index of library homepages, library catalogs, Friends of Libraries pages, and library e-commerce affiliate links. Browse by country or browse by state.
MAHEC Library (Mountain Area Health Education Center)
Southwestern Community College Library
Organization and Association Directories
International Organizations (UIA)
Quotations
Bartleby's Quotation Database
Search for quotations from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (10th ed.), The Columbia World of Quotations (1996), and Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).