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Libraries
Librarians and trained staff are available online to help you locate and use library resources, including your home campus catalog, books, periodicals, videos, online indexes and special collections. Our goal is to help you learn how to find information effectively and efficiently.
Visit any virtual campus library (use pull-down menu below) or the library resources listed below for more information related to Minnesota and other library resources, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, general reference, government, law and medical resources, museums, search engines and style resources.
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Library Resources
Minnesota Library Resources
- Concordia College Virtual Library
- PALS (home pages for all PALS libraries in Minnesota)
- WebPals (search engine for MnSCU, U of M, Private Colleges, State Government Libraries)
- Minitex (Minnesota's Electronic Books Collections)
- Minnesota Library Directory
- Minnesota Historical Library
- MnLink (search engine MnSCU, U of M, Private Colleges, Public Libraries)
- Minnesota Newspapers Directory
- Minnesota Newspaper Web Sites
- University of Minnesota Library
Other Library Resources
- A Celebration of Women Writers
- American Journalism Review (Newspapers, Magazines, Articles, Archives)
- American Library Association
- Classical Literature Archives
- Electronic Library
- The Internet Public Library
- LibDex- The Library Index
- Libraries on the Web (World library links)
- Library of Congress
- LibWeb-Library Servers via WWW
- LibrarySpot
- Online Library
- PBS Online
- Presidential Libraries
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
Dictionaries
Directories
- BigBook (Yellow Pages, People Pages, City Pages, Maps, Directions, etc.)
- Explore Minnesota
- Mapblast
- Mapquest
- National Atlas (interactive, multimedia maps)
- Rand McNally (free directions, maps, road trip guides)
- Switchboard.com (City Guides, directories, maps)
- Twin Cities Directories, Newspapers, Classifieds and General Information
Encyclopedias
General Reference
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
- Biography.com (the research behind the TV program)
- BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper (Discovery.com)
- Copyright Clearance Center
- Digital Librarian (A librarian's choice of the best of the web.)
- Finding Pro and Con on an Issue (Links to help you prove any argument)
- Information Please Almanac
- Learn the Net
- The Librarians' Index to the Internet
- My Virtual Reference Desk
- Research-It! (one-stop reference desk)
- SearchEd (20 million university and education pages)
- The World Factbook (as reported by the CIA)
Government
- Government Information Sharing Project
- Government Printing Office (Government documents for all agencies)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Fedstats (one-stop-shop for federal statistics)
- IRS Taxforms
- Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
- Minnesota Tax Forms
- National Institute of Justice
- NorthStar - Minnesota State Government On Line
- SearchGov
- Taxweb
- THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
- United States Department of Justice
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
- The White House
Law Resources
- Law Dictionaries
- Law Library Resource Xchange
- Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
- Minnesota State Law Library
- Thomas Register - Library of Congress
Medical Resources
Museums
- Andy Warhol Museum
- Boston Museum of Science
- California Academy of Sciences
- Exploratorium
- The Franklin Institute
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
- University of California, Berkeley - Museum of Paleontology
Search Engines
- Alta Vista
- Ask Jeeves
- BUBL Information (Search engine designed for Higher Ed)
- Excite
- INFOMINE (Scholarly Internet Resource Collections)
- LookSmart
- Lycos
- MegaGo
- Search.com (searches more than 800 specialized engines from around the web)
- Search Engine Showdown
- Search Engine Watch (search engine listing, search engine submission tips, web searching tips)
- Webcrawler
- Yahoo!
Style Resources
- APA Style Resources
- Internet Citation Guides
- Purdue University Online Writing Lab
- Purdue University THOR: The Online Resource
- The Quick Guide to MLA
- The Quick Guide to APA
- Research and Documentation Online
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