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Acronyms

• Acronym Finder
• Acronym and abbreviation list

• Information Please

• Bridges to Art - access to images from the Worcester Art Museum
• Artnet.com
• Metropolitan Museum of Art's timeline of art history

• Associations on the Net

• CIA World Factbook 2000
• Color Landform Atlas of the United States (Ryan Foster, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
• Mapquest
• National Atlas of the United States of America
• U.S. Gazetteer (U.S. Census Bureau)
• USGS Mapping Information: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
• World Gazetteer

Awards

• Nobel Foundation
• Pulitzer Prizes

• Biography Resouce Center
  (MWCC students only - Off-campus access requires log in with valid library barcode number)

Certifications

• http://www.certification-crazy.net - a website designed to help people studying for I.T. certifications by providing free information and other free training resources.

Classification Systems

• Dewey Decimal
  • http://www.oclc.org/dewey/updates/
  • http://www.oclc.org/dewey/about/hundreds.htm
  Library of Congress
  • http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html
  • http://www.tlcdelivers.com/tlc/crs/lcso0001.htm
    
    

Colleges & Universities

• Campus Explorer
• College Board College Search
• CollegeNET
• Community College Web

• Tech Encyclopedia - More than 20,000 definitions of computer terms and concepts.
• webopedia.com - a dictionary of over 4,000 computer- and Internet-related terms, with links to related articles and resources.
• Whatis.com - Hyper-linked definitions of thousands of Internet and computer related terms.

• Universal Currency Converter
• Historical Daily Currency Exchange Rate, 1995-

• Digital Book Catalog - digital Audio Books and eBooks
  • To access these digital books you will need:
    • A valid library barcode
    • Access to the Internet
    • Free software for the computer and/or device on which you wish to use the material you download from this site
• Project Gutenberg
• NetLibrary
  (MWCC students only - Off-campus access requires log in with valid library barcode number)
• Credo Reference (formerly known as Xrefer) - Provides online equivalents to high quality dictionaries and encyclopedias
  (MWCC students only - Off-campus access requires log in with valid library barcode number)

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
  (MWCC students only - Off-campus access requires log in with valid library barcode number)
• Assorted Encyclopedias on the Web
• Credo Reference (formerly known as Xrefer) - Provides online equivalents to high quality dictionaries and encyclopedias
  (MWCC students only - Off-campus access requires log in with valid library barcode number)
  
  

• National Environmental Directory - lists more than 13,000 organizations

• FirstGov - FirstGov T is the U.S. government's official web portal
• Federal Tax Forms
• United States Code (Code of Federal Regulations)
• United States Government Manual
• Federal Documents on the Web - compiled by the Government Documents Department at UMass, DuBois Library

• Butterflies of North America

• MWCC Financial Aid links
• UMass Financial Aid links
• Libarian's Index to the Internet links

• Your Dictionary.Com

• ditto.com - a visual search engine
• Barry's Clip Art

• FreeBooknotes.com - study guides for over 250 books
• Bibliomania - texts, biographies, thesauri, literary analyses

• Community Information Online (via CWMARS)
• Greater Gardner Chamber of Commerce
• North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce

• Massachusetts Library Legislative Information
• Massachusetts State Web Site
• Massachusetts State Tax Forms and Publications
• State Documents on the Web - compiled by the Government Documents Department at UMass, DuBois Library
• MassStats - Division of Employment and Training Web-based labor market system that gives a wide variety of economic data for the state of Massachusetts and its local areas.
• Central Register - http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/35812

• Merck Manuals - including Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, Merck Manual of Medical Information, Merck Manual of Geriatrics, and the Merck Index
• Columbia Complete Home Medical Guide
• Travelers' Health - site maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Lists recommended vaccinations, checklists, and medical emergencies
• Quackwatch
• RXList - commercial site providing drug information
• Merriam - Webster Medical Dictionary

• U.S. Yellow Pages
• Telephone Directories on the Web
• Toll Free Directory
• Reverse Lookups (phone)

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations

• U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Census Bureau
• State Health Facts Online

• EasyBib: 
  • First, go to: http://www.easybib.com/bib4school_register/147/1237597218 
    to set up an account
  • From then on, go to: http://www.easybib.com/bib4school_login/147 and log-in with your username and password
    
• Learning to Love the Research Paper - MWCC Academic Support Center (help with APA and MLA Styles)
• Laguardia Community College Library - Documentation Style for Works Cited
• Duke Library Guide to Assembling a List of Works Cited
• MLA website
• APA website
• http://www.docstyles.com/archive/apacrib.pdf - APA Crib Sheet
• Word 2007 - bibliographic citation tool instructions

Veterinary Science

• Merck Veterinary Manual

Vital Records (birth, death, marriage, or divorce and voting information)

• CDC Where to Write for Vital Records

Voting Information

• VOTE 2008 - by the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts
• Project Votesmart - www.votesmart.org

• Intellicast - Gardner area forecast
• Yahoo weather - Gardner area forecast
• National Weather Service

• U. S. Zip Code Lookup (U. S. Postal Service)