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Book Purchasing

  • Amazon.com   (use this link and raise $$ for CFLC!)
  • Abebooks  (independent booksellers; new, used, rare, out-of-print, textbooks, more)
  • AddALL  (compares prices at 40+ online booksellers; includes music, movies, magazines)
  • Alibris  (independent booksellers; new, used, rare, out-of-print, textbooks, movies, music)
  • Barnes and Noble   (interviews, reviews, discounted books)
  • Bookfinder  (book search engine; claims 60,000+ booksellers searched)
  • Books Out of Print®    (courtesy trial available)
  • BookWeb
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  • Epinions.com Books [formerly DealTime and before that, Acses and DealPilot]     (check book prices at over 20 online bookstores; allows searching by award winners)
  • Wordsworth (children's books and toys)

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Colleges & Universities

  • Chronicle of Higher Education
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  • College Board Online     (including ExPAN Scholarship Search)
  • College Choice   (a nonprofit information service for college bound students)
  • CollegeNET     (U.S. colleges & universities; includes online applications and scholarship/financial aid database)
  • Directory of Institutions Offering Accredited Master's Programs
  • Directory of non-U.S. Colleges & Universities  (from Yahoo)
  • Directory of U.S. Colleges & Universities  (from Google)
  • Directory of U.S. Colleges & Universities  (from Yahoo)
  • eCollegeApps - Online College Applications (U.S. college and university applications available online or via U.S. mail)
  • Financial Aid Resources
  • Florida Academic Counseling and Tracking for Students  (FACTS.org)
  • Florida Universities & Colleges
  • FSU School of Information Studies
  • Kaplan - Test Preparation  (download free test-preparation software)
  • LIS Schools on the Internet
  • Next Stop College     (From College Board; includes widely accepted Universal Application online form)
  • Princeton Review Online
  • StudentLoan.com   (Citibank site)
  • Textbooks Online   (order new & used college textbooks online and save $$)
  • USF School of Library & Information Science
  • U.S. News America's Best Colleges Index    (some content free; some fee)
  • U.S. News Education Section    (rankings, financial aid, deadlines)
  • U.S. News Education/College Section    (interactive tools to help choose & rank schools)
  • U.S. News Education/Careers Section    (interactive tools to help choose careers & jobs)
  • University Policy Handbook Index
  • World Lecture Hall (course materials)
  • Yahoo! Directory College Admissions > Online Applications
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    Directories

    General Address/Phone Directories

  • Addresses  (a list from Michigan eLibrary)
  • Addresses.com  (whilte & yellow pages, e-mail & reverse directories, celebrity addresses, criminal records)
  • AnyWho  (telephone number, e-mail, homepage URL, FAX, toll-free, and address)
  • Bigfoot   (searches simultaneously for white pages and e-mail data)
  • Dr. Dave's UK (United Kingdom) Pages    (telephone directories and much more!!)
  • Google Web Search Features: Phone Book
  • Infobel.com: Telephone Directories on the Web    (domestic and international)
  • InfoSpace - The Ultimate Directory    (great resource; includes a reverse lookup feature)
  • Reverse Phone Directory  (search multiple listings)
  • SuperPages  [was BigBook]  (yellow & white pages, cities, consumer info)
  • Switchboard Residential/Business Locator
  • WhitePages.com
  • WhoWhere?
  • Worldpages Tollfree Search Page
  • Yahoo! People Search [was Four11 Directory Service]  (find telephone numbers or e-mail addresses)
  • Yahoo! Yellow Pages
  • YellowNet World-Wide Pages
  • Specialized Directories

  • Anybirthday.com Birthdate Search Engine
  • Associations on the Net
  • Associations Search (searchable databases from the American Society of Association Executives)
  • ATM Locator
  • Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
  • College E-Mail Addresses
  • Directory of Legal Academia   (contact info U.S. law school faculty/staff)
  • EmbassyWorld
  • EuroPages  (European business directory)
  • Get Human  (how to get around corporate automated phone systems)
  • International Dialing Codes
  • Internet 800 Directory  (800 and 888 listings of businesses by company, number, and type of industry)
  • K-12 School Directory      (Internet guide to all 106,000+ K-12 Schools in U.S.)
  • Scholarly Societies Project  (searchable by subject, country, language, and founding date)
  • Yahoo! Celebrity Addresses
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    Employment

    For Library Jobs - See CFLC's Employment Resources for Librarians

    General Job Search Sites

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    Encyclopedias

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    Entertainment

  • Art Museum Network
  • Artcom Museum Tour   (search by state or museum name)
  • Billboard
  • Broadway OnLine  (Broadway plays and musicals)
  • Broadway.com  (Broadway and London theater tickets, news, reviews)
  • Citysearch Orlando  (entertainment, restaurants, events, hotels, movies and businesses)
  • Culture Finder
  • Dining Guides  (from Google)
  • Disney Online Home Page
  • E! Online
  • Emmys Online   (Academy of Television Arts & Sciences)
  • Encyclopedia of Television
  • Fandango (movie tickets online)
  • Film.com     (movie reviews, interviews, order videos online)
  • Golden Globe Awards  (Hollywood Foreign Press Association)
  • Grammy Awards  (The Recording Academy)
  • IMDb  (The Internet Movie Database)
  • InterCharge    (reserve discounted seats to NYC shows, Broadway plays, museums, etc.)
  • La-La Land Library  (extensive links on movies and tv)
  • Moviefone/Movies Online
  • MuseumSpot  (museums loosely defined)
  • Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment  ("Calendar Online")
  • Oscar.com     (a guide to the Oscars including a searchable index of past winners and nominees)
  • Playbill On-Line    (Broadway, regional U.S. theatre, London and more)
  • Sea World
  • Theater Arts Subject Page
  • Ticketmaster Online
  • Tony Awards   (The American Theatre Wing)
  • TV Guide
  • Universal Studios
  • Yahoo! Entertainment  (movies, TV, news, celebrities)
  • Yahoo! Get Local  (choose by geography)
  • Yahoo! TV  (listings, ratings, and more)
  • Zagat's Restaurant Guide
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    Homeschooling Resources (click on link)

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    Internet & Web Guides

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    Maps, Atlases, & Geographic Information

    Driving Directions & Maps

    Outline Maps

    Other Maps & Collections

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    Marketing Resources

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    Medical & Health Information

    "Medical & Health" Search Engines

    Health A to Z
    Medscape

  • AAAAI Patients & Consumers Center  (from the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology)
  • AAHA (American Animal Hospital Association)  (locate vets & pet health information)
  • AMA Physician Select
  • Al-Anon/Alateen Home Page
  • Alcohol Studies Database
  • American Dental Association (ADA)   (includes "find a dentist" feature)
  • American Medical Association (AMA)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Clipart - Medical
  • Combined Health Information Database - National Institutes of Health
  • Drug Study Central
  • eMedicine     (online articles for medical professionals and the public; requires free registration)
  • Fitness Online
  • Florida Dept. of Health
  • Florida Dept. of Health Physician Profiles  (check out your doctor's qualifications)
  • Florida Nursing Home Guide
  • Florida Prescription Drug Prices (also en Español)
  • FMA Online - Florida Medical Association
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Hardin MetaDirectory of Internet Health Sources
  • Healthfinder    (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services site  with  3,200+ links)
  • Health Library     (includes over 200 sites reviewed by medical librarians)
  • Health Statistics    (FastStats from National Center for Health Statistics)
  • Health World Online
  • Healthy Body Calculator  (determine body-mass index and ideal weight)
  • HIV Insite     (Univ. of California San Francisco AIDS Research Institute)
  • JAMA - The Journal of the American Medical Association
  • Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • KidsHealth
  • LocateADoc.com    (physician & healthcare provider "locator")
  • Martindale's Health Science Guide
  • Medical Dictionary
  • Medical Journals Online - WebMedLit
  • Medicare Information & Publications
  • MedicineNet
  • MedlinePlus (from the National Library of Medicine aimed at consumers -- BEST STARTING PLACE!!!!)
  • MedlinePlus en Español
  • Ask Cosmo  (artificial intelligent agent for questions about NLM products & services)
  • Medscape     (full-text articles from the NIH, CDC and more)
  • Mental Health Net
  • Merck Manual of Diagnosis & Therapy (17th ed.)
  • MLANET (Medical Library Association)
  • National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
  • National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization  (includes U.S. hospice "locator")
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • National Library of Medicine    (includes free access to Medline)
  • New England Journal of Medicine On-Line
  • NOAH (New York Online Access to Health)
  • OncoLink   (cancer information)
  • Pan American Health Organization
  • Parent's Place
  • PubMed (Web-based access to Medline)
  • RxList - The Internet Drug Index
  • RxMed
  • SmileFinder.com   ("locator" for U.S. & Canadian dentists)
  • VetCentric Encyclopedia
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