The Statesboro Regional Library Reference Department staff is ready to answer your questions. The Reference Collection includes books in all subject areas, and we can assist you in finding the right resources whether your question is about literature, medicine, grant opportunities, the law, etc... We provide reference service during regular business hours, and questions are taken over the phone (912) 764-1337. If you are unable to contact us during regular business hours, you may submit your question by using our ask-a-librarian webform.
Note: The quality of information available over the Internet varies considerably. Note: The sites in this section were selected based on their appropriateness at the time of selection. Statesboro Regional Library System is not responsible for the content of these sites. If a link to one of the sites is not working, please e-mail the web master.
Awards and Prizes
British Monarchs
Daily Almanac
InfoPlease
ArtCyclopedia
Art History Resources
CGFA Index
National Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art
50 states
Biomes
Bulloch County Maps
CIA World Factbook
Georgia County Snapshots
Geography Network
Georgia Census Maps
Biographical Dictionary
Science Biographies
Thomas Register
Business Wire
Consumer Product Sasfety Commission
FCIC Page
Martindale's
Measure 4 Measure
Convertalot
Roman Numerals
Units of Measurement
World Time Server
Biographical Dictionary
Idioms Dictionary
The Ism Book
Merriam-Webster
Symbols Dictionary
CollegeNET
FAFSA
US Department of EDucation
Georgia High School Graduation Test
FedWorld
USA.gov
THOMAS
US Government Manual
Public and Private Laws
FedLaw
Georgia Code
Georgia Legal Services
Georgia Official and Statistical Register
Georgia Courts
NOLO Legal Forms
Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
U.S. Code
Zach Henderson Library
PAL-American Authors
IPL Literary Criticism
Literary Movements
Literary Resources on the Net
Mr. William Shakespeare
Talk Show Transcripts
Total News
The Week Ahead
Newspapers USA/Worldwide
Almanacs
Links to various awards: academy awards, grammy awards, hugo, nobel prize, tony awards and others.
Biographical information on British royalty from 802 AD - present day.
Links to almanacs and "cool" sites.
Combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several up-to-the minute almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records, Infoplease places the resources of an entire reference information center at your fingertips.
Arts
A comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. We have started out by covering the biggest and best sites around, and have links for most well-known artists to keep you surfing for hours. Update February/2002: We have now indexed 1200 arts sites, and offer more than 32,000 links to an estimated 100,000 works by 7,500 renowned artists.
Search art links arranged by category (Prehistoric, Near East, Ancient Rome, Gothic, Carolingian etc...) or by century. Maintained by Chris Witcombe- Professor, Art History, Sweet Briar College.
Search by artist's name, or by nationality or time frame .
The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present.
The Web Gallery of Art contains over 11,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. A considerable number of the pictures are commented and biographies of the significant artists are given..
Atlases
Blank outline maps for all 50 states in the U.S.
This module presents basic content on the distribution and nature of the world's major biomes. It considers the structure, characteristic growthforms, and taxonomic affiliations of the vegetation; major soil order(s); and common adaptive characteristics of the fauna of the tundra, boreal forest, temperate broadleaf deciduous forest, tropical broadleaf evergreen forest, tropical savanna, temperate grasslands, desertscrub, and Mediterranean shrub biomes. Study hints and critical thinking questions follow the content units.
Historical Maps of Bulloch County Georgia: 1822; 1823; 1830; 1834; 1839; 1846; 1855; 1863; 1864; 1865; 1874; 1883; 1885; 1895; 1899; 1904; 1910; 1915; 1952; 1955; 1970; 1999; 2001.
Facts about countries of the world: people, geography, government, economy, communications, military. Summarizes each countries political leaders and history.
First published in 1994, Georgia County Snapshots provides brief descriptions of the state's 159 counties and has been used by teachers, students, business leaders, elected officials and others for various research and presentation purposes.
The Geography Network is a global network of geographic information users and providers. Through the Geography Network, you can access many types of geographic content including dynamic maps, downloadable data, and more advanced Web services. The Geography Network is managed and maintained by ESRI, the world leader in the geographic information system (GIS) industry. It is intended to support the vision of a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) enabling ready access to geographic information.
Goergia County Formation Maps: 1758-Present, and Georgia Census Maps 1790-1930. Early Georgia maps are crucial for tracing colonial families.
Biography
This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords.
1,066 entries, covering various branches of science. This resource has been assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the internet community..
Business
homas Register is the most comprehensive online resource for finding companies and products manufactured in North America. View thousands of online company catalogs and websites. Simply enter one or more words into the search box after selecting the product, company, or brand name you're looking for to search from over 72,000 product headings and more than 170,000 company listings.
In addition to current and archived business news, this website provides a useful calendar of events including upcoming trade shows, conference calls, and Business Wire events. Registration is free and required to view the news articles.
Consumer Info
CPSC is an Independent Federal Regulatory Agency. CPSC works to save lives and keep families safe by reducing the risk of injuries and deaths associated with consumer products. .
Consumer information articles (Pueblo, Co.).
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Converters / Calculators
Martindale's 'The Reference Desk' Calculator contains over "23,000" Calculators created by over "3,045" very "CREATIVE" Individuals, Businesses & Tax Supported Entities World Wide.
Links to science, health, finance, & household calculators.
A collection of measurement calculators and converters for all occasions. Most of them are interactive, some are just for information. All the interactive pages are implemented in JavaScript so make sure your browser is JavaScript enabled.
Convert between arabic numerals and roman numerals
English/Metric units, + wind chill, hurricane scales
World Time Server provides the most accurate current local times of any world clock on the Internet. It makes real time adjustments for Daylight Saving Time. No matter what time zone a country or city is located in, this site provides your best resource for determining any time, anywhere.
Dictionaries
This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords.
Idioms are words, phrases, or expressions that are peculiar either grammatically, as in "Long time, no see!" or there is a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements, as in "It's raining cats and dogs!" Every language has idioms, and they are challenging for foreign students to learn. I've tried to make them a little easier for you by giving you the meaning, and an example for each idiom.
Definitions for various ism's: This site defines philosophical ideas, theories, or methods handed down and consciously continued from generation to generation or from one historical era to another. (ex. Aristotelianism; Gnosticism; Dualism; Deconstructionism).
The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate? Dictionary, Tenth Edition. The online dictionary includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate? Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections of that book. It also includes 1,000 illustrations and 25 tables.
More than 2,500 Western signs (histories, uses and meanings).
Education
CollegeNET, Inc. is the world's leading 'virtual plumber' for higher education internet transactions. We aggregate here for your convenience over 1500 customized Internet admissions applications built for college and university programs.
Are you considering attending a college or career school? To help you, the U.S. Department of Education offers a variety of student financial aid programs.
Information is presented in multiple ways, including in five categories: grants and contracts, financial aid for students, education resources, research and statistics, and policy. Audience pages provide selected ED information for teachers, principals, parents and families, students, higher education administrators and institutions, and grantees and technical assistance providers.
Study guide to the GHSGT. The Georgia High School Graduation Tests cover only a sample of the knowledge and skills that constitute a complete high school education. A Georgia high school graduate will have had opportunities to learn -and is expected to have mastered - much more than these tests can address. The knowledgeand skills assessed on the graduation tests were selected by Georgia educators, including high school teachers and curriculum specialists. They are based on the learning objectives specified in the Quality Core Curriculum for grades 9-12, as established by the State Board of Education.
Employment
Government
The FedWorld.gov web site is a gateway to government information. This site is managed by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) as part of it's information management mandate.
On USA.gov, you can search more than 51 million web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Most of these pages are not available on commercial websites. FirstGov has the most comprehensive search of government anywhere on the Internet.
In the spirit of THOMAS Jefferson, the Library of Congress provides you with searchable information about the U.S. Congress and the legislative process. Search bills, by topic , bill number, or title. Search through and read the text of the Congressional Record. Search and find committee reports by topic or committee name.
As the official handbook of the Federal Government, The United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. The Manual also includes information on quasiofficial agencies; international organizations in which the United States participates; and boards, commissions, and committees.
Health
Legal
The following catalog lists Public and Private Laws currently available in electronic format. GPO Access continues to add Public and Private Laws irregularly as they become available during each session of Congress. If you do not see the Public and Private Law you are looking for within these catalogs, it is not contained in the GPO Access database.
FedLaw was developed to see if legal resources on the Internet could be a useful and cost-effective research tool for Federal lawyers and other Federal employees. Fedlaw has assembled references of use to people doing Federal legal research and which can be accessed directly through "point and click" hypertext connections.
This site provides access to the Official Code of Georgia. No case law or other state materials are offered. The Code is updated one time per year once the supplement to the print edition of the O.C.G.A. has been prepared and distributed to subscribers.
Georgia Legal Services, an independent, non-profit organization, provides free legal services to low-income people in civil matters in the 154 Georgia counties outside the 5 county Atlanta metropolitan area. The mission of Georgia Legal Services is to work for equal access to justice under law to all people of Georgia.
Administrative rules and regulations: agency, commission and board rules and regulations to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act for the State of Georgia. A summary of official and unofficial Attorney General opinions. A summary of state contracts or request for proposals. Legislative information including full text of bills with search capabilities, bill status, and legislative committees. Executive orders issued by the Governor. The hearing calendar of the Supreme Court.
This site is maintained by the Technology and Research division of the Administrative Office of the Courts, an agency staffing the Judicial Council of Georgia ("JCG"), for use by judicial branch personnel and citizens of the State of Georgia.
This site allows you to prepare customized legal documents directly online. Choose any of the documents offered, complete the questions, click the "Submit" button, and the finished document is ready for you to either download to file or print to your printer. Many documents are free. All others are available from $5.50 to $89.75, depending on the complexity of the document. YOu can prepare customized legal docs online (some are free).
The conversion of the Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia from paper to an electronic medium that allows this information to be accessed on the Internet has been completed and is being made available as a public service by the Office of Secretary of State in conjunction with the GeorgiaNet Authority. In the preparation of this information every effort has been made to insure the accuracy of the converted chapters.
This version is generated from the most recent version made available by the US House of Representatives. For exact information about the currency of any particular title as it is published by the House, see the listing on the House server. The date of any text appearing on this site appears in italics at the upper right in every Code section.
Libraries
Zach S. Henderson Library supports Georgia Southern University by providing access to information, collections, and services designed to meet the scholarly needs of the University and the general public.
Literature
With nearly 400 pages, including over 330 author pages, this site is a significant presence in American literature on the web. It has been found useful by readers around the world. It is a research and reference tool, not a term paper factory. This site is particularly useful for those who have no or limited access to university libraries and databases.
The IPL LiteraryCriticism Collection contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
Links to infromation about various American literary movements such as: sentimentalism, transcendentalism, jeremiads, naturalism, and travel narratives.
This set of pages is a collection of links to sites on the Internet dealing especially with English and American literature, excluding most single electronic texts, and is limited to collections of information useful to academics -- I've excluded most poetryjournals, for instance. Maintained by Jack Lynch Assistant Professor in the English Department of the Newark campus of Rutgers University, specializing in the English literature of the eighteenth century.
A major new addition to the pages is a Shakespeare Timeline which is an online biography mounted at this site. Part of the timeline is a separate Shakespeare genealogical chart and a timeline summary chart that places the events of Shakespeare's life into historical context. The critical resources page has grown to the extent that it has been sub-divided into several pages.
News Media
Transcripts primarily from political tv programs: NBC's Meet The Press; ABC's This Week; CNN's Late Edition; The Capital Gang; CBS's Face The Nation; Beltway Boys; and McLaughlin Group.
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. TotalNEWS is a search engine and directory of news sites designed to increase your access to information.
Every week BBC Monitoring publishes a news diary which is available free online. It lists key political and economic events expected to take place over a period of 10 days and is a valuable tool for planning purposes. The diary includes: official visits; elections; meetings; and anniversaries.
Links to newspapers in the U.S. and worldwide. Search by geographic location or by name.
Phone directories
Ready Reference