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‎Calendars & Calculators

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=Info Island Main Library Resources=

==Notecard Books==
*The Age of Innocense by Edith Wharton
*The Beast Book, images by Darkling Elytis
*Call of the Wild by Jack London
*Changling Snippet by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
*Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
*Dracula by Bram Stoker
*Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow
*Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
*Hamlet by William Shakespeare
*Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
*The Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
*King of Morning, Queen of Day, images by Darklin Elytis
*King Lear by William Shakespeare
*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
*Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
*Loose Cannon Snippet by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
*Macbeth by William Shakespeare
*Master Walk Snippet by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
*The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
*Midsummer's Nights Dream by William Shakespeare
*Moby Dick by Herman Melville
*The Naming of Kinzel SNippet by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
*Quiet Knives Snippets by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
*Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
*Song of Solomon
*Sonnets by William Shakespeare
*Starfish by Peter Watts
*The Tempest by WIlliam Shakespeare
*Three Lives by Gertude Stein
*The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
*The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
*The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
*Richard III by William Shakespeare
*War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

==Audio Books==
*The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe
*The Children of the Zodiac
*The Diamond Necklace
*Dayrimple Goes Wrong
*The Gettysburg Address
*The Gift of the Maji
*Heart of Darkness by Conrad Aiken
*I Have a Dream
*The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe
*Sermon on the Mount
*Taming the Bicycle
*The Telltale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe
*Young Goodman Brown

==Read In-World Books==
*Dobbit-Do by Woodward & Witt
*Sharon by Woodward & Witt

==Internet Resources (linked from books)==
===General===
*[http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/| 2006 Statistical Abstract]
*[http://www.libraryspot.com/almanacs.htm| Almanacs]
*[http://www.bartleby.com/69/| Columbia Gazeteer of North America]
*[http://www.encyclopedia.com| encyclopedia.com]
*[http://www.infoplease.com| Info Please]
*[http://www.bartleby.com/108/| King James Holy Bible]
*[http://www.metaversemessenger.com| Metaverse Messenger]
*[http://encarta.msn.com| MSN Encarta Encyclopedia]
*[http://www.bartleby.com/62/|Roget's New Thesaurus]
*[http://www.secondlifeherald.com| Second Life Herald]

==Internet Resources (linked from monitors)==
===Dictionaries & Encyclopedias===
*[http://www.stands4.com/| Abbreviationz]
*[http://www.acronymfinder.com/| Acronym Finder]
*[http://www.notam02.no/~hcholm/altlang/| Alternative Dictionaries]
*[http://www.askoxford.com/?view=uk| AskOxford.com]
*[http://www.bartleby.com/65/| Columbia Encyclopedia]
*[http://www.britannica.com/| Encyclopedia Britannica Online]
*[http://www.freepint.com/gary/handbook.htm| Fast Facts]
*[http://www.50states.com/| Fifty States]
*[http://www.50states.com/| Free Dictionary]
*[http://www.encyclopedia.com/| High Beam Encyclopedia]
*[http://www.idiomsite.com/| Idiomsite]
*[http://www.infoplease.com/| InfoPlease]
*[http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms| Internet Acronym Server]
*[http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms| Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia]
*[http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/| MediLexicon]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page| MSN Encarta]
*[http://www.netlingo.com/| NetLingo]
*[http://www.almanac.com/| Old Farmer's Almanac]
*[http://www.onelook.com/| OneLook Dictionary]
*[http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/| TechWeb Encyclopedia]
*[http://www.blueray.com/dictionary/| Strange & Unusual Dictionaries]
*[http://www.symbols.com/| Symbols.com]
*[http://www.techterms.org/| TechTerms]
*[http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/| US Dept. of Defence Military Terms]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page| Wikipedia]

===Literature Online===
*[http://www.infomotions.com/alex/| Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts]
*[http://www.bibliomania.com/| Bibliomania]
*[http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html| Complete Works of Shakespeare]
*[http://www.classicauthors.net/| ClassicAuthors.net]
*[http://www.digitalbookindex.com/| Digital Book Index]
*[http://drama.eserver.org/| EServer Drama Collection]
*[http://eserver.org/fiction/| EServer Fiction Collection]
*[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html| Folklore and Mythology Electronic Texts]
*[http://www.duke.edu/~mshumate/hyperfic.html| Hyperizons Hypertext Fiction]
*[http://www.ibiblio.org/| ibiblio digital archive]
*[http://classics.mit.edu/| Internet Classics Archive]
*[http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/| Online Books Page]
*[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_Greco-Roman.html| Perseus Digital Library]
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page| Project Gutenberg]
*[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm| Representative Poetry Online]
*[http://www.short-stories.co.uk/| Short Stories}
*[http://www.sonnets.org/| Sonnet Central]
*[http://www.technotopia.com/books/| Technotopia]
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html| Turning the Pages]
*[http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-top.html| World Wide School]

===News Online===

ABC
http://abcnews.go.com/

BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/

BizJournal
http://www.bizjournals.com/

Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/

CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/

CNN
http://cnn.com

Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/

Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/

London Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/global

NBC
http://www.nbc.com/News_&_Sports/

News.Com
http://news.com

New York Times
http://nyt.com

Wall Street Journal = http://online.wsj.com/public/us

Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com

===Calendars & Calculators===

American Secular Holidays http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ushols.html

Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar http://www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html

Calendar of Jewish Holidays http://bnaibrith.org/programs/jholidays/index.cfm

Calendar Zone
http://www.calendarzone.com/

Calendars through the Ages http://webexhibits.org/calendars/

Interfeaith Calendar http://www.interfaithcalendar.org/

Multicultural Calendar http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/

Online Photoperiod Calculator http://www.sci.fi/~benefon/sol.html

Panchangram Hindu Vedic Calendar http://www.panchangam.com/

Perpetual Calendar http://www.calendarhome.com/tyc/

Virtual Perpetual Calendar http://www.vpcalendar.net/

AskNumbers.com
http://www.asknumbers.com/

Calculator.com
http://www.calculator.com/

Common Weights and Measures http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/links/weights/index.html

Convert Plus
http://convertplus.com/en

Cost-of-Living Calculator http://www.newsengin.com/neFreeTools.nsf/CPIcalc

Dictionary of Units http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm

Dictionary of Units of Measurement http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/

Footrule.com http://www.footrule.com/1/homepage.htm?sr=index

Inflation Calculator http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

Inflation Conversion Factors http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/pol_sci/fac/sahr/sahr.htm

Measurement Conversion http://www.convert-me.com/en/

Medical Algorithms Project http://www.medal.org/visitor/login.aspx

MegaConverter http://www.megaconverter.com/Mega2/

Metric Conversion Factors http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/reference/metrics/factors.htm

Oanda Currency Conversion http://www.oanda.com/

Original Tipping Page http://www.tipping.org/TopPage.shtml

Periodic Table Toolbox http://library.thinkquest.org/11771/english/hi/chemistry/periodic/?tqskip1=1

Relocation Caculator http://www.homefair.com/homefair/calc/salcalc.html

Roman Numeral Date Conversion http://www2.inetdirect.net/~charta/Roman_numerals.html

Temperature Conversion http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/links/temperature.html

Time Zone Check http://www.timezonecheck.com/

Time Zone Converter http://www.timezoneconverter.com/

Travel Tools
http://www.tyzo.com/tools/

Unit Converter
http://library.thinkquest.org/11771/english/hi/chemistry/convert.shtml?tqskip=1

Universal Currency Converter http://www.xe.com/ucc/

USA Today Money Calculator http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/calculators/calculator.htm

===Genealogy===

African American Ancestry http://africanancestry.com/

Cyndi's List = http://www.cyndislist.com/

Ellis Island http://www.ellisisland.org/default.asp?SID=2181602

Family Records - UK http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/

National Archives & Records Administration http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/

National Genealogical Society http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/

National Geographic Genographic Project https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/

Nara Military Records http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel/

National Archives & Records Administration http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/

RootsWeb = http://www.rootsweb.com/

US GenWeb Project
http://www.usgenweb.org/

Y-Base
http://www.ybase.org/

Y-Search
http://www.ysearch.org/

===Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transsexual/Queer Resources===

The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies http://web.gc.cuny.edu/clags/index.html

Children of Lesbians & Gays Everywhere
http://www.colage.org/

Curvemag.com
http://www.curvemag.com/

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture
http://www.glbtq.com/

The Gay Financial Network http://www.gfn.com/

Gay Fiction Anthology Index http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/ghuber1/i
ndex/shortstory.index.html

Guardian Unlimited -Gay Rights http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/

Federation of Gay Games http://www.gaygames.com/en/

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
http://www.iglhrc.org/site/iglhrc/

International Lesbian and Gay Association http://www.ilga.org/

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force http://www.thetaskforce.org/

Out.com
http://www.out.com/

Stateline.org http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=15576

===Legal Resources===

====New Contents 10/2====
Books containing links
*Voter Registration & Education
*Watchdog Groups
*Government Sites on Elections and Ethics
*Money and Ethics in Politics

====New Contents 9/28====
*Poster: Voting information posters (links to LWV registration/info site)
*Book: Jankowich, Andrew E. Property and Democracy in Virtual Worlds. 11 Boston University Journal of *Science & Technology Law 173 (2005) http://www.bu.edu/law/scitech/volume11issue2/JankowichArticleWEB.pdf Quote from intro and link to full article.

====New Contents 9/27====
Books
*"Law and Virtual Worlds," Law Review Articles Dealing with Viirtual Worlds and Online Gaming *(Bibliography). By Cat Galileo
*Hamdan v Rumsfeld (syllabus of US Supreme Court decision; live URL to pdf of complete text)

====New contents 9/26====
*Banned Books Week monitor (live urls, and notecard with description)
**What is Banned Books Week?
**Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century
**Explore Banned Books with Google
**Banned/Challenged American novels
**ALA Banned Books Week Podcast
**Vote for your favorite challenged book! Get involved. Find out how!

====Previous contents====
*United States Legal Resources (notecards in freebie giver)
**United States Legal Resources - About these Cards
**US Code (Official Federal law)
**US Federal Court Information
**US Federal Documents (GPO Full Text)
**US Congress Biographies - 1774 on
**US Federal Government Resources on the Web
**US Federal Statistics
**US Historic Legal Documents
**US Law Reviews
**US Legal Dictionaries
**US Legal Forms, free to download
**US Legal Forms, part 2
**US Legislation information
**US Public Records Finder
**US Secondary Sources
**US Supreme Court Cases
**US White House - Presidency

*Major US Cases (notecards in freebie giver)
**About these Cards: US Major Cases
**1803- Madison v. Marbury
**1819- M'Culloch v. Maryland
**1821- Gibbons v. Ogden
**1824- The Apollon, Edon. Claim
**1857- Dred Scott v. Sandford
**1862- The Brig Amy Warwick, et al.
**1872- United States v. Klein
**1879- Ex Parte Virginia
**1880- Strauder v. W. Virginia
**1963- Gideon v. Wainwright
**1966- Miranda v. Arizona
**1971- Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents
**1971- New York Times v. US ("Pentagon Papers")

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 Common Weights and Measures  http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/links/weights/index.html
 Convert Plus
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 Cost-of-Living Calculator  http://www.newsengin.com/neFreeTools.nsf/CPIcalc
 Dictionary of Units of Measurement http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/

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 *[http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html| Complete Works of Shakespeare]
 *[http://www.classicauthors.net/| ClassicAuthors.net]
-*[http://www.digitalbookindex.com/| Digital Book Index]
+*[http://www.digitalbookindex.com/ Digital Book Index]
 *[http://drama.eserver.org/| EServer Drama Collection]
 *[http://eserver.org/fiction/| EServer Fiction Collection]

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 *[http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms| Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia]
 *[http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/| MediLexicon]
 *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page| MSN Encarta]
 *[http://www.netlingo.com/| NetLingo]

Info Island Main resources - Revision history

Lilly: /* Calendars & Calculators */

FranklinAmerica: removed a character ( | ) that created a bad URL. see: www.digialbookindex.org

Cindiann: added link to Library of Congress

Cindiann: current resources linked from Info Island Main library