Reference Resources

Reference resources

411.com

Contains white pages, yellow pages, reverse phone and address searches, and area and zip code information.


Acronym Finder

A comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.


AnyWho: Find Telephone Number and Address

Contains 90 million white pages listings, 10 million yellow pages listings, reverse phone lookup, international directories, and a toll free number directory.


Bartleby.com

Electronic versions of American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Columbia Encyclopedia, and other online literature.


Bartlett Quotations

Collections of poetry, classic fiction works, nonfiction works, as well as reference works.


Blue Letter Bible

Contains 14 searchable and easily comparable versions of the Holy Bible.


Bureau of Labor Statistics

Detailed career information profiles.


Business Statistics

Business statistics, financial ratios, and more.


Choose to Save Financial Calculators

Budget, savings, paycheck planning, college, business, credit card and automobile calculators.


Citing Sources | Duke University Libraries

Offers resources for some of the most commonly used citation styles.


Common Errors in English Usage

Search for common errors in the English language.


EasyBib

Formats your MLA citations for free.


Elements of Style

William Strunk’s Elements of Style.


Encyclopedia Mythica

An encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend.


Encyclopedia of Chicago

An encyclopedia on the history of Chicago.


Etymology Dictionary

Explanations of what words mean.


Farmer’s Almanac

Weather, gardening, cooking, remedies, managing your household, preserving the earth, and more.


Fugitive Fact File

Use for hard-to-find and elusive information.


FXHistory: Historical Currency Exchange Rates

Rates from 1990.


GetHuman.com

A database of secret phone numbers and codes that immediately get an actual, live person on the line for customer service.


Guide to Grammar and Writing

Definitions of sentence parts, rules for comma usage and other punctuation marks, plurals, possessives, capitalization.


Historical Statistical Abstracts

Editions of the U.S. Census Bureau publication from 1878 to the present.

HomeTownLocator Gazetteer

Profiles for 179,000 cities, towns, neighborhoods and subdivisions.


HowToCallAbroad.com

Country codes and international area codes for calling abroad.


Illinois Department of Public Health Statistics

Vital statistics, population, health indicators, and more.


Information Please

Search the contents of an encyclopedia, atlas, dictionary and both the TIME and ESPN almanacs.


Internet 800 Directory

Search for 800 or 888 phone numbers.


ipl2: information you can trust

A collection of sites sorted into easy-to-use subjects.


Measuring Worth

Compares the value of an amount of money in the past with the present or with another time in the past.


Online Conversion

Cooking, geometry, physics, engineering, or any kind of conversion you need.


PlacesNamed.com

Collection of geographic and other reference information.


PollingReport.com

Trends in American public opinion.


Population Reference Bureau: DataFinder

Contains data on 136 population, health, and environment variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, and the world as a whole.


Quoteland

Browse by author or topic.


State Telephone Directory

Search by name, phone, or agency.


Switchboard

A nationwide residential and business phone directory.


The Ultimates

An integrated site of white, yellow, trip planning and e-mail directories.


U.S. Census Bureau: The Official Statistics

U.S. Census Bureau official site.


Visual Dictionary Online

Access more than 6,000 images and see words visually.


Who2?: Find Famous People Fast

Find anyone famous.


Who’s Alive and Who’s Dead

Which of the noted celebrities of our time are with us, and which ones have passed away.


Wikipedia

Online encyclopedia written collaboratively by its users.


Zap 2 It

Guide to TV, Movies, and the Internet.


Zip Code Boundary Map

Zip code boundaries.

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