Welcome to the Cybertown Reference Library
Useful reference materials
from all over Cyberspace
Type below to find what you want on the Net! Just type
your question in English or enter words and phrases. To
find two words such as fish AND chips, type +fish +chips.
My Virtual Reference Desk
Intended to be a 'one-stop' site for all things Internet. Includes a comprehensive listing of sites on news, weather, sports, general reference, subject guide (Arts and Culture through Women's Issues), search engines, fun stuff, Windows 95 links, writing WWW documents, top 25 sites, and free stuff. Superb reference site
It!
Great site that includes Find-It! for searching on the Internet, Research-It! for research materials and Promote-It! for promoting your own Web Site
Webster's Hypertext Dictionary
A look-up dictionary where all the words in the definitions are also hyper-linked to definitions
Thesaurus
A searchable Gopher Thesaurus -- enter a word and get its alternates
Search Engines
Most all the search engines you'll ever need. This one is phenomenal -- 100 search engines on one page!
How Far Is It?
Enter two places and the computer will tell you how far apart they are
Net Lingo 
The Internet language dictionary. It comprises hundreds of definitions about the emerging vocabulary
that is surrounding the World Wide Web. Complete with links to
resources, faqs, programs to download, computer companies on the net,
and an interactive message board, it caters to newbies and hackers
alike
Central Source Yellow Pages
Instantly find companies, phone numbers, products, services, brand names & websites
The Information SuperLibrary
Includes everything from bookstores, a reference desk, software library, company overviews, Yellow Pages, Internet starter kit, J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 1996, etc.
Macquarie K*I*D Dictionary
A dictionary that is totally written by kids. It contains words of children and teenagers from all over the world. These are your own words IN your own words. Now you can leave your mark on the world of words forever!
MapQuest
A very easy to use service that allows
you to enter an origin city and a destination city within the 48 contiguous states so you can obtain a good driving route. It's a simple tool to use for planning your next driving trip
BUBL WWW Subject Tree - Alphabetical Arrangement
A subject-based service to the academic and research community
Bartlett Familiar Quotations
Familiar quotations, passages, phrases and proverbs traced to their sources
Who's Who on the Internet
Massive lists of "Internet Personalities" (warning: huge files). Useful "We Want These Pages" feature where you can request that pages you're looking for be found for you
Planet Earth Virtual Library
Search through an enormous list of subjects via a large imagemap
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library
Where you can search through numerous categories from a text-based list
The University of Minnesota Human Rights
Library
The Library has the most important human rights
instruments and many other human rights documents.
CMC Information Sources
Excellent and very large list of information on the Internet including such categories as education, entertainment, government, technology, multimedia, culture, people and books
A list of Virtual Libraries on the Web
The Macmillan Publishing USA Information SuperLibrary (tm)
The home of
Macmillan Digital, and the world's largest computer book publisher, Macmillan Computer
Publishing. Includes Adobe Press, Alpha, Brady, Hayden, New Riders, Que,
Que College, Sams, and Sams.net
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Subscription based
Complete Works of Shakespeare
In all their glory
The J.R.R. Tolkien Information Page
Fabulous collection of Tolkien sites
The On-line Books Page
This is a collection of over 750 on-line books. It also points to some common
repositories of on-line books and other documents
Books AtoZ
Those
interested in books can find information on bookstores,
publishers, self-publishing, printing, book manufacturing,
industry events and jobs, publishing associations, grants for
publishing, music publishing, CD-ROM and multimedia publishing,
and much, much more
Book Stacks
Book Stacks is the web's oldest and best general bookstore
and offers more than
425,000 titles -- most at steep discounts.
NEW TO THE NET?
If you're new to the Net, this will give you lots of useful information to help you understand what it's all about and how to use it. Primarily deals with the Earth Internet.
Smilies
Good guide to emoticons
Windows Shareware Archive
Great collection of Windows programs to download
Jumbo
Around 50,000 PC and Mac freeware and shareware programs to download
Reference Desk
A very large gopher list of such resources as area codes, calendars, Internet assistance, an acronyms directory, recipes, exchange rates, census information, weather information etc. etc. etc.
INFONet Introduction Page
Search aids and navigational utilities to help you find information and resources on many subjects
Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page
