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General Collections and Virtual Reference Desks

Digital Librarian
A librarian's choice of the best of the Web (maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York)

Fugitive Fact File
Use the Fugitive Fact File, compiled by the Hennepin County Library near Minneapolis, to retrieve hard-to-find and miscellaneous information. Links to related Web sites are included.

Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
"The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others."

Internet Public Library(IPL)
The Internet Public Library, a project of the School of Information at the University of Michigan, exists to provide services and information which enhance the value of the Internet to its ever-expanding and varied community of users.

itools: Quick Access to the Best Internet Tools
Includes Search Tools, Language Tools, Research Tools, Financial Tools, Map Tools, and Internet Tools for networking, etc.

Librarians' Index to the Internet
A program of The Library of California; a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 11,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians.

Librarians' Resource Centre
Affiliated with the Special Libraries Association, Toronto Chapter.

Online Reference Resources
Compiled by Penn State University librarians, this site lists reference sources by broad general categories.

Purdue University Libraries Quick Reference
These internet sites provide links of a general nature for quick reference.

Refdesk.com
Refdesk's database is on three levels: quick, studied and deep. For thumbnail snapshots: FastFacts 2001, Quick Reference / Research, and Facts Subject Index. For a more studied approach: Newspapers - USA & Worldwide, Search Engine Resources, Internet Help, and Writing Web Documents. For an in-depth exploration: Facts Encyclopedia with over seventy volumes of indexed subjects and Facts Subject Index with twenty-four subject categories"--webmaster Bob Drudge.

Virtual Gumshoe: Investigative Resources Available on the Web
Formerly Webgator.org, it lists such categories as Adoption Resources, Alumni, Archives, Area Codes & Zip Codes, Associations, Attorneys, etc.)

Virtual Reference Shelf
Selected Web resources compiled by the Library of Congress. Includes the Internet Public Library, Librarian’s Index to the Internet, and Refdesk.com, as well as a classified directory of links.