| • | Acronym Finder |
| | Find over 169,000 acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms, and definitions about all subjects, including information technology, business, telecommunications, military, and government. |
| • | AltaVista Translator |
| | Translate phrases, sentences, and whole web pages to/from French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. |
| • | Bartleby.com |
| | Use individual or combined searches of ten famous reference works, including Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, Roget’s II Thesaurus, the Columbia Encyclopedia, and the Oxford Shakespeare. |
| • | Concise Dictionary of First Names |
| | Find the meaning of over 6,000 names from Aaron to Zola. |
| • | Farmer’s Almanac |
| | Make use of this American tradition and find entertaining stories, recipes, facts, forecasts, timely household tips, and calendars for fishing and gardening. |
| • | FedStats |
| | Access the full range of official statistical information available to the public from more than 100 Federal agencies. |
| • | Infoplease |
| | Find millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics: ten almanacs to search, including the United States, the world, entertainment, biography, and sports. |
| • | Internet Archive |
| | Find a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The Wayback Machine makes it possible to surf more than 10 billion pages stored in the Internet Archive’s web archive. |
| • | ipl2 |
| | Find a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 8,600 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. (Formerly the Internet Public Library and Librarians’ Internet Index.) |
| • | Live 24/7 Reference Chat |
| | Instant message with a librarian to get answers to your questions any time of the day or night. This service is staffed by librarians all over the country. |
| • | NARA - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration |
| | Find documents, maps, photos and other materials of legal and historical significance to the U. S. Federal government. Research information on family history and military service records. |
 | RefDesk |
| Find the information you need at this "Fact Checker for the Internet" website. |
| • | SpellCheck |
| | Utilize this tool that includes more than just a spelling feature: a Math Converter for a wide variety of measurement units (including kitchen measurements), a Language translantion feature, a thesaurus, and other reference tools. |
| • | Statistical Abstract of the United States |
| | Find a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. |
| • | Terminology Dictionaries |
| | Locate Several hundred dictionaries in various categories (slang, technical, medical, etc.) with a one-look feature. |
| • | Tutor.com Learning Suite |
| | Get help with homework from Kindergarten through early college from a live tutor from 2pm-10pm every day. Get a document, such as a resume, reviewed by an English tutor. Use the SkillsCenter Resource Library 24/7. |
| • | Western Soundscape Archive |
| | Hear the sounds made by mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and insects from eleven western states. Listen to ambient sounds from an area and interviews with scientists and other experts. |
