Auto Repair
- Chilton’s Auto Repair: Quick online access to repair, maintenance and service information on the most popular cars, trucks, vans and SUVs on the road today.
Biographies
Business
Dictionary
Computer
- Computer Database: news & reviews of hardware, software, electronics, engineering, communication and technology applications.
- Clipart - Open Clip Art Library: This is an open source and free: Openclipart.org
- Computer Tutorial: Inpics.net - This is a tutorial based on pictures not just word:
Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word, Base, Calc, Impress, Writer, HTML, CSS, MySQL Basics, PHP Basics, Perl Basics
- Create Your Own Webpage
- Free Desk Top Publishing Software: (like Microsoft Publisher): PagePlus SE - free desktop publishing with some templates and other options. (NOTE: Do not fownload this software to your computer if you have Microsoft Publisher installed on your computer!).
English / Literature
- Farmers Almanac (for the current year) – lots of information on calendars, definition or word for the day, home, weather, gardening, astronomy (tides, moon, surnrise etc.) food, advice, community, gardening
- The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - see a much longer list of helps under Shakespeare below!
- Classic Novels
- NoveList: Find more to read based on what you already know and like.
- Literature Resource Center: covering over 130,000 writers – Searches “Persons” Country; Searches “Works” (type – like art, fiction, folktale, classics graphic novels, diaries, biographies) and between 20th Century B.C to 21st Century AD.; Basic and Adavnced searches available too.
- Map of Kansas Literature – This site provides biographical information, samples of poems, a list of their works and any websites linked to their name. Simply click on the city of your choice and the famous authors can be found. Then simply click on the authors name or picture and the information about the person will be displayed. A listing of the cities is also found to the right of the screen; which may also be used. Scroll down and find all the pictures of the authors and their names and find the information easily this way as well
- Project Guttenberg: Free Books Online: Project Gutenberg is the brainchild of Michael Hart, who in 1971 decided that it would be a really good idea if lots of famous and important texts were freely available to everyone in the world.
- Kansas Poets and Poetry – A resource for Kansas Poetry (http://www.kansaspoets.com) – It provides a page to share biographical information about Kansas Poets and Kansas Poetry: http://www.kansaspoets.com
Health
Kansas State History and Current Informaton
Government Information
Law
- Lexis One, Lexis-Nexis has a stripped-down free site, available for the public, this case law is available all States (inluding Kansas), Federal jurisdictions for the last ten years, as well as all United States Supreme Court cases. The address is: http://law.lexisnexis.com/webcenters/lexisone/
Library Information.
Math
Newspapers
- Custom Newspapers: full text from over 150 worldwide newspapers: Has basic search, advanced search, magazine/journal search capabilities and subject search guide.
- Newspaper Source: Cover-to-cover full text for 35 U.S. and international newspapers: Has basic search, advanced search, magazine/journal search capabilities and subject search guide.
Online Databases for Research
- General OneFile: covers all academic areas, full text: Has basic search, advanced search, magazine/journal search capabilities and subject search guide.
- Expanded Academic ASAP, 1980-present: covers all academic areas, full text: Has basic search, advanced search, magazine/journal search capabilities and subject search guide.
- Academic OneFile: Science, Technology and Medicine, the humanities and more. For academics and students, undergraduate and postgraduate - Has basic search, advanced search, magazine/journal search capabilities and subject search guide: http://find.galegroup.com/itx/start.do?prodId=AONE&userGroupName=klnb_kanstlib
- ERIC: Educational Resource Information Center provides access to education literature and resources – Excellent resources can be found here.
Research
Sports .
US Government
- Library of Congress - Historical site for US materials - for families
- THOMAS - A USA government online website that can be searched for current and past Senate and house bills and resolutions, Supreme Court information, treaties and even the Presidents calendar and writings. It also has information on the U.S Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Legislative processes. Law library webcasts can also be watched
Shakespeare Helps
Shakespeare Online: http://www.shakespeare-online.com/
Shakespeare Works: http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/works.htm
No Sweat Shakespeare: http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/
Characters: http://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/characters.htm
Absolute Shakespearke: http://absoluteshakespeare.com/index.htm
Sonnets: http://absoluteshakespeare.com/sonnets/sonnets.htm
Shakespeare’s Biography: http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/Springfield/eliz/ShakespeareBiog.html
The Comedies
Complete Text of Twelfth Night
Complete Text of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Complete Text of Much Ado About Nothing
Complete Text of The Tempest
Complete Text of Winter’s Tale
The Histories
Complete Text of King John
Complete Text of Henry IV, Part 1
Complete Text of Henry IV, Part 2
Complete Text of Henry V
Poetry
Complete Text of The Sonnets
Complete Text of A Lover’s Complaint
Complete Text of The Rape of Lucrece
Complete Text of Venus and Adonis
The Tragedies
Complete Text of King Lear
Complete Text of Hamlet
Complete Text of Othello
Complete Text of Macbeth
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