NAPL Reference and Research Resources
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Online Resources
NAPL Reference and Research Resources
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Online Resources
| Berkshire Eagle | Local daily newspaper |
| MassMoca | Museum of Contemporary Art |
| The Transcript | Local daily newspaper |
| North Adams.com | Information about North Adams |
| N. Berkshire Adult Basic Education | Adult basic education |
| Steeples | Joe Manning's music and news |
| City Contacts | North Adams information |
| MCLA | Distance learning |
| Postcards of North Adams | Buildings, Schools, etc. |
| North Adams Schools | History of |
| Computer Labs Web Page | North Adams Public Schools Educational Sites |
| AccessScience | The online encyclopedia of science & technology |
| American Memory Collection | Search for maps, music, photographs of North Adams, etc. |
| Area Code Look-up | Area codes in the United States, Canada, and some additional countries. |
| Flags of All Countries | Images of flags around the world, including ceremonial, city, county and other flags. |
| The Internet Movie Database | This site has information on more than 250,000 movies. |
| Library Spot | Includes almanas, encylopedias, Library of Congress, etc. |
| Librarian's Index to the Internet | Excellent listing of resources |
| Quotations Reference | Links to Bartlett's Quotations, etc. |
| Tax forms | Federal and all State tax forms |
| 10,000 year Calendar! | Use the search form and display a month or year calendar for any year |
| Zip Code Look-up | U.S. Postal Service |
| Car and Driver | The daily automobile insider. |
| Edmunds Autombiles Buying Guide | Prices on new and used cars and trucks. |
| Kelly's Blue Book | New and used car and motocycle prices/ |
| N.A.D.A. Official Used Car Guide | Find a car value or a dealer. |
| Merriam-Webster 10th Collegiate Dictionary | Definitions and correct spellings or use the thesaurus to find synonyms. |
| Funk and Wagnalls.com | Requires (FREE) registration |
| One-look Dictionary | Indexes more than 250 online dictionaries, glossaries and acronym and abbreviation finders |
| Webster's Unabridged (1913) | A fast look up in a headword index |
| Brittanica online | The world's best Web sites, plus related books, selections from leading magazines, and the complete Encyclopædia Britannica. |
| Encarta online | Streamlined version of the popular CD-ROM encyclopedia |
| FinAid | "The Financial Aid Information Page." Collection of information about student financial aid |
| Student Financial Assistance | From the U.S. Dept. of Education, this site offers information about grants, loans, work-study, and tax credits for education and how to apply for them. |
| College Board | College Board is a full service website for learning about the various colleges that might suit you, keeping track of testing dates and application deadlines, and generally organizing your college search and application process. There also are some links to financial aid resources. |
| Princeton Review | Another highly respected site that offers guidance and assistance to all the steps of searching for and applying to colleges that suit your needs. |
| Peterson's | This site is one of the most comprehensive resources for finding out information about the colleges that may interest you. For decades, Peterson has published the definitive guides to colleges, and now nearly all that information is available online. The North Adams Public Library does have the printed guides avaialable at the library as well. |
| Geographic Names | National Mapping Information |
| U.S. Gazetter | You can search for places, counties or MCDs by entering the name and state abbreviation (optional), or 5-digit zip code. |
| World Holidays and Festivals | Lists holidays around the world and allows searching for moveable holidays (such as Easter). |
| This Day in History | Fast facts about today's date in history, including famous birthdays. Want to find out what happened on your birthday? |
| The Paperboy 2000 | Newspapers by country |
| My Virtual Newspaper | Index of online newspapers throughout world |
| Alta Vista | Search a large database by keywords or natural language, or perform a complex Boolean search. AltaVista offers a Simple, Power Search and Advanced Search interface with numerous searchable fields. Alta Vista was created by librarians. |
| Excite | When you want to search an index with Boolean logic, or keywords, or take advantage of Excite's concept searching when you want to explore an aspect of your topic retrieved with your search results. The search engine also retrieves directory information for certain topics. |
| Uses sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. By default, Google only returns those pages that include all of your search terms. There is no need to include "and" between terms. | |
| Lycos | Features directory results with the option to retrieve results from the spider-crawled Web. |
| Metacrawler | Searches the major search engines. Searches web pages, directory listings, audio files, newsgroups or auctions. |
| Yah oo | Provides users with access to a rich collection of on-line resources, including, various communications tools, online forums, shopping services, personalized content and branded programming. |
| BigFoot | This e-mail and phone directory currently boasts over 110 million names. |
| Switchboard: Find a Person | Search this electronic operator for that residential phone number. |
| Yahoo People Search | Telephone/Address |
| Greenwich Mean Time | Time information |
| The World Clock | Current local times around the world |