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Contents 1 Almanacs 2 Career Summaries 3 City Explorations 4 Conversions/Computations 5 Credit Reports (Free) 6 Dictionaries & Thesauri 7 Encyclopedias 8 Fiction Reader's Advisory 9 General Reference 10 Internet 11 Language Learning & Translation 12 Local Reference 13 Movie Critiques 14 National, State, County, & Municipal Codes 15 Online Books 16 Public Libraries 17 Statistics for Nation and State 18 Stock Quotes (Historical) 19 Subject Lists (Internet Directories) 20 Tax ID information 21 Vital Records 22 Voter Information

Almanacs

Infoplease Almanac

Old Farmer's Almanac

Career Summaries

Braintrack

SJCPL Databases: Careers Internet Database

SJCPL Databases: Ferguson Career Guidance Center

Occupational Outlook Handbook Online

O*NET Online

City Explorations

Yelp

Conversions/Computations

WolframAlpha

Credit Reports (Free)

Annualcreditreport.com

Dictionaries & Thesauri

Cambridge Dictionaries Online

MedicineNet.com Medical Dictionary

Merriam-Webster English Dictionary and Thesaurus

Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary

OneLook Dictionary & Reverse Dictionary

Roget's International Thesaurus

Thesaurus.com

Encyclopedias

Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Ethnologue: Encyclopedia of Languages

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Wikipedia

Fiction Reader's Advisory

Fantastic Fiction

FictFact

For more information for fiction readers, please see the Reader's Advisory information on our Magazines, Newspapers and Fiction Department's page.

General Reference

Bartleby's Full-text Reference Works

Biographical Directory of U.S. Congress

Nation Master: Comparing Nations

On This Day in History...

Public Library of Law (Beta)

Quotations

This Day in History

Internet

Criteria for Evaluating Websites

Domain Name Owners

Wayback Machine: Internet Archive

Language Learning & Translation

Please see the Language subject guide for online language learning resources.

Local Reference

City of South Bend

Make a Difference Michiana (Local Non-Profit Organizations)

South Bend On (Local Economic Development Information)

St. Joseph County Property Taxes Online Payment

St. Joseph County Sheriff's Sales

United Religious Community of St. Joseph County, Indiana

Movie Critiques

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Rotten Tomatoes

National, State, County, & Municipal Codes

Contact County Offices for County Code Information

Indiana Codes Online (Ex. Building, Residential, Electrical)

Indiana Legislative Code Online

National Electrical Code Online (Must Register w/ the NFPA)

South Bend Municipal Code Online

Online Books

Google Books

Hathitrust

Online Books from the University of Pennsylvania

OverDrive

Project Gutenberg

Public Libraries

Public Libraries.com

Public library locator

Statistics for Nation and State

Census Township Finder

Federal MapStats

Indiana Prisoner Statistics

Kids Count Data Center

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Stats Indiana

Uniform Crime Reports Crime statistics from the FBI

Stock Quotes (Historical)

Big Charts

Yahoo Finance

Subject Lists (Internet Directories)

DMOZ

Internet Public Library

Virtual Library

Tax ID information

MelissaData tax ID lookups

Vital Records

Vital Records for each state from the Center for Disease Control

Voter Information

Indiana Statewide Voter Registration Register to vote or find your polling place

On the Issues