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- Access-Able Travel Source – information and resources for mature and travelers with special needs
- Accessible Journeys – Accessible Travel Planning, Group Tours, Group Cruises, Individual Accessible Cruises, Licensed Travel Companions, and Disability Travel Resources
- Switchboard – A digital directory to businesses, people, maps and directions, phone numbers and zip codes.
- Atta texana: An Underground View of an Ant Colony Old time ant colonies inspired the engrossing research going on at Texas A &M University. The have created a 3D model allowing you a very unique view into the lives of atta texana, which happen to be a species of leafcutting ants. First take a look at the “Slide show” section and then take a look at both the tunnel animation and the immersive system video.
- North American Breeding Bird Survey – bird monitoring program to track the status and trends of North American bird populations.
- 101 Free things to do in Arkansas - Some of the best things in life are free and they’re in Arkansas. The Natural State has unique events and locations that can be enjoyed for nothing but the time it takes to get there.
- Arkansas Official State Page - On-line introduction providing directory to government offices, services, educational facilities, community offices, tourism, business
- Things to Do in Arkansas - Arkansas annually attracts visitors from across the nation and abroad. Many are drawn to its abundant opportunities for outdoor adventures and to its natural beauty, as seen in the state’s waterfalls, tour caverns and wild caving experiences, forested mountain trails and scenic drives. Some come to dig for keeper diamonds and quartz crystals.
- Astronomy Picture of the Day – Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
- Edmunds – Provides pricing, unbiased car reviews, ratings, and expert advice.
- Kelly Blue Book – New car pricing, used car values, with ratings and reviews.
- NADA - Includes autos, classic cars, motorcycles, boats, recreational vehicles and manufactured homes.
- AddALL Book Search and Price Comparison – Search and Compare among 40+ sites, 20,000 sellers, millions of books.
- Booklist Online – highly searchable and creatively linked reviews, columns, and features-all designed to help users find exactly the right book
- BookLovers – Useful places on the net on writers and poets, on libraries, publishers and booksellers, both of new and second hand/antiquarian books.
- BookPage – online edition of BookPage
- BookWire – An online portal into the book industry, to provide librarians, publishers, booksellers, authors, and general book enthusiasts with the resources they need.
- Historical Text Archive – High quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects.
- Litrix Reading Room – Read the Classics Online.
- Online Books Page – Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web.
- Project Guttenberg – The Internet’s oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts)
- World Wide Study Bible - Full Text Bible
- Arkansas Quick Facts – Includes County and City facts
- U.S. Census Bureau – Source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data
- US Census Bureau Economic Indicators – the most recent data on manufacturing and trade inventories in the U.S., along with retail and food service sales, international trade in goods and services, and data on new home sales.
- Learn the Net – A website dedicated to helping you master the Internet
- Better Business Bureau – BBB reports provide information on over 2.5 million organizations. You can also file a complaint and find a local bureau.
- Consumer Information Center – Federal Citizen Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, Colorado
- Consumer World – A public service, non-commercial guide with over 2000 of the most useful consumer resources
- Insure – Consumer insurance guide
- ACT – Official site of the American College Testing program
- Best Colleges – Ranking of colleges and universities provided by U.S. News Online
- College Results Online – Overall graduation rate and changes over time
- Colleges, College Scholarships and Financial Aid Page – Easy access to information on colleges and universities throughout the United States and more
- Law in Popular Culture Collection – works of fiction in all genres, as well as legal humor, plays, comics, pulp magazines, and feature films on video of the image of the lawyer in the United States and British Commonwealth
- West Side Story -celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of West Side Story
- Bureau of Labor Statistics – The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.
- College Board – Information on planning for college, finding a college, applying for and paying for college
- FAFSA on the Web – Complete your application online
- FastWeb – An extensive college directory of more than 4000 schools with information on admissions, financial aid and general information. Free but you have to register
- FinAid – Comprehensive annotated collection of information about student financial aid on the web
- Student Guide – Tells about financial aid programs and how to use them
- Xap – Planning timelines, test prep tools and financial aid information
- How To Go Organic – online collection of existing resources for anyone exploring how to transition to organic.
- FedWorld – Department of Commerce site that makes it easy to locate Government Information
- Government Information Online - a free national online information service, participating librarians specialize in finding government information sources of all kinds, and will try to answer your questions through chat or email.
- U.S. Government Manual – Provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.
- AMA Doctor Finder – DoctorFinder provides you with basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States. This includes more than 690,000 doctors.
- CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services
- CDC Traveler’s Health – travel health information for over 90 countries.
- Clinical Trials Listing Service – the information source for the clinical trials industry
- Health A to Z – in-depth content on nearly any medical condition that concerns you.
- HealthFinder – guide to reliable health information sponsored by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
- USDA Food and Nutrition Information Center – credible, accurate, and practical nutrition information
- Ellis Island Immigration Museum – National Park Service preserves the monument
- Find a Grave – Find the graves of ancestors and see the graves of thousands of famous people from around the world.
- Inventor of the Week – dedicated to honoring the acclaimed and unsung heroes who have helped improve our lives through invention
- King Center – the official memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- National Geographic Online – History, maps, photography, travel and more
- National Park Service – History and culture, parks and recreation, nature and science, interpretation and education
- National Trust for Historic Preservation – Provides leadership, education, advocacy and resources to preserve, improve and enjoy historic places
- Political Graveyard – Comprehensive Source of U.S. Political Biography
- Thomas Jefferson’s Library – selected images from works in Thomas Jefferson’s book collection.
- Victory Mail Online Exhibit – V-Mail operated during WWII in order to expedite mail service for American armed forces overseas. The site provides several sections “Introducing V-mail”, “Operating V-Mail”, “Using V-Mail”,”Letter writing in WWII”, and “References”.
- Virtual Jamestown – digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and “the Virginia experiment.”
- Federal Income Tax Home Page – Tax forms, refunds and other tax related information
- Federal Tax Forms - the official source of IRS tax products
- Arkansas Income Tax Home Page – tax forms and assistance for taxpayers and process tax returns and reports
- Other State Tax Forms – Clickable map to state tax form sites or to state Internet filing sites
These job links are under construction
- The Beehive: Jobs & Careers - Help with unemployment benefits, finding a job and building your resume
- Best Jobs in Government - Search by occupation and job type
- CareerOneStop - Tools to help job seekers, students, businesses, and career professionals. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor
- JobStar - Resumes and cover letters
- Job Web - career and job-search advice for new college graduates. A service of the National Association of Colleges and Employers
- My Future - resume builder
- Occupation Outlook Handbook - For hundreds of different types of jobs: the training and education needed, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, working conditions, and also gives you job search tips, links to information about the job market in each State, and more
- Riley Guide - Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet
- WorkSmart! - designed to help you prepare for and find a new job
- Smithsonian Institution – online resources from the Smithsonian
- United State Holocaust Memorial Museum – America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history
- William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum – official NARA website of the Clinton Library
- Chicago Tribune - Founded in 1847, this Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper has a daily readership of 1.7 million and 2.7 million on Sunday.
- Indianz – provides quality news, information, and entertainment from a Native American perspective
- New York Times – provides high-quality news and information
- American Experience Influenza 1918 – PBS series with features that include, maps, timelines, and people and events
- Ebsco Pandemic H1N1 - latest evidence-based flu-related information available. This free flu information resource, located at Influenza Free evidence Based Information Portal, will provide continually updated, evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed™ and Nursing Reference Center™, EBSCO’s clinical and nursing point-of-care databases, along with patient education information in 17 languages from Patient Education Reference Center™. Please visit this site often for the latest information.
- NPR: Bird Flu in Depth – Focused in depth reports on Pandemic
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention: H1N1 Flu [pdf] – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created this site to help the general public learn about the H1N1 flu.
Cartography 2.0 - “free knowledge base and e-textbook for students and professionals interested in interactive and animated maps.”
Cartography 2.0 - “free knowledge base and e-textbook for students and professionals interested in interactive and animated maps.”
Storynory: Free Audio Stories for Kids – Listen to holiday stories. Storynory is an online treasure trove of audio stories. Here you will find a mixture of new stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories and also a sprinkling of verse.
- National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza – White House plan for dealing with a pandemic
- Pandemic Flu – Department of Health and Human Services one-stop access to U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information
- Pandemic Flu British Department of Health – The contingency plan, information and resources for health professionals and the public on pandemic flu
- United States Department of Health and Human Services – a blueprint for pandemic influenza preparation and response
- World Health Organization Pandemic Preparedness – Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response including a checklist for influenza pandemic preparedness planning
- Charlotte’s Web for Parents – helpful information regarding child development
- Great Web Sites for Kids – American Library Association site with the Association for Library Service for Children with sites on many topics
- Kid’s Health – the largest and most-visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence, a service of the Nemours Foundation
- Net Mom’s Internet Safe House – a family friendly site with articles, reviews of sites, games and a newsletter by Jean Armour Polly, librarian and author of Internet Kids and Family Yellow Pages
- Our Kids – devoted to raising special kids with special needs
- Parent Smart – articles to help your child succeed in school
- Safe Kids – family guide to making the Internet and Technology fun, safe and productive
- American Kennel Club – Advance the study, breeding, exhibiting, running and maintenance of purebred dogs.
- American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals – founded in 1866 as the first humane organization in the Western Hemisphere
- Pet Food Recall Information – FDA site with information about the recall and brands that are being recalled
- PetFinder – Search 214,012 adoptable pets
- US Consumer Product Safety Commission - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction.
- Center for Science in the Public Interest – CSPI has long sought to educate the public, advocate government policies that are consistent with scientific evidence on health and environmental issues, and counter industry’s powerful influence on public opinion and public policies
- KARV – 610am
- KCAB – 980AM
- KCJC – 102.3FM
- KMTC – 91.1FM
- KVLD – 99.3FM
- KWKK – 100.9FM
- KWXT – 1490 AM
- KXRJ – 91.9FM – Arkansas Tech
- Recipezaar – recipes in every category
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian – helps answer frequently asked questions about the Smithsonian with links to resources on subjects from Art to Zoology
- lanic – Latin American Network Information Center
- Atkins School District- information from elementary to high school
- Dover Public Schools - information from primary to high school
- Hector School District – general information and current events
- Pottsville Area School District – information from elementary to high school
- Russellville Public Schools – news and information from elementary to high school
- KARK – Channel 4, NBC
- KASN – Channel 38,UPN
- KATV – Channel 7, ABC
- KETS – Channel 2, PBS
- KLRT – Channel 16, Fox
- KTHV – Channel 11, CBS
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – leads international efforts to defeat hunger
- Arkansas State University -
- Arkansas Tech University
- Central Baptist College
- Harding University
- Henderson State University
- Hendrix College
- John Brown University
- Lyon College
- Ouachita Baptist University
- Philander Smith College
- Southern Arkansas University
- University of Arkansas – Fayetteville
- University of Arkansas – Little Rock
- University of Arkansas – Medical Sciences
- University of Arkansas – Monticello
- University of Arkansas – Pine Bluff
- University of Central Arkansas
- University of the Ozarks
- Williams Baptist College
- Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana – sheet music, broadsides, prints, cartoons, maps, drawings, and campaign tickets related to Lincoln’s life and times.
- The Allure of the Automobile - an online video, 18 examples of cars from the Golden Age of automaking, and the “Exhibition Highlight”, where visitors can begin to “understand the breadth of automotive design from start to finish, from the inside out.”
- A Chef’s Table [Real Player, iTunes] – The website for Chef Jim Coleman’s show, A Chef’s Table, offers podcasts of his WHYY show. The written content of the website expands on the radio show, and also lists the books that are featured on the week’s show. In the middle of the homepage there is a featured recipe of the week, and on the menu on the left side of the page can be found “Recipes” from past shows, “Cooking Tips”, “Cookbook Reviews”, and “Archives”. The archives contain one show per week, and are available from November 2008 to the present. Finally, for visitors who just can’t get enough of Julia Child, full episodes of her show The French Chef are available on the homepage of WHYY, and the August 1, 2009 show of A Chef’s Table is about all things Julia.
- American English Dialect Recordings [iTunes, Real Player] - The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) Collection features approximately 118 hours of recordings documenting North American English dialects. These recordings were made from 1941 to 1984, and they reveal “distinctions in speech related to gender, race, social class, education, age, literacy, ethnic background, and occupational group.”
- Storynory: Free Audio Stories for Kids – Listen to holiday stories. Storynory is an online treasure trove of audio stories. Here you will find a mixture of new stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories and also a sprinkling of verse.
- Cartography 2.0 - “free knowledge base and e-textbook for students and professionals interested in interactive and animated maps.
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention: H1N1 Flu [pdf] – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has created this site to help the general public learn about the H1N1 flu.
- The Crash of 1929 – The PBS program “American Experience” created this online site to complement their recent documentary exploring the stock market crash of 1929.
- The garden helper - Over 100,000 pages of gardening information and plant growing help
- GreenHomeGuide – how to create green information regarding countertops, bathrooms, landscaping, stone & tile coverings, flooring and more.
- Podcasts: Freer and Sackler Galleries [iTunes] – There are two types of audio features in the “Podcasts” section of the website. First, visitors will find a brief description of “Radio Asia”, which streams entire tracks from the Smithsonian Folkways collection of Asian music. Next, the numerous and diverse podcasts are available, which are divided up into the categories of “Concerts”, “Storytelling”, and “Curatorial Conversations”. Additionally, most podcasts have the following links “See Photos of This Performance” and “Read More About This Performance”. Some even have a link to related artwork from the Smithsonian collections. Indo-European Languages Tutorials [iTunes] – basic language tutorials in French, Italian, German, and a number of other languages.
- National Geographic: Blue Whales – An in-depth look into the recovery of the blue whale population off the coast of Costa Rica.
- National Science Foundation: Science Nation [Flash Player] - Billed as “The Online Magazine That’s All About Science for the People”, the online magazine Science Nation reports on important science breakthroughs.
- Nettleton Civil War Letters at the Electronic Text Center - The correspondence is between Charles N. Tenney, a Union soldier from Ohio, and Adelaide E. Case, a friend from the small town of Mecca, Ohio.
- On the Edge: The Hidden Art of Fore-Edge Book Painting – When books were horizontally and with the fore-edge facing out, artists began to paint the fore-edge with scenes of an assortment of subjects. Some artists began painting scenes that could only be seen when the books pages were fanned out, and when they weren’t fanned out, only the gilt on the fore-edge was visible.
- “The Pageant of America” Photograph ArchiveSeveral thousand original and copy photographs; albumen, platinum and silver gelatin prints; 1860s-1920s. The photographs are presented in original archival order: two series, “published” and “unpublished” photographs, exist for each of the fifteen volumes published in the 15-volume series The Pageant of America: A Pictorial History of the United States commemorating the nation’s sesquicentennial in 1926.
- Perkins Geology Museum at the University of Vermont - The Perkins Geology Museum at the University of Vermont has been able to expand their online offerings in recent years. Poets: W.H. Auden – Collection of Auden’s works offered by the Academy of American Poets.
- Pew Research Center: The States of Marriage and Divorce [Flash Player] – Where in the United States do people stay married? Where do some people frequently remarry? These are but a few of the questions that animate this recent study authored by D’Vera Cohn of the Pew Research Center. This report, complete with an interactive map, draws on information from the American Community Survey in order to paint a portrait of the state of marriage across the country.
- Prints from the Curzon Collection: Images of Napoleon and British Fears of Invasion, 1789-1815 - A collection of 1400 prints of political cartoons from the period of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.
- Sanora Babb, Stories from the American High Plains [Flash Player] - Stories about Anglo settlers headed to the High Plains for free land starts this website off with an old recording of a Western song, then click on the picture of the man with the guitar, to be taken to the “Introduction”, which will tell them about the Babb family. The two Babb daughters are highlighted, as they each documented their journey in their own style. Sanora became a novelist and journalist, and wrote about the experience while Dorothy took over 250 photographs of the Dust Bowl refugees.
- Spalding Base Ball Guides, 1889-1939 – Official indoor base ball guides
- The State of the News Media 2010 - This report each year attempts to analyze the major sectors of the news media in depth and to look across those different elements of the news media to see broader trends.
- Storynory: Free Audio Stories for Kids – Listen to holiday stories. Storynory is an online treasure trove of audio stories. Here you will find a mixture of new stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories and also a sprinkling of verse.
- United States Military Academy Digital Library: Maps- maps are divided into three sections: “Civil War Maps”, “Colonial and Federal Era Maps”, and “West Point Maps”.
- What’s in the Food You Eat [pdf]- This database was created by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and it contains nutrient profiles for 13,000 foods commonly eaten in the U.S.
- Where did the Pilgrims really land? Provincetown makes a bid for more recognition. Check out this site for an animated history of the Pilgrims, Pilgrim lore, legend, and history.
- The Writing Center at Harvard University - instructional handouts for writers with over a dozen helpful handouts with titles such as “How to Read an Assignment”, “Essay Structure”, “Developing a Thesis”, “Summary”, and “Revising the Draft”. Each piece is written in clear prose, and the advice offered is sound and practical. Also includes a link to Harvard’s guide to citation and integration of sources, “Writing with Sources”, and a selection of links to other related writing style guides.
- xeno-canto America Community database of shared bird sounds from the Americas. Search through the growing collection, identify or discuss unknown sounds and download freely. Do you like what you see? Share your recordings and knowledge!