Reference Desk

ELibrary / ProQuest
thousands of magazines, news transcripts, journals, maps, photos, etc.

Grolier Encyclopedias Online

Lands & Peoples
countries, cultures and current events
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Gateways to Reference

Awesome Library
for teachers, students and parents

Bartleby.com

Infoplease Almanac
information vital for homework plus fun facts and trivia

Internet Public Library Ready Reference

Librarian's Index to the Internet

Librarian's Index to the Internet for Washington State

Refdesk
link to over 50 encyclopedias

Research it!
dictionaries, thesaurus, biographical dictionaries, Bartlett's quotes, language converters, money converters and more

Virtual Reference Desk
Learning Center - register to use "Ask A ?"

 

News

Tri-City Herald Online

The Spokesman-Review

The Seattle Times

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The Oregonian

CBS News

CNN Online News

FOX News Online

New York Times Student News
Gr. 6-12

The New York Times
On the Web Free registration required.

Scholastic News for Kids

Washington Post

 

 

 

General Reference

American Factfinder
(US Census Bureau) - a data access and dissemination system that provides facts about your community, your economy, and your society.

American Sign Language
tools to help novices and experts alike to become proficient at fingerspelling plus a standard dictionary of the basic fingershapes

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
This online version is searchable two different ways: by inserting words from the quote, or by clicking on the name of an author to see what s/he said that was quotable

Biographies
relating to U.S. History

Biography
A&E''s site with over 15,000 famous people

Biography.Com
information on over 25,000 people

Currency Converter
calculates the amount and converts currencies

Federal Gateway
the one-stop resource for all government branches, agencies, and departments

Hispanic People & Events

Lives, the Biography Resource

Pitsco's "Ask An Expert"

Who's Who in the Federal Government

Dictionary.com
an English dictionary and much more, including foreign language dictionaries, a translator for words or phrases in French, German, Italian, Portugese, and Spanish; a thesaurus; a daily puzzle; and specialty dictionaries – medical, scientific, biographical, etymological, and a pronunciation dictionary

Merriam Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus Online anything dealing with words -the dictionary and thesaurus, word of the day, word games, and more

Multi-language Online Dictionary
Type your word in the blank to access definitions on-line in English.
Scroll down further to access foreign language dictionaries.

The Visual Thesaurus
a highly interactive tool for working with words

YourDictionary.com
This one gives much beyond the basics, including foreign language translation.

Translation Sites

Babel Fish

FreeTranslation.com