Calendars Dictionaries and Encyclopedias  Directories
Style Guides History Maps Multicultural   Time Translations

BookPage Monthly book review with a mix of author interviews and reviews focusing on the month's noteworthy new releases.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas Studies of selected pivotal ideas.
The Digital Librarian A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web
Directory of Open Access Journals Categorized, searchable links to free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
FindArticles Contains articles from the back issues of over 900 magazines, journals, trade publications and newspapers.
FindSounds.com Search engine for finding sound effects and samples.
Geography Network
Invisible-web Contains worthy information from reliable sources that are not visible to general purpose search engines.
Martindale's The Reference Desk Provides a wealth of reference information on numerous subjects, especially science.
Quotes Place
Searchsystems.net This site is a searchable directory of more than 11,000 free public record databases.

Calendars

Ancient Calendars Extensive illustrated resource documents a number of ancient calendars and major advances in timekeeping.

Virtual Perpetual Calendars

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Britannica Web site, plus related books, selections from leading magazines, and the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus This on-line dictionary includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate® Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections of that book.

Onelook Dictionaries Search for online-dictionary web sites with the word.

Thesaurus.com Online version of the thesaurus of English words and phrases.

Webster Dictionary Online Includes online versions of the collegiate dictionary and thesaurus.

Wikipedia Free, open content, community-built encyclopedia with thousands of articles on topics from Ato Z.

Directories

Infoplease Provides easy-to-use reference materials on just about every subject, with millions of facts, plus definitions, articles, photographs, maps, lists, and tables.

Switchboard Find white and yellow page entries.

Telephone Directories on the Web- comprehensive current index of telephone books, yellow pages, white pages, fax, residential and business listings, alphabetic and classified directories from all around the world.

Style Guides

Bibliography Style Handbook Bibliography MLA Style for authors, books, periodicals and other sources.

History

Map Collections: 1500-2003 From the Geography and Map division, Library of Congress.

Maps

 

Google Maps

MapMachine-National Geographic Find nearly any place on Earth, and view it by population, climate, and much more. Plus, browse antique maps, find country facts, or plan your next outdoor adventure with our trail maps.

Mapquest interactive maps for cities and towns worldwide. Provides driving directions and a road trip planner.

MapsOnUs

Rand McNally Maps

Yahoo! Maps

Multicultural

New Americans Library Support Network Concentrates on information of interest to New Americans (and professionals serving them), specifically groups speaking languages other than English at home.

SOL (Spanish In Our Libraries) offers library application forms, brochures, programming suggestions, signage, press releases and news articles that can adhere to multi-cultural library communities.
WorldLinq Provides free electronic multilingual information resources developed by the Queens Borough Public Library.

 

Time

The Official U.S Time

Time and Date Find the calendar date of any year.

World Clock Simultaneously shows current local times all over the world, adjusted for timezone and DST. Includes meeting planner.

Translators

Babel Fish Translate phrases and paragraphs from one language to another.
From Language to Language English, French, Russian, Italian, German, Turkish, Spanish language dictionary.
Google Language Tools Search specific languages or countries.