Online Resources

News/Weather

CNN.com

MSNBC.com

Newsday.com

NY Times on the Web

NPR - National Public Radio

News 12

PBS Online

The Weather Channel

Yahoo! Weather - for Island Park weather go directly to http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USNY0714.html


 

REFERENCE & Research

Refdesk.com

Nassau Library System Adult and Reference Resources

DeskRef

Citing Sources within Your Paper

Babel Fish at Yahoo! - Provides free online text and web page language translation tools!

Internet Public Library Ready Reference

Wikipedia - The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. Over two million articles and still growing.

Information Please - A free reference site featuring an encyclopedia, almanac, atlas, dictionary, and thesaurus, and more.

United States Postal Service

Library of Congress - The nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress.

Merriam-Webster - Provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources.

The Quotations Page - Features quotes collected by author and subject, discussion forums, quotes of the day, motivational quotes, and random quotes.

Internet Archive - Nonprofit organisation established to preserve Web sites by taking regular "snapshots". The Wayback Machine provides links to older versions of a webpage.

Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century - An interactive timeline of Presidential history, presenting materials drawn from the Presidential Libraries. www.presidentialtimeline.org/