Pete's Home Page
PETE'S HOME PAGE
This is Pete Llewellyn's Homepage...
A site full of reference and research tools.
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Last update - March 18, 1999
What's this? Over 1400 specialized search engines? It's getting crazy.
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What's the weather in
PHILADELPHIA?
Interesting European libraries...
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I work at
Community College of Philadelphia,
and am a student in Library Science at Drexel University
If you would like information about either of these fine institutions,
please contact me.
Contact: pllewellyn@ tripod.net
What's the weather in
PHILADELPHIA?
Think about it.
THIS PAGE WILL GIVE INFORMATION AND LINKS TO AND ABOUT:
1. Libraries and related organizations in the Philadelphia area,
and throughout the world. (see below)
2. Links to most
FOUR YEAR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES-
over 3000 entries from all over the world
or
700 COMMUNITY COLLEGE SITES
3. Are you part of a non profit organization looking for
GRANTS?
Go here and check out all these links... (many),
4. Read the
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION online
5. Go to FEDWORLD
for all kinds of government sites, links, etc. etc. etc..
6. Go to OCLC
Search & learn all about libraries. Find news, jobs, research
classification information, a bunch of internet related
things, and some reference tools..
7. Go to THE COPYRIGHT PAGE
Almost everything you need to know about Copyright laws.
8. Find your lost friends on the
SWITCHBOARD
A really big phone book....
9. Find gobs of info at the
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
A really big library...
10. Movie Buff that you are, research almost any film at
THE INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE
A very comprehensive database.
11. Here are good
FINANCIAL AID SITES
to peruse if you
are a college student.. or perspective college student.
12. Here are some excellent
JOB HUNTING SITES
which I have accumulated
which are accessible on the Internet.
13. Here is a site with many links to sites which relate
to J.D. Salinger, one of my favorite authors.
SALINGER STUFF
You can buy some Salinger books right here-
HAPWORTH 16, 1924
THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (the classic)
NINE STORIES (with my favorite story "TO ESME..")
FRANNY & ZOOEY
RAISE HIGH THE ROOFBEAMS & SEYMOUR
14. Looking for a quotation? Search here.
QUOTATIONS
--- or find the lyrics to over 70,000 songs.
LYRICS
--- or find the full text of over 7,000 books.
INTERNET PUBLIC LIBRARY
15.Here you may write to the
PRESIDENT in THE WHITE HOUSE
or one of your SENATORS,
or
one of your
REPRESENTATIVES IN THE
HOUSE
16. Here are some useful links to the government.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LINKS
or try
LINKS TO YET MORE GOVERNMENT SITES
and finally,
the FEDERAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE AND YELLOW PAGES
17. Here are the same kind of links, but for the
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
18. Here's the official
CITY OF PHILADELPHIA GOVERNMENT
PAGE
Here's a good report for parents worried about their kids reading
questionable material on the Internet.
The Parents Guide to the Internet
Find more interesting government
reports, try the Consumer's
Info Center in Pueblo, Colorado.
For an even more thought provoking moment, reload the page in about
30 seconds.
INFORMATION ABOUT SEARCH ENGINES
Learn how they work, and why you need more than one..
Here are the PHILADELPHIA LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA
Excellent resources from Philadelphia...
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES
Everything to do with Natural History
THE ATHENAEUM OF PHILADELPHIA.......Excellent site for
architectural resources.
THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY "The Oldest
learned society in the United States.. over six million manuscripts,
186,000 volumes, lots of scientific artifacts... Founded by Ben Franklin!
THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA (Historical section).......
"...one of America's premier research collections
in the historyof medicine"...
THE COLLEGE OF
PHYSICIANS MODERN LIBRARY...
provides reference and a circulating collection on medicine....
.
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PA LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES...
provides much in the way of local history..also, many public
newspapers, census records, immigration lists..
THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA..
"an independent research library documenting every aspect of the
history and background of American culture...."
THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL LIBRARIANS FORUM...
"information of special interest to librarians
of the School District of Philadelphia"
THE TRI STATE LIBRARY COOPERATIVE...
provides a list of members and info on borrowing
privleges at 33 Philadelphia area libraries..
(this page produced by the Penn State Great Valley library)..."
THIS IS A LINK TO THE LIBERTYNET PAGE WITH LINKS TO OVER 15
SPECIALIZED LIBRARIES IN THE PHILADELPHIA AREA...
VIEW HERE:: Arden Press, Balch Institute,
Charlotte Cushman Theatre,Civil War Library, David Library of the
American Revolution, Delaware County Library System, Haverford Township
Library System, Mount Laurel Library,and the Upper Merion Township
System, and others.
LIBRARY AND
INFORMATION SCIENCE.. links to Associations, Societies,
Publishers, Electronic Journals, vendors and other
Library related resources.. FROM DREXEL UNIVERSITY...
Here are WORLDWIDE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS
PUBLIC LIBRARIES WITH WWW & GOPHER SERVICES...
From the St. Joseph county Public Library..
A list of almost 500 public libraries from around the world, Most
have public access catalogs and other information about the
library.
NATIONAL LIBRARIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Go from Argentina to Venezuela and many countires in between.
WEBCATS
Here's a very comprehensive list of library catalogues from
around the world.
Here are Presidential and Smithsonian Library Collections
PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES..
If you need some specific information about a President
try one these libraries. Presidential Libraries linked here include
Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Johnson, Ford, Reagan, Hoover, Truman, Kennedy,
Nixon and Carter.
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES....
.."for the increase and diffusion of knowledge..."All about
the Smithsonian.
YET MORE VERY GOOD LIBRARY LINKS...
THE DIGITAL LIBRARIAN. ....
..this is a good site if you are looking for something in the
way of subject searching... you can find links to
such subjects as activism, africana, agriculture, animals,
etc..over 100 subjects altogether here..
JENNY'S CYBRARY TO THE STARS..
..a very cool site.. with the Librarians site du jour.
Many other excellent resources for librarians and book lovers.
Definitely worth a look.
GUIDE TO BOOK ARTS AND BOOK HISTORY.
..this is a collection of resources for those interested in
the history of books... bookbinding, papermaking, papyrology,
preservation links, typography and language links.
BIBLIOCITY.. find rare or out of print books
SEARCH FOR BOOKS
Search for more rare books..
SEARCH FOR OUT OF PRINT AND RARE BOOKS
ABC..
Another good site index to educational resources on the
web.
The Internet Public Library
A site which abounds with reference sources and links.
CAROL'S REFERENCE SOURCES
Carol's guide to reference services. A good topically indexed site for:
Business, Art History, Early Mediterranean History and
The Earth
Anne Prestamo's Library Resources...is a great site I use
primarily to research government information and, believe it or not,
CHOCOLATE. The true history of chocolate is
here and well as links to many many government related sites.
Something new-
Here is a very useful site for Government Statistics
Federal Statistics- a very good compilation from the
Federal Government.
Something new and interesting-
Here's a site where the government sells a lot of surplus
things- houses, land, cars, and other things. I know you
read about this and don't believe it, but it's true.
FINANCENET.
Something new and interesting and useful-
Here's a site of ready reference tools.
READY REFERENCE.
On line translation..If you have a foreign word you
don't know try this excellent site.
TRANSLATIONS!
Here you can find hundreds of government acronyms.. very interesting
and informative.
GOVERNMENT ACRONYMS
Here you can find more acronyms.. from Yahoo..
ACRONYM SITES AND SEARCHES
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