Week of April 6, 2014 - Library and General Reference Websites

By Joan WHetzel

I have found a few websites that are great for locating the odd facts and general information that you may not be able to find elsewhere.

American Fact Finder

http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml
American Fact Finder lists US Demographics info.

Library Thing

http://www.librarything.com/
Look up books on the site's virtual book shelves. Discuss what you've been reading with other members of the site. Give or receive reading suggestions.

Ref Desk

http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
This "fact checker for the internet" has links to many search engines and websites that are set up  for researchers to double check their facts - or to find the facts that their research may be missing.

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

Allows access to most of the Library of Congress's print, visual, and audio-visual collections. Also offers the Library's other resources in digital format.