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Jobs & Careers
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook
    Designed to provide assistance to individuals making decisions about careers. Describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
  • USA Jobs: Office of Personnel Management
    Official federal government jobs site. Select a category for the type of work: Professional Career, Part-Time, etc. Narrow by field, keyword, salary, location, or other characteristics.
  • Monster.com
    Job search supersite with over 1,000,000 job listings as well as 3000 pages of resume help, salary data and industry information.
Local Information Parenting
  • Family.com
    Practical advice and creative ideas for making the most of your family time.
  • Parents.com
    Offers the latest ideas and advise on pregnancy, health and family life. Includes helpful message boards to guide parents through every step of a child's life.
Pet Care
  • Healthy Pets
    This American Animal Hospital Association site's pet care library and frequently asked questions are chock full of information.
  • Bow Wow Meow
    If you're looking for a unique name for your new pet, head to this site for names, name meanings, and a perspective on what others are calling their critters!
Politics
  • Vote Smart
    Enter your 9-digit zip code for a list of state and U.S. representatives, their biographies, campaign finances, issue positions, interest group ratings, and voting record
  • Public Agenda
    Nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion and citizen education organizations describes policy options and public opinon behind the major issues of our times.
  • FirstGov
    THE search engine for the federal government!
Readers' Resources
  • Dear Reader
    Start receiving books in your email daily with this online book club.
  • Amazon
    Very useful for finding exact publication dates. Also has reviews, excerpts, and reading group guides.
  • The Brothers Judd Good Books and Recommended Readings
    Book Browser
    ReadingGroupGuides
    These three sites have tons of info: sequels, reviews, and suggestions and more. We can't imagine what a reader would need that can't be found on these!
  • Online Literary Criticism Collection
    Contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works. Can be browsed by author, title, nationality or literary period.
  • Kent District Library's "What's Next"
    Helps you find what's next in series fiction
  • Morton Grove Public Library's "Fiction_L"
    Thousands of books in hundreds of topics, including "Books About Candy and Sweet Shops" and "Books That Keep You Up All Night".
  • Reader's Robot
    Very select list of titles by genre, with reviews.
  • Mostly Fiction: Booklists!
    More reading suggestions, gleaned from librarians across the country, compiled by Waterboro Public Library in Maine.
  • Overbooked
    Describes itself as "a web site for ravenous readers". Includes booklists, new and forthcoming titles, and starred review titles.
  • Whichbook.net
    This site creates a book list based on the preferences that you give it--funny or serious; safe or disturbing; no sex or sex; and nine other categories. The books aren't always available in this library, but the titles can be very interesting and can, of course, be requested on interlibrary loan.
Science Travel
  • Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel Online
    Informative site where the cost-conscious traveler will find authoritative commentary and travel recommendations.
  • State Department Travel Warnings
    Check this site before making international travel arrangements! Travel advisories, tip sheets for individual countries, passport and visa information, and more.
  • Travelers' Health
    Comprehensive resource for healthy travel from the Centers for Disease Control. Provides information for planning a safe and healthy vacation-country-specific risks and diseases, suggested immunizations, and health recommendations.
  • Help for World Travelers
    Links to all sorts of useful travel information including world dialing codes and world electric and phone guides.
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