Are you looking for the words and music to a song? The 250+ songbooks owned by ILS are indexed and included in the California Library Systems Cooperative Song Index.
Check the California Digital Library for the MELVYL database which includes libraries of the University of California campuses, California Academy of Sciences, California Historical Society, California State Library, Center for Research Libraries, Graduate Theological Union, Hastings College of Law, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
What is a dollar worth? The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has a site which will calculate the value of a dollar from 1913 to date. The site also provides an annual table of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from 1913 to date.
Check here for a map and current information about earthquake activity. Here is a Community Intensity Map (or, shake map) for recent significant quakes. Here is commentary on recent southern California earthquakes.
Find the latitude and longitude of populated places and geographic features for the U.S. and its territories. Other location finders are:
Try these for today's news: CNN, MSNBC, Time.com and USA Today. Or, you can check the American Journalism Review's newslink site and find links to more than 8,000 newspapers, magazines, TV, radio and news services worldwide."
Newspaper web sites are frequently good sources of local information and local news. Try these web sites :
Ready Reference lists can help you to quickly locate reference sources to answer standard questions from your patrons. Many libraries have put well organized and useful ready reference lists on their home pages. Here are some that you can try. :
| Hawaii State Public Library System | Librarian's Index to the Internet | San Bernardino County Library |
| Internet Public Library | Rancho Cucamonga Public Library | UC Riverside - Infomine |
The Infopeople Project has a list of Best Search Tools and a chart with Best Search Tools. You can also use the Librarians' Index to the Internet (lii), which contains only web sites which have been evaluated and cataloged by a librarian. Infopeople and lii are both high quality products funded through the California State Library.
Sunrise/Sunset -- Use this site to find sunrise, sunset, twilight, moonrise, moonset and phase times for U.S. locations.
The University of Michigan runs a great weather site which includes forecasts, storm warnings, satellite and radar imagery, ski conditions and links to several hundred additional weather sites. Another good site is run by the Weather Channel. Find current weather conditions near you -- take a look at KNBC's Weathernet.
Have a question you can't answer? Here are some websites which are trying to tame the information on the Internet. Try it and see.
Try these almanacs for quick bits of facts. InfoPlease and Fact Monster for Kids.
Yellow pages -- The Big Book includes information on 11 million U.S. businesses and includes a map to show you how to get there!
Zip Code Directory -- The U.S. Postal Service has a wonderful web site! This link will take you directly to their zip code directory page.
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