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The allmusic website was created in 1995 as a place for music fans to indulge their passion. Whether you’re visiting allmusic to look up an out-of-print recording, to get our take on a new release, or simply to explore the world of music and see where it may lead, you’ve come to the right spot.

Use the Fugitive Fact File to retrieve hard-to-find and miscellaneous information. Links to related websites are included. A more detailed description is available. Curious? View facts that have been added recently. Compiled by the staff of Hennepin County Library in Minnesota.

Associations on the Net Get listings of associations under the headings of Arts, Business, Computers, Entertainment, Health, Industry, Labor, Law, Science and Social Sciences. From the Internet Public Library.

gethuman 500 database "For those frustrating customer service phone calls. A list of shortcuts to bypass IVR phone trees when you would prefer to reach a human customer service/support representative sooner than later." From the gethuman consumer movement. The site includes information on improving the quality of phone support. See particularly the general Tips. Includes a UK and Canadian listing.

Educator's Reference Desk. Probably the best reference site online for teachers. Includes thousands of informative links, lesson plans, and general reference information.

iTools.com. Excellent site; serves as a gateway to many reference and research links.

LibrarySpot.com. An excellent site that has hundreds of reference and research sources indexed all in one site.

The Internet Public Library. An invaluable resource.

Internet Quick Reference. IQR is a virtual library which attempts to identify, summarize, and categorize significant Web sites applicable to the information needs of a wide number of visitors.

Librarians Internet Index: A vast variety of information and resources.

The List of Lists is a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet.Content comes from a number of sources including: Specialissues.com, Gary Price's "ResourceShelf" and individual users of the LOL.

New York Pubic Library Best of the web. Site is broad and indexed by subject.

The New York Public Library Picture Collection, a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.

NewsVoyager.com From the Newspaper Association of America. Provides links to U.S. daily and weekly newspaper homepages and sections, Canadian and international daily newspapers, newspaper groups, associations and other media organizations, and other sites with links to college newspapers and newspaper archives.

The Old Farmer's Almanac North America's oldest continuously published periodical is on the World Wide Web at this beautifulsite. Find weather forecasts, heavenly details, sun & moon rise & set for your area, along with all the details which make the Farmer's Almanac a browser's delight.

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

Welcome to ResourceShelf, where dedicated librarians and researchers share the results of their directed (and occasionally quirky) web searches for resources and information.

SYMBOLS.com An encyclopedia of graphic signs and symbols ("western non-pictorial ideograms"). More than 2500 symbols that you can search by word index or, incredibly, by graphic characteristic. The 1600 articles on meanings and histories are interesting and well cross-referenced.