I have to design currency and I'm looking
for examples of money from other countries...
This currency dealer has a catalog available with over 6000 pictures
of notes worldwide. Beware of their watermark "ATSnotes.com" included
on each picture. Another dealer offers the World Currency Museum
with pictures of money minus the watermarks




















I need copies of Updike's "A&P", Welty's "A Worn Path",
and Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
A&P

A Worn Path

The Fall of the House of Usher





















I'm looking for personal narratives of World War I
nurses or ambulance drivers...
An article called "American Nurses for American Men" can be found
in Texshare Ovid's Nursing Collection; the article contains excerpts
from a nurse's diary. One of the History Matters documents features
writings from a WWI nurse's censored book The Backwash of War.
An American Nurse at War is a site tied to a documentary film,
and features numerous letters written by nurse Marion McCune Rice.
The World War I Document Archive has a page which includes
links to nurse's letters. Two sites with ambulance drivers' memoirs are
Ambulancing on the French Front and the letters of Harold Chapin
















I need a picture of an Italian opera poster...
Here is a brief discussion of the history of the Italian opera poster
and a couple of thumbnails. For additional posters, this site has more examples
of Hohenstein's work (you know, the "Father of the Italian Poster") over here

























Where can I go on the Web for genealogy info?
The Mormon Church has put their highly-prized database of information on the Web.
The Genealogy Page from the National Archives and Records Administration includes
NARA documents and articles on research strategy and tactics. For a daily tip on using
specific genealogical records, try Everton's Family History Newsline



















I'm writing a pro-and-con paper about the issue of [your choice here]
and I need some web sites to back up my position...
Project Vote Smart has a list of hot topics and links to
various pages of organizations and information, both pro and con.
Advocacy groups are linked from a site by Cal State @ Chico





















I need a copy of the original Texas Constitution...
it says something about insane people and idiots
not being allowed to vote. And where can I find a copy
of that new version of the Texas Constitution?
The 1876 version of the constitution has the "idiots and lunatics" clause in Article VI.
A proposed update to the Texas constitution is Senate Joint Resolution 1,
which is before the Texas Legislature




















Can you find a list of the top ten best business schools listed on the Web?
  The Education and Social Science Library at UIUC has brought together links
to numerous rankings at their College and University Rankings Page.
Their page also includes a"Caution and Controversy" section,
which links to skeptical discussions of the value and uses of these kind of rankings,
as well as a bibliography of print articles discussing the subject

















Can I search the Web for a job?
  Margaret Dikel's (nee Riley) well-known Riley Guide offers a gateway
to various job search sites on the Web




















Where can I find a list of the county officials for where I live?
  The League of Women Voters Your Elected Officials will do that for Collin County
and so will the county elections office web site. The National Association of Counties (NACo)
provides lists of officials for Collin, Dallas, Denton (which also has its own official site),
and Rockwall counties. Both lists provide additional officials not listed on the other



















I have to find the web site of a political party,
but it can't be the Democrats or Republicans...or...is there
a list of political groups supporting gun control...
  If someone is looking for the website of a political party,
the Marketplace of Political Ideas from the U of H libraries contains links to such.
Politics1 is also a site with links to political parties. Political advocacy groups are linked
from this govdocs site at Creighton University. Why are all these sites in red, white, and blue? (rhetorical)



















I'm trying to find a political cartoon that expresses the Libertarian viewpoint...
  In case our copy of the print version is missing from the periodicals shelf,
the Reason Magazine site has a link to their latest issue at their web site,
and provides pages with their cartoonists' (Chip Bok, Henry Payne, and Scott Stantis) work.
For a more general source of editorial cartoons, try PoliticalCartoons.com



















Where can I find information about careers on the Web?
  The 2000-01 Occupational Outlook Handbook is available in a hypertext version,
providing the usual sturdy OOH information (nature of the work, outlook, earnings, etc.)





















I'm trying to find a picture of...
A search engine just for picture-finding is ditto.com; the sample searches I did
in it were all successful. WebSEEk is another place to start looking for pictures
by subject. It allows you to search by keyword and returns thumbnails that match (sometimes)
what you are looking for. Clicking on the thumbnail takes you to a larger version of the graphic.
Another image search engine is The Amazing Picture Machine which provides a query box for
subject searching. In a search for a wizard, the APM was not too amazing;
it returned a picture of Judy Garland (Wizard of Oz, get it?). WebSEEk brought back
numerous images of wizards (cloak, staff, pointy hat). Image Finder is a list-o-links,
along with query boxes to search those links, which relies on several historical photo
archives found at the Library of Congress and the Ft. Worth Startlegram to name two.
The Mugar Memorial Library at BU has an overview of all this called Finding Images on the Web
















Do you have information on the country of da-da-da-da-da?
Who is the ruler of da-da-da-da-da?
  The 2000 version of the CIA World Fact Book is available. Additional digital counterparts
to print resources include the Area Handbooks series (currency varies depending
on when the research was done; once you choose a country's link,
click on its name when you get to the table of contents page
to determine the date of the information) and Background Notes
(usually as-current or more-so than our print version in reference).
ELDIS has links to a variety of resources for countries worldwide. To keep track
of changes in worldwide politics, or to find out who is the president
of where, try Leadership Views from the CIA, Rulers, or Election Notes












Do you have a current list of presidential cabinet members available?
The Suburban Library System in Illinois keeps a list , along with the
U.S. State Department, which also provides links to biographical sketches
of the individuals. Each of these lists includes additional officials
not on the other






















I heard there was a place on the Internet
where you could apply for a scholarship...
Fastweb is a service which allows you to create a personalized profile
that becomes the basis for scholarship information updates delivered
to your own electronic mailbox at their site. FinAid offers links
to a variety of financial aid sites and tools. Embark.com is another interactive site
which helps in preparing the student for the college search















I have to find the GDP of [insert name of country here]
for a consecutive ten-year period...
  I'll admit I shook my head in wonderment the first time I heard this one.
And I became skilled at directing students, at the apex of their fear
and apprehension, to the World Tables , becoming their reference hero.
But let's say that beloved resource takes a powder for a couple of days.
Or let's say they want statistics from an earlier or later time period
than the coverage of our 1991 or 1994 editions.
The Summers-Heston data set, aka Penn World Tables, to the rescue.
This site offers statistics for a large number of economic variables for many countries
from the 1950s to the early 1990s. Other data sets for various regions of the world
can be found at the sites of the IADB (Central and South America),
the UN (member countries), and Business Central Europe (guess)













I have to get a movie review off the Internet...
  There are several sources available to answer this one. Type in a title
at the Movie Review Query Engine and receive a list of links to reviews,
many of which are from nationally-recognized sources. Cinemachine provides
similiar information, and maybe a few more links than the MRQE.
Tv Guide has put the Motion Picture Guide on its site, the print version of which resides
on our reference shelves.
The beauty part of this last source is its coverage of movies from as far back
as the 1940s, or even the 1960s, which the first two sites do not have.
All of the above sources, and a few more, are linked at a
movie reviews page maintained by the Owens Library
at Northwest Missouri State University














Hey! Where's your zip code directory?
  Why use those bulky print directories? They always seem to be missing
from the shelf anyway. Try the United States Postal Service site. You can find
ZIP+4 information for a specific address , or the zip code(s) for entire cities and towns
if you don't know an address. Canadian postal code lookup is also available
















Can I get an email account through the school
here in the library?
  The last I heard was you could get an account
through a computer class you are enrolled in that requires lab work.
Here is a small list of links to providers of free web-based email accounts,
as well as a larger one. Naturally, we are not affiliated
with these last, so the buyer should beware



















I'm trying to find the address of the U.S. embassy
in da-da-da-da-da. Or...Does the country of da-da-da-da-da have
a consulate in Texas or just in Washington...
  The Embassy Page has alphabetical lists of countries and the embassies that exist within;
Embassy World is a similiar site. The web version of Foreign Consular Offices in the United States
is available in a Spring/Summer 1999 edition, as well as a list of U.S. embassies abroad
from the Department of State
















Don't you people have paper telephone books? And what happened
to the telephone directories you had on CDROM? How can I find
a phone number in Portland, Oregon now?
There are numerous phone, fax, email, and 800 directories on the web.
A site that links to many of these is available.
Find U.S. and international directories at teldir.com




















I need to find Material Safety Data Sheets, MSDS, and my instructor said
they're in a book here in the library like in the lab...
A site which offers about three dozen links to MSDS collections is available.
Where to Find MSDS on the Internet is a site maintained by the U of Kentucky
chemistry department and includes a larger list of annotated sites along with the
approximate number of MSDSs for each. Since none of these sites boasts completeness, if a
chemical can't be found at one of the repositories, they should keep on clickin'


























I'm trying to find out where my representative stands
on certain issues...and their voting record...
  The always-faithful Vote Smart has a map which leads to a list
of a state's political representation. Clicking on a name returns a subject list
of issues and links to yearly votes on bills covering that subject. Congress.org
also provides a map to find your representatives; the resulting page
includes recent votes. The C-SPAN web site provides a pull-down/radio button interface,
allowing searches by subject, Congressional session, and month, and returns the roll call
yeas and nays.


















and what committees they're on...
   The Clerk of the House provides a site which tableizes an
alphabetical list of House members and their committee assignments. Go here for a
corresponding list of Senate committee membership.


















and which PACs donated money to them...
and how they've been rated by special interests...
   The ever-vigilant Library of Congress has a list-o-links to
sites by special interests which have rated the reps based on issues.
A site by a former employee of the Federal Election Commission called
FECInfo contains a large amount of information regarding PACs, including who contributed
to individual candidates (and the FEC itself has a website which includes
a links page called Information About Candidates, Parties and Other Committees).
The Center for Responsive Politics, the makers of the tome Open Secrets,
has a site which lists PAC data on very specific issues,
as well as info on the contributors to the 1996 races. Remember all of this
is for candidates in the U.S. Congress and not the statehouse.
For those candidates, try Follow the Money, which includes data for state races.
The FEC has a site which lists the spelled-out of PAC abbreviations,
intuitively called Pacronyms


















...oh, and I'm not sure who my representative is...
   And remember the Vote Smart website provides a quick way
to determine your rep by typing in a zip code. Find Your Incumbent
from the Texas Leg adds some additional search options