Milner Library Reference Shelf O - Z

Phone, Zip, & E-Mail

Telephone Directories on the Web
Links to sites with directories of yellow pages, white pages, businesses, fax and toll-free numbers for the U.S., Canada and around the world. Search options include personal name, business name and category, street name and address, city, state, ZIP code, phone number, and E-mail address.

U. S. Postal Service Zip Code Directory 
Includes zip codes by mailing address, city postal abbreviations, and other useful mailing information.

Universal Postal Union
Provides connections to the postal administration offices for many countries. Useful for locating international zip codes.

Quotations

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
Search for keywords or phrases in reference works, collections and anthologies of verse, fiction and non-fiction books.  Or, select quotation sources to search by author, subject or title. 

The Quotations Page
More than 24,000 quotations from all time periods drawn from a wide variety of sources. Provides links to numerous quotation web sites.

Statistics

Bloomington-Normal Demographic Data 
Site includes annual online publication produced by the Economic Development Council of the Bloomington-Normal Area. Includes population, labor, retail, income, housing, tax, and quality of life statistics.

FedStats
Comprehensive source for government statistics produced by more than 70 federal agencies. Search via broad topic areas, regions, alphabetical keyword index, or federal agencies.

Illinois Statistical Abstract
Comprehensive compilation of economic and demographic data relating to Illinois and to political subdivisions within the state.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
Contains over 1400 tables and graphs on a collection of statistics on social, economic, and international subjects.

U.S. Census Bureau
Provides current population estimates as well as social and economic characteristics at national, state, county, city, and other geographic levels.

Travel & Maps

Council Travel
Tips on international travel to aid students and budget travelers in obtaining the best prices and options available. Includes information on language and work and study abroad programs.

Digital Librarian: Travel
Librarian Margaret Vail Anderson's selection of links to travel sites.

Fodor's.com: Travel Online
High quality and wide-ranging information on travel around the world. Create your own miniguide to 99 cities worldwide.

Illinois Bureau of Tourism
Find tips about Illinois getaways, places to stay, and a variety of tourist topics.

MapQuest
Interactive street atlas of the continental United States provides mileage, street maps, and driving directions. Includes trip planning information for cities, hotels, restaurants, attractions, and weather.

Maps On Us
Another mapping and routing service which offers detailed maps, driving directions, and Yellow Pages.

Topozone
An online map service providing topographical maps of the United States.

VirtualRelocation.com
Relocation tools and a national relocation directory as well as a search by city.

Yahoo: Travel
Structured menu of more than 40 travel subheadings listed alphabetically.

Weather

Intellicast Weather
National weather conditions by region or city, including map of regional temperatures. Links to other sites for precipitation, high and low temperatures, radar images, etc.

Marine Weather
A guide to marine weather information throughout the United States and in several world locations. Contains forecasts, maps, images, and links to other relate sites.

Midwestern Regional Climate Center
A source for assessment of current climate conditions in the Midwest. A cooperative program of the National Climatic Data Center and the Illinois State Water Survey.

National Weather Service
Links to regional, national, and international weather-related sites as well as to sites for historical weather statistics.

UM Weather
The most comprehensive source of weather information on the web. Includes forecasts, images, and links to hundreds of weather sites. Sponsored by The Weather Underground of the University of Michigan.

USA Today Weather
Weather news, yearly U.S. summaries, and five-day forecasts for hundreds of U.S. and international cities.

Weather Channel
Breaking weather news and headlines from across the country. Links to international sites and options for checking weather in a particular city or zip code.

Writing & Citing

Citing Internet and Electronic Resources (Milner Library)
Milner Library's guide to citing Internet resources.

Online Writing Lab (Purdue University)
Writing guides, research paper guidelines, grammar tip sheets, and style manuals.

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