Dictionaries, Thesauri, etc.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Editon
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th edition (1901)
Biographical Dictionary
Merriam-Websters Dictionary
Roget's Thesaurus (1911)
Simpson's Comtemporary Quotations: 1950-1988
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Webster's Thesaurus
WordNet - Lexicon database for English
Yahoo Directory of Language Dictionaries
yourDictionary.com

Encyclopedias, Almanacs, etc.

Encyclopedia Britannica - in addition to the encyclopedias, it also contains the Britannica Internet Guide, and a video and media file collection (access restricted to SH students).
Encyberpedia
Encarta Encyclopedia
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Information Please Almanac
Jewish Encyclopedia - contains the full content of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia that was published between 1901-06.
Old Farmer's Almanac
Worldbook Online - only available on South High's computers

Citation and Grammatical Style

Citing Internet Resources
Elements of Style (Strunk, 1st edition, 1918)
Guide to Writing and Grammar - from Professor Charles Darling of Capital Community College
Ready Reference Style Guides from LSU Libraries - contains style guides on basic writing, APA, Electronic Formats, MLA, and Chicago/Turabian.

Yellow & White pages

AT&T Toll-free Internet Directory
BigYellow-Source for Yellow Pages
GTE-SuperPages Interactive YellowPages
Switchboard (find telephone numbers)
WorldPages

College, Financial Aid, & Career Guides

CareerBuilder
College Board - SAT registration, admissions, etc.
College Related Resouces for Students, Parents, and Counselors
CollegeNet
Foundation Center - helping grantseekers.
Occupational Outlook Handbook - information on a wide-range of careers by the Bureau of Labor.
Peterson's Education Center
Princeton Review

Travel, Geography, & Maps

Country Studies/Area Handbooks
Geographic Names Information System
Distance-How Far Is It?
Electronic Map Collection (from the Perry-Castaņeda Library - University of Texas)
Excite Travel
MapQuest
Merriam-Webster's Atlas
World Fact Book 2005

Periodical databases

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - see librarian for username and password
ERIC (Education database)
FindArticles.com - a vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
Ingenta (Periodical Database for over 26,641 publications; various disciplines)
Newsday Online - full-text Newsday articles back to 1985 (only available in South High)
Student Resource Center - Bronze: 1980 - present - full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines and newspapers, including the full-text of the past year's The New York Times.

Time, Weather, & Temperature

Calendars
Fahrenheit & Celsius Temperature Conversion - from the University of Phoenix
Greenwich, England - Home of Greenwich Mean Time
Millennium Clock Project - ideas and resources to help teachers prepare lessons and help students learn more about the history of time keeping, the way clocks work, discover some individuals with the inventive spirit and find out about the process which helps protect creative or intellectual property.
Virtual Perpetual Calendar
What Time is It?
Worldwide Holiday and Festival Site

Reference and Research sites

• iTools - provides keyword searching utilizing different "iTools". The site is broken down by search method: search tools (web search, web directory, discussion groups, and people search), language tools (dictionary, word lookup, computer terms, text translator, and a web page translator), research tools (encyclopedias, newspapers and magazines, topic guides, biographies, quotations, and telephone area codes), financial tools (convert currency), map tools (maps and driving directions), and Internet tools (user networking).
  
• Library Spot - enables user to quickly find the best topical information available on the Internet. An editorial team hand-selects and reviews web sites "for their exceptional quality, content and utility."
  
• MarcoPolo - standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher. MarcoPolo includes panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities and materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines (modeled after standard classroom textbooks).
  
• Refdesk - a searchable index of quality Internet sites organized in a topical manner - largely consisting of traditional reference information (calendars, encyclopedias, almanacs, phone books, etc.).
  
• xrefer.com - a giant online reference library - "all the reference books that you'd expect to find in any good reference library." Xrefer's books are from the world's leading reference publishers and include encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law. Search by word.
  

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Biography

Biographical Dictionary
Biography.com - from the A&E Television Networks Biography Channel

Prizes & Awards

Caldecott Medal for Children's Picture Books
National Book Awards
Nobel Prize Recipients
Newbery Medal for Children's Literature