Mansel Wells's List: Librarians Featured Sites

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary is based on the print version of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. The online dictionary includes the main A-Z listing of the Collegiate Dictionary, as well as the Abbreviations, Foreign Words and Phrases, Biographical Names, and Geographical Names sections of that book. It also includes 1,000 illustrations and 25 tables. Selected sections of the print Collegiate Dictionary, notably the Signs and Symbols section, are omitted from the online Collegiate Dictionary because they include special characters and symbols that cannot readily be reproduced in HTML.

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.

Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

* It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!
* Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
* The online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet connection.
* No membership required.

Bartleby.com combines the best of both contemporary and classic reference works into the most comprehensive public reference library ever published on the web.

dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology definitions.

Different from an encyclopedia or from a traditional online dictionaries, thesauri and glossaries because the images replace the words.

Reference Hotlist

1. The People History
2. Fun Trivia
3. Word Lab
4. RefDesk
5. Units of Measurement
6. LibrarySpot
7. 50 States and Capitals
8. Metric System and Unit Conversion
9. SpellWeb
10. New York Public Library
11. HyperHistory Online
12. Guide to Grammar and Writing
13. Biographies of Scientists
14. A Web of Online Dictionaries
15. SciCentral
16. HHMI's Virtual Lab
17. New York Times Books
18. The Time Zone Page
19. Time Zone Converter
20. A Dictionary of Units
21. Explorers of The World
22. WWWebster Dictionary
23. The Quotations Page
24. Research-It
25. American Sign Language Dictionary
26. Mad Scientist Network - An Ask-The-Expert Network
27. The Internet Public Library
28. The Library of Congress
29. Encyclopedia.Com
30. Encyclopedia of the Orient
31. Encarta Encyclopedia
32. Writing Style Guide
33. Columbia Guide to Online Style
34. "The Elements of Style" By William Strunk, Jr.
35. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
36. A Word A Day
37. TheFreeDictionary.com
38. Knowledge-finder.com
39. Environmental Directory
40. Science & Engineering Encyclopedia
41. Metric Conversion Table
42. Adventures of CyberBee

more than 33,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day.

The dictionary can be searched by birth and death dates, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords.

S9.com is a Wikipedia type system and everyone can edit biographies or even make their own. Whether you have a passion for history or simply know an interesting fact about the life of your current idol we invite you to contribute to our free project.

This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

Excellent bird's eye views for regions East of Hinsdale

Acronyms & Abbreviations by Category

GIGA Quotes Extensive collection of 100,000+ ancient and modern quotations, aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, sayings, truisms, mottoes, book excerpts, poems and the like browsable by 6,000+ authors or 3,500+ cross-referenced topics [20,000+ proverbs]

Biographical Index Directory of 13,000+ biographical names of historical figures, world leaders, noted authors, famous celebrities and the like including nationality, occupation, and years of birth and death

Reading List Selective list of 3,000+ classical, notable and best-selling books and other significant literature including 2,300+ first line excerpts from those works

100 search engines and web tools to locate resources for book lovers as well as numerous directories

Encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, and almanacs

Collections include Archives, Digital Libraries, E-Books, Geneology & Local History, Government Documents, Maps

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can:

* Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go,
* Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer,
* View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen,
* Print out the stories and poems to make your own book.

You can browse by author or title.
You can also use it in iTunes.

Whichbook gives readers an enjoyable and intuitive way to find books to match their mood. Instead of starting from the overwhelming choice of books available, whichbook starts from the reader and enables each individual to build the elements of that elusive 'good read' we are all looking for but don't quite know how to define.

The standard way of organising books for choice, on shelves in a library or a bookshop, or on the web, starts from the products available - the authors, titles, publishers or genres. Whichbook enables the choice of book to start from the individual reader and what they are looking for.

A collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.

Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) literature collections in online book format. This page contains links to online books in American literature, English literature, church history, history and government documents. For the convenience of foreign language teachers, some non-English sites such as French literature, are included. This page is part of the ISLMC Young Adult Literature; Middle & Secondary English page. The ISLMC is a meta-site designed for teachers, librarians, parents and students to preview selected sites.