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Arts: Art, Dance, Film, Music, Theater
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Art

Art History Resources on the Web - extensive links cover prehistoric to 20th century art Artcyclopedia - directory to best fine arts image collectionsInventories of American Painting & Sculpture - provides information on over 335,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide Museum of Online Museums - online collections and exhibits National Gallery of Art Smithsonian Institution

Dance

The Dance Centre Dance Links Dance Links Dance Magazine

Film

cvillemovies.com - local schedules Yahoo! movies - local schedules, buy tickets in advance through Fandango Current Film - reviews from The New York Times Internet Movie Database Movie Review Query Database Screen It! - reviews for parents Virginia Film Festival

Music

All-Music Guide - Biographies, reviews, and essays covering all types of music and performers. Searchable by composer, song, album, etc. New! America Singing - 19th century song sheets from the Lib of Congress International Lyrics Playground New! The Lied and Art Song Texts Page Lyrics.com New! University of Virginia Digital Collections World Anthem Database

Theater

Ash Lawn Opera Festival Four County Players Heritage Repertory Theater Live Arts The Paramount Theater Shenandoah Shakespeare University of Virginia Dept of Drama
Biography
Books
Best Sellers and Award Winners BookLetters - reviews, recommendations, booklists Books in Print - Use this database to search for books in and out of print New! J-MRL Wiki - Sharing Information about Books for Readers of All Ages Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes - How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author (Lib of Congress)

Book Events

Center for the Book Friends of the Library Book Sale Virginia Center for the Book Virginia Festival of the Book

Book Groups

New! Everything you need to know for those forming a book group and for veteran book group participants.

eBooks: books that can be read online

Bartleby.com Bibliomania A Celebration of Women Writers New! Google Electronic Book Archive The Internet Public Library NetLibrary - (you can create your free account at any branch, then access from home) The Online Books Page Project Gutenberg New! Read Print - (online books, poems, short stories) University of Virginia Digital Collections

Rare & Out-Of-Print Books

Advanced Book Exchange, Inc. Bibliofind BookFinder

Readers' Corner

New! Contains book reviews, reader's advisory, author information and more.
Business & Finance
Business & Company Resource Center - (1997- current) an online database that provides company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals New!Business.Virginia.Gov Charlottesville-Albemarle County Chamber of Commerce Consumer Price Indexes Foreign Currency Exchange Rates Foreign Exchange Rates & Interest Rates - current & historical data from the Federal Reserve Board Historical CPI: 1913-present NetAdvantage - Standard & Poor's online Savings Bond Redemption Calculator New! SCORE - local entrepreneur education New! Start a Small Business in VA Treasury Department - includes the public debt, savings bonds, T-bills, and more U.S. Small Business Administration

Commodities:

Chicago Board of Trade Chicago Mercantile Exchange Lind-Waldock: Futures Trading New York Mercantile Exchange

Corporate Information:

AnnualReports.com EDGAR Database of Corporate Information - (SEC) Fortune 500 Hoover's Company Information The Public Register's Annual Report Service Virginia Corporations Thomas Register

Stock Market Information:

BigCharts: stock charts etc Historical Stock Quotes - looks up exact closing prices back to January 2, 1985 Morningstar New York Stock Exchange StockCharts.com - free stock charts and technical analysis information
Collectibles
Consumer Info (see also: Personal Finance; Home & Garden)
Countries of the World
Current Events, News, Magazines

J-MRL Resources - (call Library for access problems: 979-7151 ext.4)

eLibrary - Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virginian Pilot, the Roanoke Times & World News, and more Infotrac One File - news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics ProQuest - (click here if using from home)

Newspapers

The Central Virginian Christian Science Monitor CROZET gazette C-Ville Weekly The Daily Progress Greene County Record The Hook Nelson County Times NewsLink - includes a state-by-state list of newspapers Newspapers & Periodicals held in the Library of Virginia New! Newspapers for the Blind Newspapers in UVa Special Collections Newspapers in Virginia Database - Library of Virginia listing 6,000 individual Virginia newspaper titles Richmond Times-Dispatch Virginia Newspapers - (current local papers) Washington Post

Other News Sources

CNN Interactive Charlottesville Podcasting Network Charlottesville Tomorrow New! CVilleCalendar Cvillenews.com - news about Charlottesville and Central Virginia Google News National Geographic News & Media by Regions of the World - (from Yahoo) NPR - National Public Radio Newseum: the Interactive Museum of News - contains 180 front pages from 26 countries around the world WCAV-TV Channel 16 & 19 WVIR-TV Channel 29
Education & Financial Aid
Adult Ed - Albemarle County Adult Ed - Charlottesville Adult Ed - Greene County Adult Ed - Louisa County Adult Ed - Nelson County Educator's Reference Desk ERIC - US Dept of Education GED Information in Virginia New! Lexile Framework for Reading New! Lexile Info: Library of Virginia New! Lexile Info: VA Dept of Educ No Child Left Behind - Reauthorization database Organization of Virginia Homeschoolers Professional Collection - database of more than 300 full-text journals for educators State Council of Higher Education in Virginia - (SCHEV) - includes Reports of Institutional Effectiveness SchoolMatters - (a service of Standard & Poor's) Teacher Certification in the 50 states University of Virginia Education Library Virginia Educational Directory - includes private and public schools Virginia Standards of Learning

College Information

American College Testing Program - (ACT) College and University Rankings - a collection of sites which rank colleges and grad programs College Board Online - includes, test dates, scholarship information & more College Rankings - from U.S. News & World Report Google University Search National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education - association of Black Colleges and Universities Online Colleges & Degrees Peterson's list of schools & colleges Princeton Review Studying Abroad Information - Educations.com Test Prep - free test preparation for ACT, GRE,& SAT New! Virginia Trade Schools

Financial Aid

clarkhoward.com - student loans Colleges, College Scholarships, and Financial Aid College Athletic Scholarships FAFSA - Free Application for Federal Student Aid FinAid! - The Smart Student Guide to Financial Aid Funding Your Education - US Dept of Education Student Guide to Financial Aid from DOE Virginia College Savings Plan Yahoo's Financial Aid Sites
Emergency Preparedness & Flu Info
Employment
Foundations, Grants, Non-Profits
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance The Directory of Virginia Foundations - (only available at Central & Northside) The Foundation Center Foundation Directory Online - (in library use only) Grants.gov - (official US Government site) GuideStar - the National Database of Nonprofit Organizations Nonprofit FAQ's - info for and about nonprofit's Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration - links to Grant Opportunities
Genealogy
General Reference
Digital Librarian - a librarian's choice of the best of the Web ePodunk - profiles cities & towns across America New! Fast Facts Information Please Almanac Internet Public Library J-MRL Online Databases Librarians Index to the Internet LibrarySpot.com - a “Forbes Favorite” site for the best library and reference resources National Geographic: Index of Publications
Greener Living
Health & Medicine

Evaluating Medical Resources on the Web Flu Information - includes local resources Pandemic Flu Information - U.S. Gov't New! Patient 101: How to Find Reliable Health Information

Agencies and Organizations

ATSDR - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry American Academy of Family Physicians Brain Injury Association of America Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Consumer Health Information - (University of Virginia Health Sciences Library) Healthcare 411 - (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) Mayo Clinic MindZone: A mental health site for teens National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine National Center for Health Statistics National Women's Health Information Center New! UVa Health Resource Center New! Virginia Health Information Project

Cancer Information

cancer.gov - (National Cancer Institute) Encyclopedia of Cancer - (part of Gale Virtual Reference Library)

Health Insurance

Health Insurance Data - (from the U.S. Census) InsureMoreVirginians.org - plans for providing access to affordable health insurance medicare.gov - (info on drug discount cards)

Physicians

AMA Physician Select: On-line Doctor Finder Virginia Board of Medicine Practitioner Information - information on Doctors of Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, and Podiatry currently licensed in the state of Virginia

Other

Health and Wellness Resource Center Healthfinder KidsHealth - (Nemours Foundation) MEDLINEplus - National Library of Medicine free health information from reliable sources MentalHealth Net MerckSource New! Our Bodies Ourselves Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator
History
The African-American Migration Experience New! American Historic Newspapers New! American Presidents - UVA Miller Center of Public Affairs Ancient Manuscripts:the Schoyen Collection Best of History WebSites - sites are rated for usefulness and accuracy New! Experiencing War - Stories from the Veterans History Project Freedman's Bureau In the First Person - oral histories, diaries, letters Jamestown - virtual history Lewis & Clark National Register of Historic Places & VA Landmarks Register Our Documents - 100 milestone documents of American history Perseus Digital Library - primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece & Rome Portraits of the Presidents and the First Ladies - Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Rome Reborn - a digital model of ancient Rome around 320 A.D. September 11 Digital Archive Today in History - Library of Congress Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture The Valley of the Shadow - 2 communities in the American Civil War New! Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Archives

American Memory - Historical Collections from the National Digital Library New! Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies - research projects Digital Library Program - Library of Virginia Virginia Center for Digital History
Home & Garden (see also: Consumer Info)
Homework Help
Grolier Online - includes The Encyclopedia Americana, the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, the New Book of Knowledge,Lands and Peoples, the New Book of Popular Science, and America the Beautiful Homework Help - science,biography,myths, inventions – all that and more links pulled together on J-MRL's Teenpage! Junior Edition - designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books (most are full-text) for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. Junior Reference Collection - a GaleNet reference source containing Biographies,DISCovering Authors, Multicultural Encyclopedia, science information, Asian American Almanac, and the Encyclopedia of World Cultures National Geographic: Index of Publications Student Edition - designed for high school students, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people,government, history, sports and more.