Internet

Internet Links are web sites recommended by library staff.

Please review the Library User Policies and Regulations regarding use of library computers.

BROADCASTING SERVICES back to the top

ABC -- American Broadcast Company

CBS -- Columbia Broadcasting Company

CNN -- Cable News Network

ESPN -- ESPN Network

FOX -- Fox Broadcasting System

NBC -- National Broadcasting Company

NewsChannel6 -- WPSD Paducah news

PBS -- Public Broadcasting Service

Weather Channel -- The Weather Channel

 

BUSINESS and FINANCIAL back to the top

BusinessWeek Online--Business Week magazine offers daily news briefings, interactive mutual fund scoreboard, stock prices and trends, and money and credit information.

CNNfn--financial network includes news and announcements, international and domestic financial markets coverage, personal finance, and investing.

Dun and Bradstreet--Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) is the leading provider of business-related information maintaining the world's largest and most comprehensive data base of company information.

Hoover's Online--short description of company's location, top officers, sales, ticker symbol, links to stock quotes and news

CAREERS/COLLEGE PREP back to the top

ACT--college admissions testing program

America's Job Bank--U.S. Dept. of Labor and state public Employment Services agencies list of available jobs

Career City--a database of job postings, provides job description, contact information, and list of qualifications

College Net--information about colleges and scholarships

CollegeView--profiles colleges & universities, virtual tours of schools, electronic applications, financial aid information, career planning tools, and more

CollegeSource Online--over 14,000 college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover original page format

Education Network--contains information concerning all aspects of the college acceptance process

GRE Graduate Record Examinations--request an application, see test dates and centers, and take sample tests

Occupational Outlook Handbook--excellent starting place to search for employment information on specific occupations

Peterson's Education and Career Center--organized information about educational opportunities at all levels

USNews Colleges and Careers Center--College ratings, financial aid and scholarship information, school comparisons, provided by U.S. News magazine

 

COLLEGES and UNIVERSITIES back to the top

College and University Home Pages--find home pages from colleges around the world, alphabetically by name of school or by geographic area

Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS)--includes the Commonwealth's 15 technical colleges, 13 community colleges, and the colleges' branches and centers

Murray State University

Southern Illinois University

University of Kentucky

University of Louisville

Western Kentucky University

DIRECTORIES back to the top

InfoSpace--offers yellow pages, white pages, a marketplace guide and information services that provide detailed business information nation wide, company web sites, toll-free numbers, fax numbers, and e-mail addresses

Switchboard--provides residential and business listings, names, phone number and street addresses of friends, colleagues and businesses

ZIP Code--United States Postal Service; lookup zip code to an address or search by zip code

FINANCIAL AID and SCHOLARSHIPS back to the top

FAFSA on the Web--application for Federal Student Aid

FastWEB--searchable database of private sector scholarships, fellowships, grants and loan programs for attending college

Fin Aid: The Financial Aid Information Page--university financial aid offices; scam alert; financial aid calculator tools; sources of aid and loans

GOVERNMENT back to the top

Bureau of the Census--U.S. census information, including current economic indicators and population count; information on agriculture, families, manufacturing, language, real estate among others

Bureau of Labor Statistics--Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Index and information on unemployment and the U.S. economy

CIA World Fact Book--facts about countries including people, government, land, economy

Commonwealth of Kentucky Web Server--information resources for KY government and education

Congress.Org--your link to the United States Congress

Environmental Protection Agency

FirstGov--a search engine that indexes over 51 million federal and state government websites

Federal Reserve Bulletin--The articles report and analyze economic developments, discuss bank regulatory issues, and present new data

Fedstats--search guide to statistics produced by federal agencies

Internal Revenue Service--IRS tax forms, instructions, publications, and regulations

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Thomas--Legislative information on the Internet

U.S. Government Printing Office--access to government information products, services available to federal agencies, business and contracting opportunities, and employment opportunities

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions--searchable texts of current and past decisions

White House--access point to executive branch government information that is available on the Internet

HEALTH and MEDICINE back to the top

HealthAtoZ--comprehensive search engine for medical internet sites

HealthWeb--links to specific, evaluated information resources on the WWW (Click on Subjects)

Lourdes Hospital

MedExplorer--internet medical site

Medline plus--guide to prescription and over-the-counter medications

National Library of Medicine

RxList--Internet drug index

Western Baptist Hospital

 

JUST FOR KIDS back to the top

BookAdventure.com--created by Sylvan Learning Foundation, this site lets kids develop their own reading lists (K-8)

Exploratorium: The Museum of Science, Art, and Perception--Teens and advanced readers will find this site a neat place to further explore science topics (young adult)

IPL Kidspace--the Internet Public Library Kidspace has links to great games, reference sources, and more!

NASA Kids Main Page--from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NationalGeographic.com Kids--helpful for students interested in science; includes games and interactive news stories

PBS Kids--from the Public Broadcasting Service

StoryPlace--from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (pre-K through 6)

Yahooligans--the Yahoo! search engine for children includes links to games

LIBRARIES back to the top

IPL the Internet Public Library--the first public library of and for the Internet community

KyVL--Kentucky Virtual Library

Library of Congress--link to our national library; includes THOMAS, full text access to current bills under consideration in Congress

Michigan Electronic Library (MEL)--provides access to over 180,000 resources in 14 major subject areas, including Reference, Business, and Education

Murray State Libraries

McCracken County Public Library

University of Kentucky Libraries

LOCAL INTERESTS back to the top

Alben Barkley Museum an online museum containing Barkley memorabilia.

City of Paducah

Discover Paducah--a web-based community information system

Greater Paducah Economic Development Council

INTELLICAST: Paducah weather--gives local radar, precipitation totals, Nexrad and the 4 day outlook

Kentucky Network Services--lists servers by city or region

McCracken Co. Public Schools

Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce

Paducah/McCracken Co. Convention & Visitors Bureau

Paducah Public Schools

NEWSPAPERS (Electronic Editions) back to the top

Newspaper Links--gateway to newspaper and other related media organizations' Internet sites

Newspapers.com--find newspaper publications all around the world

REFERENCE back to the top

American Heritage Dictionary

Atlapedia--maps as well as key facts & statistics on countries

APA Style.org--American Psychological Association; information on how to cite an entire Web site and citing articles and abstracts from electronic databases.

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online--This award winning website has a comprehensive collection of full-text works, free of charge. Here are found standard reference works, and the greatest written classics in fiction and non-fiction.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations--search by quote or by author to find Who said it? or What did they say?

Bigfoot--find phone numbers of people anywhere in the US, as well as email address (updated monthly)

Digital Librarian--a librarian's choice of the best of the web

Infobel-- --an index of links to online telephone, fax and business directories from around the world

Information Please

MEL Reference Desk (Michigan)--contains electronic reference tools

Merriam-Webster Online--the electronic edition of a standard dictionary

My Virtual Reference Desk--index to sources to facts and information

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection--maps for different areas of the world

Roget's Thesaurus--search a word for similar terms or opposites

Statistical Resources on the Web

Style Sheets and Grammar--index to sources dealing with writing and citing papers

Wikipedia--a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate free content encyclopedia

SCIENCE and ENVIRONMENT back to the top

CSU Bioweb--Biological sciences Internet resources

Endangered Species--provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, this site offers the best way to find information about threatened and endangered animal and plant species in the United States

EPA--website of the United States Environmental Protection Agency

National Library for the Environment--information ranging from one-page dictionary/encyclopedia entries understandable to a lay person, through nontechnical and technical articles and reports, to database

TRAVEL back to the top

Barkley Regional Airport--serving western Kentucky, southern Illinois, southeast Missouri, and northwest Tennessee

Freetrip.com--produces comprehensive travel itineraries including restaurants, motels, and entertainment

Fodor's--trip planner with hotel and restaurant finders, travel tips, traveler's talk forum, and resource center

MapQuest--interactive road map atlas, driving directions, and comprehensive travel information (restaurants, lodging, city information, attractions, and weather) available

Travelocity--search for flight, hotel, car rental information, and more.