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things you should know about...
Wikipedia |
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7026.pdf
To use or not to use? Wikipedia
is a free online encyclopedia anyone
can add to or edit--the entries
don’t undergo verified expert
review.
Provided by Educause Learning Initiative
<www.educause.edu/eli>, this
brief answers the following: "What
is it?" "Who's doing it?"
"How does it work?" "Why
is it significant?" and more. |
| Snopes.com
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"Rumor
has it".... Want to know if
the email content you just received
is true or just an urban legend?
Check out Snopes!
http://snopes.com/ |
| You
Quote It, You Note It! |
Enjoy clicking through this multi-media
module on plagiarism. Developed
by librarians in the Vaughan Memorial
Library at Acadia. |
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| 100.com |
http://directory.100.com/?cat=Libraries |
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Includes
the story of the "The Praying
Hands" by Barefoot.
http://www.barefootsworld.net/albrechtdurer.html
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by David Givens.
Contains "The Nonverbal Dictionary
of Gestures, Signs, & Body
Language Cues."
http://members.aol.com/nonverbal2/index.htm
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Meta-search engine
featuring clustering technology,
in-page preview feature and more.
http://clusty.com/ |
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by Come and Hear
http://www.come-and-hear.com/tcontents.html
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(Christian Classics
Ethereal Library)
A 38-volume collection of writings
from the first 800 years of the
Church. Includes Ante-Nicene Fathers,
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers,
and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ |
| EM-DAT:
International Disasters Data Base |
http://www.em-dat.net/
Originally created by the World
Health Organization, now maintained
by Centre for Research on The Epidemiology
of Disasters. Includes over 12,800
disasters worldwide since 1900. |
| Family
WatchDog |
The
"goal at Family Watchdog is
to provide you with the information
you need to protect your loved ones...view
known registered offenders and predators
in your area."
http://www.familywatchdog.us |
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http://www.govengine.com/index.html
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"Includes
country-by-country analyses and
the most up-to-date data available
on foreign investment codes, taxes,
tariffs, banking regulations,
monetary policy, black markets,
and more." Country reports
provide helpful insights into
the economy and business environment
of a particular nation.
http://www.heritage.org/index/
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(Photos) |
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An inspirational
Flash movie by Dayspring.
http://www.dayspring.com/movies/view.asp?moviename=lordsprayer.swf
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Our Acquisitions
Librarian, Judith Rigsby, found
this "interactive museum
of news" site. Click "Today's
Front Page" for thumbnails.
Use "Map View" to
get to the pdf files either
from the map or the "List
by Region."
http://www.newseum.org/
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| The
Phrase Finder: Meanings and Origins
of Phrases, Sayings, and Idioms
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Browse
phrases by alphas or categories.
PhraseFinder
- A Phrase a Week
http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/meanings/413900.html
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by Ramona Islam,
Dimenna-Hyselius Library, Fairfield
University
http://www.fairfield.edu/documents/Library/plagicourt.swf
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by
Marcia G. Phyfer
http://www.grace24u.org/praying.html |
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Provides the current consumer
Price Index (CPI), demographic,
wage and employment statistics,
and more.
http://www.bls.gov |
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For more Periodic
Tables, see the Chemistry
Internet Resources Guide.
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/index.html
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| Web
Interface for Statistics Education
(WISE) |
"A special feature of WISE
is the sequence of interactive tutorials
on key statistical concepts (sampling
distributions, the central limit
theorem, hypothesis testing, and
statistical power). "
http://wise.cgu.edu/ |
| LIBRARIAN'S
CORNER was
created May, 2003, by Myra Bloom.
Its purpose is to support ORU
Library Instruction and serve
as a medium for disseminating
information about research, resources,
and the library to ORU students.
Send
comments to
libbi@oru.edu and please include
"Librarian's Corner"
for the subject. |
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