Web Links
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A librarian-picked list of World Wide Web resources
Almanacs
Information Please Almanac | Almanacs, encyclopedias, news, history, biographies, sports and statistics online
Associations
National Council of Women's Organizations | A bipartisan network of national women's organizations
Scholarly Societies Project | Look up societies and associations by subject, abbreviation, country and more
Biography
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress | From 1774 onward
Biography / Who's Who | Biography websites
Biography.com (A&E Media)
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Business
Franchise and Business Opportunities Handbook
Small Business Development Center | Northeastern California SBDC
Thomas Register | Information on companies, manufacturers, products and services in the U.S.
Calculators & Currency Converters
Calendars
10,000-Year Calendar | Create your own calendar online
Time and Date | Has calendars, calculators, holidays, time zones, celestial bodies and more
Holidays & Other Dates in the U.S. Secular Calendar
Career
Butte College Job Placement Service | Search for jobs, post jobs, get resume and interview help
Career OneStop | Information about careers, jobs, and industries
CSU Chico Career Center | Search for or post local and national jobs
Help Wanted Online (HWOL) Local Area Data | Compares the number of unemployed persons and the number of available job ads in the area; the top ten employers with the most job ads in the local area, the top ten occupations with the most job ads in the local area, and the cities within the MSA with the most job ads.
JobStar | Find resumes, career information and job announcements
Career Bliss | an online career community dedicated to helping find career bliss: happiness in life via happiness in the workplace.
Occupational Outlook Handbook | Comprehensive career information
Resumés & Cover Letter Samples
USA Jobs | Federal employment openings
Citation Formats and Study Guides
AAA Online | From the American Anthropological Association
APA/Online | From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
APA Style | Hints and tutotrials from the American Psychological Association
Citing primary resources | MLA & Chicago style for Web sites, videos, photos, maps, audio, and government documents found online. From the Library of Congress.
EasyBib citation guides | MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian Style guides
Knight Cite | An online citation generator for MLA, APA & Chicago styles provided by the Hekman Library of Calvin College.
MLA/Online | from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Research and Documentation Online | a 4-in-1 site offering MLA, APA, Chicago & CSE guidelines from Diana Hacker
Sparknotes | Free online study guides in almost all subjects
Cities, States, and Countries
See also Local Information
Cities / Counties / States (U.S.)
Ersys | Basic data for US cities displayed in charts and maps.
NACo About Counties | National Association of Counties
Yahoo Regional | Information on U.S. states, regions, & countries
Countries:
Background Notes | Facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of different countries
Country Studies | Includes history, social, economic & political information
Population Reference Bureau | Country statistics and reports
World Factbook | CIA country facts
Colleges and Universities
CollegeNet | Links to about 600 schools. Search by size, tuition, major, state or region.
Scholarships and Aid | From The Princeton Review
Study Abroad | IIE Passport directory of schools offering study abroad
Dictionaries
Bartleby.Com | Full text dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, fiction, nonfiction, poetry ...
Language Dictionaries | From Your Dictionary.com
Subject Dictionaries | Specialized topics index
Education
California School Directory | Information about all California schools
Cyberschoolbus | United Nations - global teaching and learning resources
First Generation College Students | Guide and resources for first-generation college students
Inventory of Approved and Projected Programs | California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office TOPS
National Center for Education Statistics | US Dept. of Education IES data, reports and statistics
National Geographic | Explore nature, history, animals & culture
National Guide to College Credit | American Council on Education
PBS | Explore art, drama, history and more!
Project Gutenberg | Online, classic Ebooks from early 20th century and previous centuries
Smithsonian Institution | Explore our history and heritage online
Encyclopedias
Cambridge History of English and American Literature
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The King Encyclopedia (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
WebGarden | A horticulture encyclopedia
Webopedia | An online computer dictionary and internet search engine for internet terms and technical support.
Wikipedia | Free, online community-built encyclopedia absolutely anyone can edit (not a vetted, permanent or scholarly resource!)
Government
C-SPAN | Hear presidential speeches and government news
CQ - From our Butte College database page
FedStats | Federal statistics on most subjects
GPO | Official information from the 3 branches (Legislative, Executive and Judicial) of the Federal Government.
Patent & Trademark Office | Searchable databases, forms and more from the US government
USA.gov | Services for citizens, contact information, organizations, statistics, laws and more.
Health & Wellness
National Cancer Institute | From the NIH and the US government
Drugs.com | Index of pharmaceutical drugs
Mayo Clinic | Information on diseases and conditions
Medline Plus | Information on health topics and drugs, plus a medical encyclopedia
Merck Manual | Concise, online medical information for healthcare professionals
Merck Manual Home Health Handbook for Patients and Caregivers
Psych Central |Mental health and mental illness topics
History
African American History | Web resource list from the University of Washington libraries
Asian History | From Aussie Educator, a collection of history resources on with an emphasis on China, Japan, Korea, India and the countries of the South East Asian region.
BlackPast.org | An online reference guide to African American History
Black history (Gale) | Biographies, literature, images and more
California History | A collection of Web resources from the California State Library
The California Underground Railroad: A Digital Archive
Feinstein Center for American Jewish History
Hispanic Heritage (Gale) | Biographies, literature, images and more
History matters | Web resources for U.S. history
Institute for Palestine Studies | The Institute for Palestine Studies’ Congressional Monitor project, launched in 2006, tracks every legislative initiative introduced in the U.S. Congress that mentions Palestine or Israel or has bearing on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, from the 107th to the 112th Congress.
Native American History sites | From ACRL
Women's History (Gale) | Biographies, literature, images and more
Holidays:
U.S Holidays | Dates and history behind the holidays
Images
Law
FindLaw | Search for information about different laws
Lawyers.com | Free research & legal forms from Lexis-Nexis
Legal Information Institute | From Cornell University. Offers Federal law, Constitution, U.S. Code, C.F.R., Supreme Court, Federal Rules, State law resources, State statutes by topic, U.C.C., Uniform laws, World law
THOMAS | Find out what is going on in Congress this week
Libraries, Other
Other Libraries | Local, state, national, and international brick-and-mortar and virtual libraries
Local Information
Butte County | Links to Education, Housing Authority, Air Quality Management, Libraries, etc.
Chico:
Chamber of Commerce | Community links, demographics, business, education & more.
Chico.com (Community Guide)
City of Chico
Durham:
City of Durham
Gridley:
Chamber of Commerce
City of Gridley
Local News, Radio & TV:
Chico Enterprise Record
Chico News & Review
KCRA.com
KHSL-TV 12
KNVN 24
KRCR-TV 7
KPAY News-Talk
KZFR FM 90.1 Chico
Oroville Mercury-Register
Paradise Post
Oroville:
Chamber of Commerce
City of Oroville
Paradise:
Chamber of Commerce
Town of Paradise
Transportation:
Airport Shuttle
Amtrak
Butte County Transit
Chico Area Transit System
Chico Municipal Airport
Greyhound Bus Line 
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Maps & Atlases
American Memory Map Collections | Historic maps from the Library of Congress
California Water Atlas | The California Water Atlas, a key resource on a crucial issue for this state, is now freely available online and can also be downloaded as an eBook at no charge
Google Earth | View satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.
Infoplease Atlas | Find a current map with information on history, government, economy, population and more
Mapquest | Find directions and maps.
National Geographic Maps | Search a region or theme using the Student Atlas or use interactive and historical maps
News, Current Events, and Weather
Almanac of Policy Issues | Information and documents on public policy issues
AP News Wire | Free, up to the minute news as it happens from the Associated press
Hot Paper Topics | With related websites and information
Public Agenda Online | Explore and understand critical issues
The Weather Channel | U.S. weather
Wired News | Search articles concerning technology, business, and people
Online courses -- free
Alison | Free online courses with certificates for basic and essential workplace skills
Coursera | Free online courses from Princeton, Stanford, and others
Education Portal Academy | Free courses with quizzes to prepare for the CLEP, or to just increase your knowledge
edX | Free online courses from UC Berkeley, MIT, and Harvard
GCF Learnfree | Free basic skills online courses in computer literacy, reading, and mathematics
Khan Academy | Free video lessons and courses
Open Courseware Consortium | Courses from many universities and in many languages
Open Culture | Free online courses, movies, textbooks and more
Udacity | Free online courses in the sciences and computing
Phone, Zip & Area Codes
International Telephone Directory
Religion
Science
Dictionaries Reference Desk - Science | Agriculture, Archaeology, Earth science & more
Eric Weisstein's World of Science | Math, biography, physics, astronomy, & chemistry
Periodic Table of the Elements
Statistics
American Factfinder | by the US Census Bureau
Data.gov | Searchable data, including geodata from the US government
Digest of Education Statistics | Contains information on number of schools and colleges, teachers, enrollments, and graduates, plus educational attainment, finances, federal funds for education, libraries, and international education.
Earthtrends: The Environmental Information Portal | Data from leading statistical agencies plus maps, tables, charts and analysis from World Resources Institute
FedStats | Federal statistics on most subjects
Help Wanted Online (HWOL) Local Area Data | Compares the number of unemployed persons and the number of available job ads in the area; the top ten employers with the most job ads in the local area, the top ten occupations with the most job ads in the local area, and the cities within the MSA with the most job ads.
Housing Authority of the County of Butte | Click on Reports --> Butte Countywide Homeless Continuum of Care for statistics on homelessness in Butte County.
Kids Count | Statistics on children in the U.S.
OFFSTATS | Official statistics for countries, regions, topics
State Health Facts | Kaiser Family Foundation
Statistical Abstract of the United States | The national data book up to 2012
World Bank Open Data | The Data Catalog provides download access to over 7,000 indicators from World Bank data sets.
Sustainability
California Almanac of Emissions & Air Quality | Annual reports
Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) | From the Pew Center: research and information on climate change.
Earthtrends: The Environmental Information Portal | Data from leading statistical agencies plus maps, tables, charts and analysis from World Resources Institute
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Nobel Prize-winning organization on climate change.
Trades & Industry
International Building Codes (2009) | Free building codes
Sweet's General Building & Renovation Catalogs |Free to register and use
Thomas' Register | Information on companies, manufacturers, products and services in the U.S.
Web Directories
ILP2 | Internet Public Library 2 - Information you can trust
Refdesk | Provides quality, credible, and current web-based reference resources
World Affairs Council | A guide to World Affairs Organizations in Northern California
