Virtual Reference Desk : Factbooks

• Best Places to Live in America (includes statistical snapshots of 300 cities)

• A Dictionary of First Names (Oxford University Press)

• FACTS.com (Facts on File summary of national and world news reports from 1940 to present)

• Facts for Features (Census Bureau statistics for holidays or special observances)

• 50 States and Capitals (quick facts and links to web sites on each state)

• How Stuff Works

• Infoplease.com (dictionary, encyclopedia, almanac)

• The Old Farmers Almanac (weather and miscellaneous information)

• Oxford Reference Online (includes several seminal Oxford University Press reference texts)

• Robert's Rules of Order

• World Almanacs

• The World Factbook (annual survey of countries prepared by CIA)

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