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This is the wiki for the SST division. You can use this wiki for:

• Organizing content for later publication to BPL's webpage
• Listing useful websites
• Keeping track of discussions in the reference meetings.
• Anything else you think might be useful. Really, anything.

Animals and Pets

A cat in an unnatural stance.

http://www.avma.org/care4pets/ - a site from the American Veterinary Medical Association, with information on care and selecting a pet.

http://www.missingpet.net/advice/ - advice on searching for a lost pet.

Adoption Blue Books

The latest volume, as of February 2008, is the "L" volume, which covers up to November 2007.

The books are updated in a circular fashion, i.e. the oldest book is replaced by a new set as they come in. The latest additions are not in the first volume, nor the last volume, nor are the spread throughout the book. Vol. J-851 to J-990 contains children added between March 2006 and July 2006.

Business Plans

http://www.sba.gov/starting_business/planning/writingplan.html

http://www.mbda.gov/documents/businessplanwriter-one-pager-v2.pdf This is a Power Point presentation from the Minority Business Development Agency

http://leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/moyes/bplan/ basic instructions and 4 plan templates

http://www.bplans.com/sp/businessplans.cfm allows users to see 60 free sample plans for specific types of small businesses from the 500+ the company sells in their software product

http://www.bplans.com/samples/sba.ofn The Small Business Administrations source of plans for very specific small businesses.

http://www.smallbis.nypl.org sources of assistance and with a NYPL card 250 sample plans are available from one of NYPL's databases

Civil Rights Movement

Black Panther Party http://www.blackpanther.org also the Huey P. Newton Foundation site

http://www.stanford.edu/group/blackpanthers includes their Ten Point Plan

Brown vs. Board of Education http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/Civil_Rights_BrownvsBoE/BrownvsBOEfiles.html Primary resource includes formal documents and letters between the governor of the state. Unique sources for this popular topic

Civil Rights Program http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/Civil_Rights_Civil_Rights_Act/CabinetPaperCP5648310April56pg01.pdf The document sent from the attorney general to the Speaker of the House and to the Presidential Cabinet (on who's stationary it is composed) outlining a commission to, among other issues, create a commission to investigate the voting systems states used to excluded African Americans from registering to vote or voting. This was following a speech to the nation that voting was primary to every American's rights and that no impediment should be allowed to exisit. Document is extensive.

Jackie Robinson letter to President Eisenhower urging him to ensure the immediate rights for African Americans saying that they had waited too long already. digitalized copy. http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=17&title.raw=Letter%20from%20Jackie%20Robinson%20to%20President%20Dwight%20D.%20Eisenhower

Martin Luther King, Jr. http://foia.fbi.gov/king/mkl1a.pdf In November 1975 William Sullivan, former Assistant Director, Domestic Intelligence Division of the FBI testified before a Senate Select Committee revealing the "no holds barred" war J. Edgar Hoover had waged on Mr. King. They had detailed records from as early as late 1963 of Hoover's attempt to discredit him and attempts to replace King as the leader he had become. Hoover called it "neutralizing" King. Sullivan's announcement created a determination by the government and the public to review all documents and ensure that the FBI had in no way participated in, either directly or indirectly, in the assination, known it was going to occur or create an atmosphere that encourage an assassination. This site hasover 16,000 photocopied pages of the FBI documents used in the investigation. As a document presented it is indexed with page numbers for access. Excellent primary source and fascinating historical reading.

Malcom X Project http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccbh/mxp archival footage, speeches, new info on his assassination and oral histories of people close to him

Montgomery Bus Boycott http://www.stanford.edu/goup/king/about_king/encyclopeia/bus_boycott.html

Little Rock school integration http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/LittleRock/littlerockdocuments.html This primary resource includes telegrams and official notices between Arkansas' governor and the President; Eisenhower's personal notes following a meeting with the governor; Presidential decrees of increasing warnings that Federal troops could be used to quell the continued violence and even a telegram from Little Rock's mayor alerting Eisenhower that the governor and his wife were personal friends of the people responsible for inciting most of the violence.

Computer Tips and Tricks

Customizing Google http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/11/biases-and-restrictions-in-google.html

Congressional Committees

To locate Congressional committees link to http://www.house.gov or http://www.senate.gov. Committee members are listed. Every legislator has a web site which will list his/her committee affiliations.

Emmett Till murder

http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/Civil_Rights_Emmett_Till_Case/EmmettTillCase.html Primary documents including a telegram from Emmett's mother directly to the President demanding action.

Federal, State, and local Government Resources

Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation http://www.bedc.org/ This website was suggested by Business Library staff for quick access to info about Brooklyn. Click on the tab that says "Brooklyn."

Federal money given to States http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy08/bis.html Scroll down to Program Tables and choose program: school meal programs, Head Start, Medicaid, Food Stamps, child support enforcement, low-income home energy assistance, state children's health insurance, foster care, Homeland Security and Disaster grants, public housing, community development, airport improvements, highways, capital investment and federal transit are included. Has information on current and past presidents.

Guide for Filing a FOIA Request http://www.bushsecrecy.org/PageIndex.cfm?ParentID=2&CategoryID=8&PagesID=34

Passports http://www.travel.state.gov/passport Has all information related to obtaining, applying for, renewing passports. Including reporting lost or stolen passports, fees, online applications and downloadable applications.

Government Grants http://www.grants.gov Good starting points to explain why there's not free government money just waiting for recipients: http://www.nofreemoney.com/

Gov Documents

UN Library

Anna's UN Library report.

Forms

Free NYS court forms are available at http://www.nycourts.gov/forms/index.shtml

Federal agency forms, are available at http://forms.gov/bgfPortal/citizen.portal

Health

Nutrition & exercise websites

http://www.mypyramidtracker.gov MyPyramid Tracker is an online dietary and physical activity assessment tool that provides information on your diet quality and physical activity status. You put in the food and amounts you eat during the day and it will tell you what foods you still need to eat the meet the amounts recommended by the "pyramid." You can put in the amounts at the end of a day to assess that day alone but the unique service this site offers is that you can register and track your food and exercise balances for one year. Drop down menus are used for both foods and activities. They do not have to be used together; you can keep track of just one.

Women's health websites

http://www.whealth.org/links Website has many links related to women's health issues

Great Article on Starting an Import/Export Business

http://www.entrepreneur.com/startingabusiness/businessideas/startupkits/article41846.html

International Adoptions

http://travel.state.gov/family/adoption/intercountry/_473.html Provides as up-to-date as possible information on specific country's laws and limitations. US requirements and details about the assistance they can and cannot fer and necessary forms are explained in detail. A user-friendly site.

Labor primary sources

http://www.library.dol.gov Click on the Digital Library under "Find It".

Library Wikis

http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Best Practices Wiki

http://instructionwiki.org/Sharing_resources Library Instruction Wiki

NYC & NYS Vital Records

http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/html/vitalrecords/home.shtml NEW YORK CITY birth,death,marriage,genealogical

http://www.health.state.ny.us/vitalrecords NEW YORK STATE birth,death,marriage,divorce,adoption information registry and genealogical records and resources

No Child Left Behind Act full-text

http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/107-110.pdf

Nonprofit organizations

http://www.usa.gov/Business/Nonprofit.shtml USA.gov for Nonprofits One-stop shopping for all federal government programs that fund nonprofits and a section on basic proposal writing. Users can link to their state's requirements for incorporating, find information on special mail eligibility and filing for tax-exempt status. Site includes faith based initiatives.

http://www.usa.gov/shopping/forgovernment/forgovernment.shtml Sales for Government and Nonprofit Buyers Meant for state and local nonprofits excess property from the GSA and military is available for sale. Some items are: computers, real estate, and office equipment though the potenial buyer must realize that items and quantity vary constantly.

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/do663r.pdf Homeland Security Assistance for Nonprofits For organizations in dangerous areas or fields of work Homeland Security offers assistance.

http://www.dhcr.state.ny.us/general/pubs/05seminar8.pdf Joint Ventures for CHDO's and Nonprofits

http://www.nonprofitsrisk.org Nonprofit Risk Management Center Aimed at CEOs and managers, this is a resource for online information, Internet classes, books, articles and software to purchase about financial protection, injuries to or by volunteers, business continuity planning, facility risks and more.

Philosophy Resources

Online Philosophy Encyclopedia http://plato.stanford.edu/ A short blurb from their website--"All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of a distinguished Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, our dynamic reference work maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research."

Dictionary of the History of Ideas http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html Full text of an out-of-print title published in 1974. Searchable and Browsable.

Reference Desk info

Adoption Blue Books

Science sites

http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt. National Biological Information Infrastructure. Information on Biomes/Habitats: much more than is listed just on the home page.

http://tolweb.org Tree of Life Web Project. A peer reviewed collaborative project written by biologists. The pages are organized heirchically, using principles of cladistics.

Suggested Reading

some stuff from the web, plus a book about a scrotum.

Some Library wikis

• Other Departments
• Hints for Wiki Admin
• Jeff's Testing

Sandbox

Click on the link to go to the Sandbox. Experiment with creating and edit wiki pages without affecting the real pages.--> Sandbox

Wikipedia, an in-depth analysis

The comments are as interesting as the article itself

http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/02/wikipedia-and-the-new-curriculum/