Useful Websites
From Bplsst
Customizing Google
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/11/biases-and-restrictions-in-google.html
Atlases
http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/maps/map3.aspx?&g=0 Visually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S. through the use of interactive maps and data reports. Based at Queens College.
Biomes/Habitats
http://www.nbii.gov/portal/server.pt Explore in this site for more information than is listed just on the first page.
Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation
This website was suggested by Business Library staff for quick access to info about Brooklyn. Click on the tab that says "Brooklyn." http://www.bedc.org/
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 system states that intended 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.
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.
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 to tell them about 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,
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: President Eisenhower's primary resources http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/dl/LittleRock/littlerockdocuments.html This excellent primary resource incluedes telegrams and official notices between Arkansas' governor; 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.
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.
Federal money given to NYS
http:wwwgpoaccess.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.
Some are outright grants and some are matching grants. Also gives information for Bush's past federal budgets and Bill Clinton's.
Guide for Filing a FOIA Request
http://www.bushsecrecy.org/PageIndex.cfm?ParentID=2&CategoryID=8&PagesID=34
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
Government Grants
- All purpose: http://www.grants.gov
- Good starting points to explain why there's not free government money just waiting for recipients: http://www.nofreemoney.com/
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 offer and necessary forms are explained in detail. A user-friendly site.
NYC & NYS Vital Records
NYC:http://home2.nyc.gov/html/records/html/vitalrecords/home.shtml
birth,death,marriage,genealogical
NYS:http://www.health.state.ny.us/vitalrecords
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.
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.
Tree of Life Web Project
This is a peer reviewed collaborative project written by biologists. The pages are organized heirchically, using principles of cladistics. http://tolweb.org
Library Wikis
- Best Practices Wiki http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
- Library Instruction Wiki http://instructionwiki.org/Sharing_resources
Statistics
World Gazetteer http://www.world-gazetteer.com/
