Virtual Reference Collection - Elementary School

Date, Time, & Weather

• Earth Calendar - holidays & celebrations around the world
• On This Day in History
• Perpetual Calendar
• Those Were the Days
• Time: U.S.
• Time: World
• Weather: Local
• Weather: National

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia Britannica Online
• Dictionary / Thesaurus Online
• Grolier Encyclopedias Online
• Oxford English Dictionary

Fact Books

• CIA World Factbook
• 50 States and Capitals
• Infoplease Almanac
• Merck Manual - medical
• World Almanac

Finders: People, Businesses, Specific Information

• AnyWho: People Finder
• 411 Look-up
• InfoSpace People/Business Search
• Currency Converter
• International Dialing Codes
• ZipCode Lookups

General Reference

• Bartleby's Basic References
  factbooks, thesauri, classics, grammars, usage, style guides, Robert's Rules of Order, and more.
• Bloomsbury's Reference Books
• Biography.com
• Biography Resource Center
• Genealogy Sites
• How Stuff Works
• Ultimate List of Calculators
• Martindale's The Reference Desk
• The Reference Desk

Words

• A.Word.a.Day
• Acronym Finder Search
• Bartlett's Quotations
• RhymeZone - synonyms, definitions, rhymes, and more
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations

Maps, Atlases, and Flags

• WorldFlags101.com
• MapQuest
• MSN Live Search Maps
• Google Maps
• Yahoo Maps
• WorldAtlas.com