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The Arts Gallery
Art | Film | Electronic Museums
Art
A diverse collection of resources on art and architecture.
A virtual tour of the vast collections of the New York Metropolitan Museum.
A virtual tour of the Louvre in Paris.
A virtual tour with links to special Web presentations developed in conjunction with recent exhibits.
Art works indexed by theme or artist, with a glossary of terms.
A comprehensive registry of visual arts information.
Film
Eonline Move Reviews.
Entertainments Eonline movie reviews, feature film information and
more!
Hollywood.com
Looking for movie reviews and more? Then you will not want to miss
this site!
Electronic Museums
Chicago, IL. Take an interactive tour of current public exhibits.
London, UK.
A museum of science, art, and human perception with over 650 interactive "hands on" exhibits.
Washington, DC.
Career Development Resources
ACPL's New Career Center
Job Hunting Online
Educational Resources
School Resources | College Resources
School Resources
Corporation for Public Broadcasting' s K-12 Resources
The JASON Project provides teacher training, and a curriculum specially developed to highlight the science, technology, engineering, and social studies of the year's expedition. Participating students at the interactive downlink sites have the ability through telepresence to "go live" to the expedition, to operate the scientific equipment being used, and to talk directly with the scientists at the expedition site.
This site offers support and services for schools, teachers and students to fully utilize the Internet, and its underlying information technologies, as a basic tool for learning.
College Resources
Prepare to take the SAT with tips on how to test better. You can even register to take the test online.
Includes university rankings.
Free Application for Federal Student Aid from the U.S. Department of Education.
Features helpful advice on financial aid and student loans. Includes calculators for figuring expected family contribution, cost of college years from now, and monthly payment amounts on student loans.
This site features information on financial aid, student loans, scholarships, and other topics of interest to college students and parents. Includes links to college financial-aid offices, state aid agencies, the Department of Education's student-aid guide, and instructions for filling out financial-aid forms.
Information on student loans and several financial-aid and loan calculators. Helps figure saving and borrowing techniques for college loan payments.
Electronic Libraries & News Sources
Electronic Libraries | Links
to Arkansas City
News and Weather -- Local, National, and International
| Genealogy
Electronic Libraries
Developed by the Kansas State Library, contains numerous links to state and federal governmental resources and Kansas libraries and communities.
List of Public Libraries with
Internet Services
Compiled by the Saint Joseph County Public Library, South Bend, Indiana.
Links to Arkansas City
Arkansas City Local
Connection
Featuring merchants, local advertisements, and South Central Kansas
Medical Center, by Arkansas City Chamber of Commerce.
News and Weather -- Local, National, and International
Some of these Internet sites have audio/video options
Local News
Local Weather Forecast & Conditions
National and International News and Weather
CNN Interactive
This interactive, informative news site provides up to the minute
news reports from the day's broadcasts, as well as a searchable database
of recent newscasts.
Other News Resources
This site collects links to virtual newspapers and news sites from around the WWW. It's maintained by the Electronic Resources staff of Jackson Library, UNC-Greensboro.
Genealogy
A
Barrel of Genealogy Links
Bookmarks galore for access to genealogy related WWW resources, sites
and homepages.
The KSGenWeb
Project
From the Internet Genealogical Society, includes links to counties,
Kansas history, lists, and societies.
Treasure Maps: The How-to Genealogy Site
RAND
Genealogy Club
From the RAND Corp., every imaginable link to genealogical sites is
right here, all very well organized.
Helm's
Genealogy Toolbox
An award winning site of value to anyone looking for his or her roots.
Impressive links allow you to search for yourself, or pay a professional
to discover your family history.
The Genealogy
Home Page
A rich annotated gold mine of genealogy guides, libraries, maps and
geography, online info links, software and societies.
Around the World
Information about Countries
Here you can search for information on locations within the United States.
Information on Countries
around the World
An alphabetical list of countries, provided by Yahoo, and is a good
starting point for school assignments.
The Virtual
Tourist
This is a geographic directory of WWW servers all over the world.
Clicking on the maps links you to Internet sites relating to various
geographic areas.
World Maps (graphical browser recommended)
Fast Facts
General Information
Sites for kids and adults caring for them from the American Library Association.
News Resources
Homework Help
Kids' Reading Room
Book Reviews, Reading Lists, Biographies
Children's Book Awards
E-Zines and Newsletters by and for Kids
The World of Animals
Internet Search Tools
Basic Search Engines | Meta Search Engines
Hutchinson Public
Library's Featured Search Engines
There are numerous search "engines" or tools that locate information and resources on the World Wide Web. Some do keyword searches of full-text documents while others are organized into subject lists which allows the searcher to browse by subject. The list which follows is only a few of the available search "engines".
Alta Vista
Indexes more than 30 million pages. Known for finding reliable results.
Excite
An online guide to the Internet which includes original editorial
content, a directory of rated and reviewed Internet sites, a large
database of sites not yet reviewed, and a powerful search engine.
HotBot
A major search engine from Lycos.
Lycos
First developed at Carnegie Mellon University, and is now a major
web search tool offering keyword searching with the option to limit
search terms, Pro Search Engine.
Northern Light
Features power, publication, industry, and news search engines.
WebCrawler
Use the WebCrawler for speedy, keyword searching.
Yahoo
Great for browsing by topic. Use it to explore Web resources in a
subject area or as a starting point for exploration.
Meta Search Engines
All-in-One Search
Page
ALL the search engines in one place!
DogPile
DogPile searches 13 search engines, 6 Usenet sources, and 2 FTP sites.
MetaCrawler
Submits your query to multiple search engines, and then compiles the
results.
ProFusion
Multisearch tool from the Center of Research, Inc., University
of Kansas.
Quick Links
Featured Links Section dedicated to various local and state organizations.
Reference Desk
Dictionaries, Thesaurii, etc.
| Directories | Medical Information
Travel, Driving, and Geographic Information | Tax
Forms
Dictionaries, Thesaruii, Translators, etc.
WWWebster
Dictionary
An excellent hyperlinked dictionary and thesaurus, based on the Merriam-Webster
Dictionary.
Index of On-line
Dictionaries
Page index of on-line dictionaries, thesaurii, and other reference
works pertaining to words and phrases. Comprehensive, and covers many
languages.
Roget's Thesaurus
of English Words and Phrases
Hypertext edition of Roget's Thesaurus.
World Wide Web Acronym
and Abbreviation Server
An index of over 10,000 acronyms and their expansions. The database
is updated weekly.
Foreign
Languages for Travellers
Translation of travel words and phrases, numbers, shopping and dining,
directions, places, times and dates. The site also has sound files
to help with pronunciation.
Esperanto to English
Translation Dictionary
A searchable index that translates a word in Esperanto to its English
equivalent, using the online Richardson vortaro. Also available in
English to Esperanto form.
Basic
Dictionary of ASL Terms
A partial dictionary giving signing instructions for commonly used
American Sign Language terms.
Yahoo! People
Search
E-mail, Phone, Address
AnyWho
E-mail, Phone, Address + Toll free Search Directory from AT&T
Switchboard
Email, Phone, Address
LookupUSA
Directory Services
CityLink
Information about U.S. cities and states on the Internet.
National Library
of Medicine
Washington, D.C. Includes a wide range of medical topics.
PubMed
National Library of Medicine's database of abstracts and articles
on medical reserach and various topics.
Kansas University School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS.
2000 CIA World
Fact Book
Contains maps, geographic, economic, political, and cultural information
about countries around the world.
The Virtual Tourist
This is a geographic directory of WWW servers around the world. Clickable
maps link you to Internet sites relating to various geographic areas.
Excite Travel Section
Travel section of the popular Excite portal. Features many tools to
plan a trip, get directions, and figure costs.
Travelocity
Make your own travel reservations, or just "travel" from your computer.
Maps On Us
Navigation made simple. United States maps and yellow pages search.
Finds the shortest distance between two Kansas cities using all roads available in the database.