Here are some sites the Germantown Community Library staff uses to answer  questions:

Zip Codes    Dictionary    Thesaurus        

OTHER USEFUL AND INFORMATIONAL SITES:

Ad-aware:    Free program for personal users that will remove adware & malware.  

Family Law Self-Help: A new self-help family web site designed for use by people representing themselves in court for divorce or legal separation or other family law situations.  Provided by the Wisconsin court system.  

Librarians' Internet Index:  A Searchable and annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.

The Space Place:  Everything you wanted to know about NASA & space, with information presented as games and trivia.  This site is designed for kids, but adults find it fun and interesting.

Spybot Search & Destroy:    Free program to protect your computer.  It will search for & remove malware, adware, and other undesirable items.

Stop, you're killing me!   "This site is a resource for the lovers of mystery, intrigue and suspense books.  Stop! has hundreds of authors, with complete, chronological lists of their books in this sub-genre. " - From home page.  This site seems relatively up to date, but does include a few errors and omissions.

The Urban Institute:    "The Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation. It provides information and analysis to public and private decision makers to help them address these challenges and strives to raise citizen understanding of the issues and tradeoffs in policy making."-- from their mission statement.

Urban Legends:  " 'Urban legend' [is] a term that embraces not only [specific types of folklore] but also common fallacies, misinformation, old wives' tales, strange news stories, rumors, celebrity gossip, and similar items." -- From their FAQ.  Check out the truth here before you accidentally spread misinformation.

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Last modified: January 07, 2008