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Modern Art
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Boston
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Gallery
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Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
Ask Art
Costume Resources
Online
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PPL
Art Resources and links
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Kelley Blue Book
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RI Division of Motor Vehicles
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Archive "Wayback Machine"
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State Free Net
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Journals Online
InfoWorks:
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Discovery.com
RI
Certification
RILINK:Rhode
Island Libarary Information Network for Kids
Technology
in the Classroom: links from RI Dept of Education
Lesson Plans-from PBS.com
Students
Black Excel College Help Network
College Board online
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Student Aid
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information about financial aid
GED:
High School Equivalency Diploma Program
Petersons
College Guide
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and Politics
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Division-RI Secretary of State
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Your RI State Assemblyperson
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Clean Government
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Center (Providence Journal Classifieds)
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and Training
Rhode Island
Job Bank
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All
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Theater
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Feinstein-Gamm
Trinity Repertory
Company
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Old House
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of Heraldry
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Security Death Index (Powered by FamilySearch)
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and Historical Societies
RI
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RI
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Web's RI Resources
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Guidestar-National
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PPL
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Health
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Weil (medical advice and information)
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(U.S. Department of Health)
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(National Institutes of Health & National Library of Medicine)
RI DocFinder
Web MD
History
Ancient Greece
History
Channel
HistoryNet
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of the U.S. - White House
U.S.
National Archives and Records
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American Colonist's
Library
Includes speeches, addresses, letters, state constitutions and federal
statutes from the colonial period
American
Memory
Over 7 million digital items available from more than 100 historical
collections compiled by the Library of Congress
British
Pathe Media Archive
75 years of 12 million images from Pathecinema newsreels
European
Documents
Selected translations, transcriptions, and facsimiles from Western
European primary documents
Making
of America
A digital library covering American social history from the antebellum
period through reconstruction
Internet
History Sourcebooks
Primary source material covering the Ancient, Modern and Medieval
world. Subsidiary sourcebooks include Africa, India, East Asia and
the Islamic world.
Our Documents
Documents of American history from the National Archives
The Vietnam Project
Documents of American history from the National Archives
What
Did You Do in the War Grandma?
An Oral history of Rhode Island women during WWII conducted by students
at South Kingstown High School
Conducting Primary Source Research
Do History
Teaches the researcher how to piece the past together using one woman's
18th Century diary as a case study
Indiana U.
Center for the Study of History and Memory
A guide to organizing and publishing oral history interviews
Using
Primary Sources on the Web
Housing
Housing Resources
HUD in RI
(includes section 8 housing search)
Home
Center (Providence Journal Classifieds)
RI
Housing Resources Commission
RI
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Legal
Database Locator
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Martindale-Hubble
Law Directory (directory of law offices and lawyers)
Rhode
Island Bar Association
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Brown
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CRIARL Union List of Serials:
Consortium of Rhode Island Academic and Research Libraries
Facts About Rhode Island Libraries
HELIN: RI Higher
Education Library Information Network
Library
of Congress
Massachussetts
Library Catalogs (Directory)
Ocean State Libraries
RI
Libraries: Directory of RI Libraries
RI
Office of Libraries and Information Services (OLIS)
RI
Talking Books Plus:Regional Library For the Blind and Physically Handicapped
RISD/Athaneum
SAILS:
Southeastern Automated Integrated Library Service
Literature
American literature
Web Resources Links
Electronic
Poetry Center-U. of Buffalo
English Electronic
Text Archive-U. of Virginia
Find a Poet A searchable
database of poets and their poetry through the American Academy of
Poets
Literary
Award Database
Literary
Movements
Perseus
Digital Library-Tufts (Contains a range of primary and secondary
materials for the study of Literature, Classics and the Humanities)
Project Gutenberg
Shakespeare-The
Complete Works
Magazines
National Geographic
Newsweek
Providence and East Side
Monthly
Rhode Island Monthly
Time
US
News & World Report
Museums
New England
Boston Children's Museum
Boston Science Museum
Heritage
Harbor Museum
Mashantucket
Pequot Museum
Mystic
Seaport
New
England Aquarium
Providence
Children's Museum
Roger
Williams Museum of Natural History and Planetarium
National and International
American Museum of Natural History
British Museum
Musee Online (Directory)
Smithsonian
Music
All Music Guide
ASCAP
Boston Symphony Orchestra
BMI
Celestial Harmonies
Classical Music
Copyright for music librarians
Dirty Linen
Harmonia Mundi
I Hear
America Singing
Putumayo
World Music
Rhode
Island Philharmonic
RootsWorld
Worldwide
Internet Music Resources Yahoo Music Indices
Link
to Music Collection on PPL web site
News
and Newspapers
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Channel 6 (ABC)
Channel 10 (NBC)
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Newspapers
NewsLink
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York Times
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for pet owners)
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of Providence
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Waterfire
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on world religions)
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Gateway (passage and word search of many different bible versions)
Catholic Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Mythica (mythology)
Religion Online (full
text religious documents and scriptures)
Religious
Resources (directory of religious resources on the internet)
Religious Tolerance
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controversial topics)
Rhode Island
City of Providence
Contacts for RI cities and towns
HeritageQuest*
from the library
HeritageQuest*
from your home
Moving to Rhode Island
Rhode Island Government ~ ri.gov
Rhode Island
History
Rhode Island Historical
Society
Rhode Island
State Archives
United
Way 2-1-1 of Rhode Island
Visit
Rhode Island
Link
to Rhode Island Collection on PPL web site
*available throught the SRRC to all OSL cardholders from anywhere
Science, Technology and Math
Discovery Channel
First
Gov for Science (science information from the federal government)
How Stuff Works
Math
Forum (math resources and help for students and teachers)
National
Inventors Hall of Fame
Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institute
Why
Files (the science behind the news)
Spanish Language Resources en Espanol
CNN en Espanol
FirstGov
en Espanol
MedlinePlus
en Espanol
Mundo Latino
Periodicos en Espanol
Verizon Superpages en Espanol
(Directorio telefónico en línea con mapas, páginas
amarillas, y más)
Wikepedia en Espanol
(la enciclopedia libre)
Yahoo en Espanol
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Official Site
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Hiking and Walking
Recreation.gov
(recreation information from the federal government)
Tax Forms
Federal Tax Forms
RI
Tax Forms
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AnyWho (contains a reverse lookup
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Canada 411
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Mapquest
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(Boston)
Rhode Island Public
Transit Authority
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Green (PVD) Airport
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Weather Service
Weather Channel
Weather Underground
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