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The Library, your gateway to adventure, excitement and learning . . .These are other libraries on the web. Many provide research links, information about books, help finding rare books and more.


Ask Now
  AskNow provides immediate and reliable information from librarians throughout California 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The librarian will be able to "chat" with you in real time and send you Web pages via your browser while you are talking. The Sacramento Public Library participates in this valuable network.
   
Library of Congress
    
Home page of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 120 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 18 million books, 2.5 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.5 million maps, and 54 million manuscripts.
   
Internet Public Library
  A public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. This site provides organized resources for information on the web. A great place to start your web research. Includes sections for all age groups with special sections for kids and teens.
   
The British Library
  Get a perspective from across the "pond". Use this site to search their catalogues, view exhibitions and link to information resources worldwide. The British Library is the UK's leading research library.
   
Sacramento Public Library
  Click here to go to the Sacramento Library siteInformation and resources from our own public library system. This site has information about the Sacramento Public library system. You can review your account, look at their catalog, check out internet resources, even reserve a computer online.
   
U.S. National Library of Medicine
  Click here to go to the NLM siteThe world's largest medical library.
   
Librarian's Index to the Internet
  The mission of Librarians' Index to the Internet is to provide a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources, serving California, the nation, and the world. This is a site like many search sites, except with the backing and organization of librarians from California and Washington state. Sites are reviewed by these professionals before they go live.s
   
The Library Company of Philadelphia
 

A circulating library founded in 1732 by Benjamin Franklin. They have electronic resources including:

  • Accessible Resources
    Selected 18th & 19th Century American Periodicals and Newspapers
  • Evans Digital Edition, 1639-1800
    Early American Imprints.
  • Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875
    Nineteenth-Century American Fiction.

These include full-text searching of these resources.

   
Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
  A network of over 3,700 children's and youth librarians, children's literature experts, and publishers committed to improving and ensuring the future of the nation through exemplary library service to children, their families, and others who work with children.
   
Carrie: Full-Text Library Online
  Links to various research resources online.
   

Know of other great library, homework, and book sites on the web? Drop by the library and let us know!
A Note to Parents

Many of the links in this section take students off the SHPS website to other websites. Although we examine sites before posting them and make every effort to assure that the linked sites are appropriate to the age groups for which we recommend them, we do not control these sites and cannot be responsible for the content on these sites or links to other sites.

Note that, even on age-appropriate sites, not all information may be appropriate for your children. Please be aware of the sites that you children visit and the information that they view and apply appropriate standards for your children.