Library - Recommended Web Sites

Search the Internet

• Best Search Tools
• Best Search Tools Comparison Chart
• Search Engine Watch
  
  

Subject Directories

• The Best Information on the Net (BIOTN): Important Sites by Major Field of Study
  
• Internet Public Library
  
• Librarians' Internet Index
  
• L.A.P.L.'s Guide to the Web

Local Libraries

• Los Angeles Public Library
  
• County of Los Angeles Public Library
  
• California State University Northridge (CSUN)
  
• Los Angeles County Law Library
  
• List of Local Libraries (phone numbers, addresses, and hours)

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Almanacs & Quick Information

• Country Studies/Area Handbooks
  
• CountryWatch
  
• Dictionaries, Almanacs, & Quick Information

Computer and Internet Tutorials

• Typing - Learn touch typing
  
• Mouserobics - Hands-on mouse tutorials
  
• Free self-paced training courses for Office programs - Online tutorials for Windows XP, Microsoft Office and more.
  
• Learn the Net
  
• Internet Tutorials

Faculty Resources

• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
  [by Elizabeth E. Kirk, John Hopkins University Library]
  
• Copyright & Fair Use
  [from Stanford University Libraries]
  
• Plagiarism detection service for authors and education
  
• The Best Information on the Net (BIOTN): Faculty Resources
  [from St. Ambrose University Library]
  
• The World Lecture Hall
  Links by subject to faculty contributed Web pages throughout the world [from University of Texas at Austin]
  
• Assessing Student Learning
• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
  Provides access to over a million citations and 107,000 full-text journal and non-journal documents in education.
  
• California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office
  
• California Community Colleges Foundation
  
• Community College League of California