State and Local Government
Federal Government
- Federal Tax Forms - A searchable index of tax forms and other information about the IRS.
- GovEngine -- Federal - A directory for nearly every office and agency of the federal government.
Other State Governments
- GovEngine -- State & Local - A directory for state and local governments across the nation.
- Other State Tax Forms
Legal Information
- American Law Sources on line
- The Code of Federal Regulations
- Cornell Univ. Legal Info Institute
- Divorce Central - Includes a handy list of divorce law state by state.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- FindLaw
- Frequently Asked Legal Questions (VT) - Fact sheet for questions about Vermont law.
- ID Theft Center
- Identity Theft
- Immigration law at Siskind, Susser, Haas & Chang
- Internet Legal Resource Guide - A good index to legal web sites for both professionals and lay persons.
- JURIST: The Law Professors' Network - A good starting point for anyone doing legal research on the Web, with especially useful sections on legal news. The Reference Desk, which gathers directories, dictionaries, and links to major legal research sites is another fine feature.
- LawCrawler - A search engine of legal information, includes U.S. Code, U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, international law sites, and legal news.
- Legal Advice from FreeAdvice.com - Legal advice Web site.
- Martindale-Hubbell - The most comprehensive database of lawyers in the US.
- National Center for Victims of Crime
- National Domestic Violence Hotline Website
- National Fraud Information Center
- Paul Donovan's Legal Reference Resources for Public Librarians
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
- Supreme Court Opinions
- United States Code
- U.S. Department of Justice
- U.S.House of Representatives Internet Law Library
- Vermont Statutes
Legal dictionaries & directories
Legal sites for non-lawyers
- Court TV Law Center
- FindLaw - Internet Legal Resources
- Nolo Home Page
Copyright Issues
Leisure (See also Events (Local) & Local Resources & Recreation
Crafts & Activities
For the Fun of It
- AdFlip.com - Vintage print ads from the 40s through the present. A waltz down memory lane. (1/2004)
- Easter Eggs in Software Games Web Sites at EggHeaven2000! - Find Easter eggs (little messages from the developers) in all sort of software programs.
- American Precision Museum, Windsor - The world's machine tooling industry began in Windsor, Vermont. This site celebrates this heritage.
Museums
- Fairbanks Museum
- Montshire Museum, Norwich, VT - A hands-on museum with dozens of exhibits relating to the natural and physical sciences, ecology, and technology. Norwich is off exit 13 of I-91 (Windsor is between exits 8 and 9.)
- St. Johnsbury Athenaeum Art Gallery
Music
- Andante - Classical music site, with access to many databases, called by the New York Times the "gold standard" of classical music web sites. What's available: Concise Grove Dictionary of Music; Compositions Database (comprehensive list of over 180,000 classical compositions); Discography Database; Concert Notes; New York Review of Books (classical music coverage from 1963, Full-Text); Einaudi Encyclopedia of Music; Interactive Musical Event Calendar; Music In Print (searchable listing of classical sheet music in and out of print, including instrumentation and duration listings)
Reading Indexes, Lists, and Resources
- Bartleby - The granddaddy of online, full-text reading, and not just classic fiction, verse, and nonfiction. Find all kinds of reference books (dictionaries, encyclopedias, language guides, etc.)
- Book Forager (Adult/Young Adult) (Java) - A fun book-finding tool. Set your arrows right where you want them on Happy-to-Sad, Safe-to-Frightening, Gentle-to-Violent spectrums (and several others), and let Book Forager find titles to match. It loads a Java Applet, which may or may not run on later editions of Internet Explorer (litigation pending).
- Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database - Excellent source of information regarding Art, Literature, and the Performing Arts as they relate to medical humanities studies. (NYU School of Medicine)
- The Online Books Page - Maintained at the University of Pennsylvania, this is an excellent index of online books, as well as news, features, and archive resources. Don't let the "plain vanilla" interface fool you. There's gold in these pages.
- American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults
- Bibliomania - Fun for book lovers.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award (Ages 8-14) - Thirty books, fiction and nonfiction, are selected by a special Vermont panel each year for kids in grades 4-8 to read and study throughout the year. Then they vote for their favorite in March. This site has the latest list, and several from past years.
- The Pulitzer Prizes - Everything you always wanted to know about the Pulitzers!
- Arts & Letters Daily - Compendium of links to newspapers, magazines and journals, book reviews, articles, essays, editorials, news services, columnists, literary criticism, and 'amusements' in every area of the humanities. An excellent find for those of us enamored of the written word.
- Boston College Libraries
- Center for the Book in the Library of Congress
- Cobleigh Public Library -- Lyndonville
- Dartmouth College Library Catalog
- Green Mountain College Library
- Howe Library, Hanover NH
- Internet Public Library
- LibDex - Worldwide index of library catalogues, web sites and Friends of Libraries pages.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- Library Catalogs and Other Databases Worldwide
- Library of Congress
- Library of Congress Online Catalog - Look up just about any book here, to find out bibliographic information on it.
- LibrarySpot - The best libraries, newspapers, encyclopedias, maps and more in one Spot. Good general library site.
- Libweb - Library WWW Servers - From Berkeley Digital Library's SunSITE comes this exhaustive index to libraries on the WEB worldwide. Search by location, library type, name, or other information.
- Lyndon State College Library
- Marlboro College Library
- Middlebury College Library & Information Services
- National Archives & Records Administration
- National Library of Canada
- New Hampshire Public Libraries
- New Hampshire State Library
- New York Public Library
- Norwich University Library Catalog
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries - Tools for researchers: gateways to Smithsonian exhibitions in science, industry, technology, art, design, and American discovery.
- St. Michael's College Library
- State Library Websites - ALA's list of links to state library and school librarian association web sites.
- Sterling College Library
- University of Vermont libraries
- Vermont Center for the Book
- Vermont Department of Libraries
- Vermont Public Libraries Home Pages
- VSAC Library
- WWW Virtual Library
- PFLAG - Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Persons