This article on the OEDB site,Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources, lists 119 useful Web sites. I thought that this might be worth passing along to share. The article organizes the sites into the following categories:

Deep Web Search Engines
Art
Books Online
Business
Consumer
Economic and Job Data
Finance and Investing
General Research
Government Data
International
Law and Politics
Library of Congress
Medical and Health
Science
Transportation

[Thanks to Stephen Cohen at LibraryStuff for this link.]

For several decades, college students (people of all ages, really) have been enchanted by the work of Allen Ginsberg. This NPR story, After 50 Years, Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ Still Resonates, discusses a bit of the history behind Ginsberg’s ground breaking peom Howl.

The Moraine Valley library holds several collections of Ginsberg’s works. We also hold several items about Ginsberg’s life and work.

The library’s Mas Ultra database has a link for biographies. So, if you search for a person’s name, then click on the “biography” link at the top of the search results, you can find short bios of a range of people.

For instance, here is a search for Biographies of Marcus Garvey (need MVCC ID for off campus access).

These results are often short and very general from basic reference sources such as Britannica or the Dictionary of American Biography.

Introducing Pakistan
“Basic facts and figures about Pakistan, from the Pakistan government. Covers history, geography, government structure, leaders, symbols, sports, and other topics. Provides data on population, economy and industry, energy, health services, education, transportation, geographical features (such as mountain peaks and passes), and more. From the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Pakistan.” Citation from LII.org

You may also want to take a look at the library’s books, videos and DVDs about Pakistan.