MPLS Staff Bookmarks

Search engines to try. See also below under Librarians' guide...

• Answers (great for definitions)
• ANZWERS (Australian content)
• Jux2
• Mamma
• Searchengines.com
• Sensis Search engine (Australian content)
• Teoma/Ask
• Vicnet
• WebWombat (Australian)

Book Guides

• Genreflecting
• Fiction Connection (Global Books in Print)
• CMIS Focus on Fiction:Which Book
• Magpies Children's Book Site (passworded:staff only:apply to Youth Team)
• Tumblebook Library

Book Prizes & Lists

• (Australian) Children's Book Awards
• AwardWeb: Collections of Literary Award Information
• Banned Books Online

Book Shops & Book Finding Aids

• Amazon.com
• Angus & Robertson
• Biblioz.com
• Borders Books
• Bowker's GlobalbooksinPrint.com (TM)
• Dymocks Online
• Google Book Search
• seekBOOKS.com.au, Books From Around The World

Business and legal bookmarks collected by Reference Team

• Monash Public Library Business/Government/Legal Links
• Choice magazine (Staff must log on in the members' boxes to view full-text)
• Complaining to the right person/body in Victoria: An A-Z pdf guide with contact details for where and to whom to complain in Victoria for specific matters.

Business Matters

• Australian Business Register - Business Entry Point
• Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)
• Annotated list of Business sites

Education

• Cliff notes (portal website)
• Sparknotes (free study guides)
• Sofweb (Victorian Govt. Education)
• VCE Studies (VCAT site)

Email Sites

• Hotmail - The World's FREE Web-based E-mail
• Yahoo - Free web-based email
• Gmail
• Fastmail

Entertainment

• Entertainment News Australia
• The Age Entertainment Online
• Entertainment Nine MSN

Environment

• Energy Rating for Appliances
• EPA Victoria
• Environment Victoria
• Greywater: Laundry soap discussion and Results Report

Games and sports

• Australian Football League
• Football Federation of Australia
• Australian Institute of Sport
• Olympic Games 2008 Beijing
• Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi
• Winter Olympics 2010 Vancouver
• Confederation of Australian Motor Sport
• Cricket Australia
• Crossword Solver from AllWords.com
• Miniclip (Free online games)
• Racing Victoria (horse racing)

Geography

• CIA World Fact Book
• Flags of the World
• Asia Society

Government Departments

• Australian Cultural Sector Grants and Services Database
• Australia. Government Entry Point
• Australia. Department of the Treasury
• Victoria. Government Entry Point
• Victoria. Department of Sustainability and Environment
• Complaining to the right person/body in Victoria: An A-Z pdf guide with contact details for where and to whom to complain in Victoria for specific matters.

Health

• Better Health Channel
• Health Translations Directory

Jobs

• The Australian Local Government Job Directory
• Seek.com.au
• Education Times: Jobs
• Career One
• My Career
• Graduate careers
• OZJAC Courses & Careers

Librarians Guides to the Internet | Search Engines

• Welcome to Victoria's Virtual Library
• Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
• Keyword search on Infotrac
• Librarians' Index to the Internet
• SLV Ref Support_Public Libraries only

Newspapers

• Newspaper lists for all the world

Phone Books

• White Pages online
• Yellow Pages online

Real Estate

• Consumer Information - Real Estate Institute of Victoria
• Homebound.com
• Domain
• Realestate.com.au

Religion

• Saints and angels
• The Vatican
• Judaism 101 (Jewish encyclopedia)
• Judaism and Jewish resources
• Muslim-answers.org
• Islamicity
• Online religion database

Other Specific Topics

• ACMI: Aust. Centre for the Moving Image
• Australian Dictionary of Biography online
• Bissonnette on Costume: A visual Dictionary of Fashion
• Choice magazine (Staff must log on in the members' boxes to view full-text)
• Energy Rating for Appliances
• HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!
• World Rulers: Kings, Presidents, Prime Ministers of the World

Tools

• Dictionary.com
• Whereis (Australian places/street search)
• Wikipedia (Free encyclopedia)
• XE.com - The Universal Currency Converter ®