Provides descriptions of household and high-interest products, step-by-step descriptions of manufacturing processes, and sidebars with additional information. Covers for each entry: why there was a need, who invented it, how it is made, what it is made of, and how it works. Includes photographs, illustrations and line drawings, and a glossary of definitions.

 Provides full-text coverage on a broad range of topics, including health, business, and US states and territories, from nearly 2,000 magazines and newspapers. Full-text articles are available as far back as 1975 for some titles.

Part of the Gale Directory Library, The Encyclopedia of Associations is a comprehensive source of detailed information on over 159,000 nonprofit membership organizations worldwide.

Contains 8,000 to 12,000 word essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing religions, holidays, customs, and languages in addition to providing information on historical background and settlement patterns.

 General OneFile, formerly known as InfoTrac, is a collection of citations and/or the full text for articles dating back to 1980 from magazines, newspapers, professional journals, law reviews reference sources, pamphlets, and newswire services.

Guide to Reference is a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline. An editorial team of reference librarians and subject experts have selected and annotated some 16,000 entries, both print and web-based, free and subscription. Users in libraries subscribing to Guide to Reference can set up a profile to create and save lists and notes to use in their reference and research work.

 Brings together information from both sides of social issues, such as Gun Control, Genetic Engineering, Censorship, Endangered Species, and Terrorism.

Over the past 100 years, Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature has become the ultimate index of subjects in the popular press.

An overview of the Ask a Librarian virtual reference services at the Richland County Public Library. Have questions? You can call, e-mail, IM and text message a librarian!

Provides a searchable database of abbreviations and acronyms on a variety of subjects. Search for abbreviations and acronyms about computers, technology, telecommunications, as well as military acronyms and abbreviations.

Provides a searchable database that contains over 86,000 classic and contemporary quotations.

Allows browsing for holiday information by date, country and religion. The Earth Calendar is a non-profit website that allows browsing for holidays by date, country, and religion. This site also has a listing of the full moons and eclipses for the current year.

Has librarian selected Internet resources that are arranged by subject and contain accurate information.

Searches over 800 online dictionaries for definitions and translations.

Gives not only synonyms and antonyms for words, but also links to dictionaries, puzzles, and a translator for text. 

Is the official United States Gateway to government information, services and resources. Federal information online resources are arranged by categories, then subcategories, to direct you to individual federal websites, local and tribal government, and foreign nations.  

Provides an organized list and a searchable database of General Humanities resources that are on the World Wide Web.