Library Resources


The Harding Academy Outside Reading List 2007-2008



Consumer Search

Consumer Search is a one-stop site for product reviews. In hundreds of categories, such as washing machines, minivans, backpacks, and photo-editing software, Consumer Search collates reviews from different sources, including Consumer Reports. Each category includes “Reviewing the Reviews,” which lists and evaluates the quality of each of the reviewing sources. The “Fast Answers” section lists the most-recommended products, and “Full Story” summarizes the reviewing sources.

The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture

Welcome to the online edition of the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, a definitive and comprehensive reference work on the Volunteer State cosponsored by the University of Tennessee Press and the Tennessee Historical Society.

Bartleby Online Books

The Preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing students, researchers, and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web free of charge.

Government Documents

Provides free, public online access to full-text official Federal information.

Evaluating Web Pages

Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops

ThinkQuest


Search Engines


Vivisimo

Slightly more comprehensive in classifying sites

AltaVista's Image Search

Searches for images


Search Directories


Dewey Browse

Arranges websites according to their Dewey number

Infomine

Offers over 110,000 academically useful sites -- from the University of California, Riverside

Internet Public Library

Maintained by the University of Michigan's Library Science school

Librarians Index to the Internet

From the Berkeley Public Library