Of interest to kids:

• www.HomeworkKansas.org Live Homework Help-free online tutoring Grades 4-12 and college intro
• National Geographic Kids The Port Library also gets a subscription to this.
• Time for Kids
• Sports Illustrated for Kids
• Smithsonian Magazine for Kids

 

Reference materials:

• Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
• Bartlett's Quotations
• Geography: USGS maps
• Census Bureau Gazetteer
• U.S. Postal Service ZIP+4 Lookup
• FreePatentsOnline.com Provides free patent searching of US and European patents.

 

Search  Engines

• Google
• Yahoo
• Dogpile
• Clusty
• Answers.com
• OneLook Dictionary search.

 

Kansas

• Blue Skyways Home page for Kansas
• Where Is . . . ?
• Kansas Library Catalog
• Access Kansas
• Kansas State Historical Society
• Kansas Library Card
• State Library of Kansas - Will need a Kansas Library Card for services listed below
  • Chilton's Auto Repair online - has printable diagrams for selected makes and models.
  • Consumer Reports Magazine online - reviews go back 10 years.  This is through Gale Academic OneFile database.  Search for publication title in the database to access the backfiles online.

 

Bookstores and book searching

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Book Browser
• Publisher's Weekly
• Fantastic Fiction Search almost any series by series name, author, or title.

 

Genealogy

• Cyndi's List
• State Historical Society
• USGenWeb Project
• USGenWeb Project-Kansas