nother portal to check out

Wordsmith.org

I have recently come across another interesting portal service that some others here may wish to take a look at:

http://Libraryspot.com

They also port to an associated trawl of all the news on the web:
http://www.headlinespot.com

Here�s what they say about their service overall:
About LibrarySpot.com
Simplifying the Search for the Best Library and Reference Resources on the Web
Welcome to LibrarySpot.com, a free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information. Thanks for stopping by! We hope that you find LibrarySpot.com to be a useful, engaging and invaluable resource for online research.

We created LibrarySpot.com to break through the information overload of the Web and bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one user-friendly spot. Sites featured on LibrarySpot.com are hand-selected and reviewed by our editorial team for their exceptional quality, content and utility.
Published by StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc. in the Northwestern University/Evanston Research Park in Evanston, Ill., LibrarySpot.com is the first in a family of vertical information portals designed to make finding the best topical information on the Internet a quick, easy and enjoyable experience.

To date, LibrarySpot.com has received more than 30 awards and honors. Most recently, Forbes.com selected LibrarySpot.com as a "Forbes Favorite" site, the best in the reference category, and PC Magazine named it one of the Top 100 Web Sites. LibrarySpot.com has been featured on CNN, Good Morning America, CNBC and in many other media outlets.

� Each month, we send out a free e-mail newsletter filled with the latest and greatest library and reference resources.

Just at the right moment, mav - I am teaching an intensive week of study skills this week - and we finsh up by looking at the web as a resource. This seems to be spot on.

Many thanks

EDIT: I was werkin here. Now I'm not.

http://www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm

Oh dear. Had I not let everyone know about this one months ago? I really thought I had, especially after wow posted another one I've been quietly using for months/years.

The only downside is that it's a bit "merkin" for my liking. Trying picking "academic reference libraries" and see what you get.

"The only downside is that it's a bit "merkin" for my liking. "

Dear CK: may you taste a menstrual pubic wig.

Calm down, Bill. Really, I should, if I were you.

CapitalKi: What is the one you've been quietly using for months that wow posted? Would you list it here if it's not already in this thread? I have to put together a course in Internet research for this summer and would appreciate any links to add to what I've gathered--although I sure lost many when my computer crashed yesterday.

I remember dictionary.com. Others I may have mentioned include:

http://www.biblomania.com/

http://www.islandnet.com/~egbird/dict/

http://www.awpi.com/Combs/Shaggy/index.html

http://www.bartleby.com/

http://latin.about.com/

http://www.concordance.com/cgi-bin/begnr.pl

There are dozens of the damned things, but a lot of them are on my laptop which is currently in the more-or-less caring hands of Compaq.

...hands of Compaq. I hoped you kissed it good bye before you let it go...

Thanks, CapK. This may become the thread WW and I'd hoped it'd be, yet.

I hoped you kissed it good bye before you let it go...

Well, given that the hard disk drive and/or power supply appear to have completely given up the ghost, the kiss of life would have been the most appropriate. Couldn't find the appropriate orifice - or didn't recognise it if I did. I leave that kind of thing to the more physiologically unchallenged members of the board ...

Capital K: I can commiserate... My laptop is also in the hands of Compaq with all the graduate work I've done this fall on the desktop. I do not expect the technicians to save the work once they get the blooming thing to work again even though I wrote them a special request. I can hear them laughing out loud as they read my little note:

"Please try to save all the work on the desktop. It represents all of my studies this fall."

They'll rub their hands together, laugh ghoulishly, and draw straws for who gets to dump it first.

Anyway, thanks for the links. Sorry that your computer's in the shop.

WW

Rhuby and DubDub--just a reminder, for your study guides:
go to Max's site--it has LOTS of great links!