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Art/Music
Arts and Crafts
Business/Finance
Collectibles
Computers
Consumer Information
Education
Genealogy
Government/Politics/Law
Health/Medical
History/Geography
Holidays
How to Information
Job /Careers
Language
Literature
Media on the Web
Michigan
Museums/Zoos
PotPourri
Religion/Philosophy
Science
Social Issues
Sports and Games
Transportation
Travel
Welcome to the Eastpointe Memorial Library's 
World Wide Web Launch Site.
Select any of the links to begin your Internet search.


Search the Web: Search Engines
These pages have similar categories of information. Since they use different methods of searching, however, you should try more than one of them if you fail to find the information you seek on the first attempt.
AltaVista: Main Page
Includes travel & people finder.

Education World (tm) Search Engine
Includes curriculum, education news, schools & lesson plans.

Galaxy
Organized by people rather than computers makes this search engine user friendly. Galaxy provides relevant information on a wide variety of topics.

Google
Searchable by keyword or topic, this search engine can be filtered simply by clicking on the safesearch link.

Lycos
Includes direct links to other search engines.
 
Metacrawler
Searches several sites at once using key words.

Search.com
Link to various search engines.

Sounds
This search engine provides links to all kinds of sounds.  From animals to vehicles, find a sound for just about anything.

WebCrawler Searching
Like most of the others, has links to travel and maps

Yahoo
The most popular of the search engines.


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Find It Fast: Ready Reference on the Net
Americom Long Distance Area Decoder
A lookup service by area, city, county.

Ask Jeeves
Ask a question in simple English and "Jeeves" takes you to a site that answers the question.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Search for quotations by author or key words.

BigBook
A national Yellow Pages.

Information Please Almanac
Covers almanacs, encyclopedia and dictionary published by Information Please.

Library Spot
Library and reference sites together with editorials on subjects.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Dictionary and thesaurus online, plus information on language.

Nupedia
What makes this free online encyclopedia different is that articles are sent in by anyone interested in writing an article.

Official US Time
Find out the time in minutes and seconds for your area of the U.S.
 
Switchboard
Find people and businesses.

Thor: The virtual reference desk
Collection of ready reference materials from the Libraries of Purdue University.

Times Around the World
Find out the time anywhere in the world.

United States Postal Service
Information about postal services, including ZIP codes.

Virtual Reference Desk
Collection of research information.

Worldwide Telephone Directories
This online directory will assist you in finding telephone numbers for anyone living in Europe, Australia or anywhere else in the world.

Yahoo! People Search
Find address and phone number.

Yahoo Reference
Various links to a wide range of subjects.

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Virtual Libraries: Internet Catalogs
about.com
500 expert guides mining the net on thousands of topics.

Argus Clearinghouse
Miniguide to the web.

The Big Eye
Carefully selected links to arts, science, history, news, weather, finance, insight and commentary.

DMOZ
Open web directory organized by volunteers.

Internet Public Library
Provides library services on the Internet.

Librarian's Index to the Internet (LII)
Selected and annotated subject directory to over 4,000 Internet sites.

Michigan Electronic Library
Links to over 20,000 resources grouped into 14 major subject areas, selected and evaluated by librarians across the country.

Northern Light
Includes websites, news articles and special collections.

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Be sure to use the "Search the Web Contents"
to get to information on the other "Web Search" pages.

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Eastpointe MI 48021
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Fax (586) 775-0150

 

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Closed Sundays

These hours will be in effect throughout the year.

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