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Community Websites: Find links to schools, local government, and community organizations.
22books: 22books will allow you to quickly create book lists of any type. You can make comments on books in your list, and embed your lists in other websites.
Blippr: Blippr is a website where you can add short reviews of 160 characters or less of books, movies, music, games, and applications. You can connect your account to many other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook where you can continue your conversations.
BookCoverArchive: The Book Cover Archive is a collection of over 1,000 book covers categorized and browsable by designers, authors, titles, art directors, photographers, illustrators, and more. Readers can leave comments on covers and can suggest entries.
BookGlutton: BookGlutton is a social community where you can read public domain books and discuss them with groups. Members can annotate books and make their comments public for discussions or keep them private. You can even upload your own books.
BookJetty: BookJetty is a social cataloging app that will let you set up a bookshelf of titles you own or want and then easily search for them in your local library with a click. Amazon and other booklists can be imported for quick startup.
BookSprouts: BookSprouts is a website where you can join and create book clubs. Members can vote on which book to read next, have book discussions in forums, post book reviews, and hold meetings.
Capwiz: Set up by the Illinois Library Association, this web site provides contact information and more for your federal, state, and local government officials.
Chronicling America: Chronicling America is a free, national, searchable database of historic American newspaper pages published between 1880 and 1922. Newspapers are constantly being added.
DeadFred.com: Search a photo archive database that contains more than 90,000 identified and mystery photographs for genealogy enthusiasts. The site also contains a smaller database of school yearbooks or annuals.
Digital Newspaper Collection from the U of I: Includes the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection, Farm, Field and Fireside Collection, and the Collegiate Chronicle.
FantasticFiction: This website includes bibliographies for over 20,000 authors and information on over 270,000 books.
FEMA: Flood information offered by FEMA
Fueleconomy.gov: Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, this website features updated fuel economy data for new and used passenger vehicles dating back to 1985, allows side-by-side vehicle comparisons, and offers fuel-saving tips.
Goodreads.com: Keep track of what you've read and share recommendations with other members of this book lovers' community.
Gurulib: Gurulib is a social cataloging program which lets members organize their book, movie, music, game, and software collections. The site allows members to use their webcams as barcode readers to scan in items. Items be loaned out and members can track borrowed titles.
HighlightsKids.com: HighlightsKids.com is a free website where kids can read story books, play games, and learn about science online. Also featured are interactive online games to accompany those found in the Highlights Kids magazine.
IGI: Illinois Government Information: The Illinois Government Information (IGI) search engine is a joint project of the Illinois State Library and the University of Illinois, providing search capabilities across the state government websites of Illinois.
IllinoisAtlas.com: IllinoisAtlas.com is an ongoing project of the Data & Mapping Services Division of the Regional Development Institute at Northern Illinois University. The Data & Mapping Services Division has been creating computer generated maps since the early 1990's. Rather than maintaining these maps in digital archives alone, we felt that it would be more useful to us and to the public if we made these maps available on the Internet.
Illinois.gov: Office website of Illinois government
Illinois Authors Wiki: A comprehensive resource for information on authors, photographers and illustrators who have published books, lived in Illinois or written about Illinois.
Illinois Department of Revenue: Illinois tax forms and information
Illinois Harvest: Illinois Harvest is a free public gateway combining search, aggregation, and discovery services. We provide organized and thematic access to digitized and born-digital resources about Illinois, created by Illinois scholars, or included among the digital collections of The University of Illinois Library.
Illinois History: After 56 years in print, the magazine Illinois History is now only available on-line. But access is free to all!
Illinois Periodicals Online: Look here for entire articles from magazines whose focus is Illinois. Some of the titles included are Illinois Country Living, Illinois Heritage, Illinois History: A Magazine for Young People, Illinois History Teacher, Illinois Issues, Illinois Municipal Review, Illinois Parks & Recreation, Outdoor Illinois, Point of View, and Prairie Farmer.
IllinoisPublicRecord.com: A comprehensive resource for finding public record information by county, with important links to government websites and other state agencies to assist individuals with locating vital records, genealogy archives, court record documents, and other public record searches.
Illinois State Archives IRAD System: Access to online databases and lists of holdings for each county in Illinois.
Internal Revenue Service: Download federal tax forms
Internet Public Library: The Internet Public Library (IPL) is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment founded at the University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology.
Internetpubliclibrary.org Kidspace: The Internet Public Library (IPL) is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment founded at the University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology. This section of the website is dedicated just to resources for kids.
Library Loft: A website that is designed to engage teens in library events and service, promote life-long learning, encourage creativity and self-expression, and empower young adults by providing them with the tools and information that will help them lead successful lives.
Light Up Your Brain and Sound Stories: The Light Up Your Brain and Sound Stories Web sites offer downloadable audio versions of popular fairy tales and storybooks. Available as MP3 files, those stories can be enjoyed in the classroom listening center, car, or family room. A wide variety of titles, including such classics as Peter Rabbit, Rapunzel, and The Emperor's New Clothes, make these sites a no-cost alternative to books on tape.
Listal: This social cataloging website enables members to catalog books, movies, TV shows, video games, DVDs, and music. Members can loan their items, import and export their catalogs, and create favorite lists that others can comment on.
Literature-Map.com: Enter the name of a favorite author and you'll get a display of writers' names, with your pick at the center. The idea: The closer a name sits to your favorite, the greater the likelihood that you'll enjoy that author's work.
Missouri Department of Revenue: Access to Missouri tax forms and information
Novelaction.com: With this online swap, simply make your selections and, in exchange for an equivalent number of used books (plus a minimal shipping fee), the "new" books are delivered to your door. Repeat as often as you wish.
Paperback Swap: PaperBack Swap is a community hub for trading your paperbacks, hardbacks, audiobooks, and textbooks with others. Members can easily mail books as the site provides exact postage labels which can be printed out. Once a book is mailed, you can request one for yourself from the cache of over 3 million titles available.
St. Clair County Legal Aid Center: An internet-based legal self-help center to assist lower income people who need to represent themselves in court in civil matters. The center provides legal information on Illinois law including legal pleadings, videos, and other information to help self-represented litigants learn more about how to handle their own legal problems.
SILC: Statewide Illinois Library Catalog: The Statewide Illinois Library Catalog, known as SILC, is Illinois' first all inclusive statewide union catalog that integrates WorldCat and the Illinois Library Systems' local consortial OPACs, to provide both shelf status and interlibrary loan capabilities in a single searchable interface. SILC resides on the familiar FirstSearch platform as an additional WorldCat database that allows users to scope to regional groups within Illinois, as well as by type of library. From a single WorldCat record, users will be able to link to a local shared catalog record to see if and where an item is available for loan.
Social Security Retirement Estimator: Information on planning your retirement
Southwestern Illinois Flood Prevention Initiative: This site has information on every facet of flood prevention as it impacts our regions and our citizens.
Starfall: Starfall is a free online program designed to help children learn to read. This site contains a series of animated interactive storybooks at beginning, intermediate, and advanced reading levels.
Storybooks Online: A delightful site featuring nothing but stories. Grouped by age interest level.
Storylineonline.net: An online streaming video program featuring SAG members reading childrens books aloud! Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas. Sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
Storyplace.org: The ultimate children's digital library. Explore pages full of stories and activities for children young and old.
Storytimeforme.com: A free online children’s book library with over 30 books and growing by the month.
Thebestkidsbooksite.com: An interactive website for kids where books, crafts, podcasts, online video, and web resources intersect.
THOMAS (Library of Congress): In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, legislative information from the Library of Congress.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration: The FDA's website to keep updated on food and drug safety.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services - Genealogy: The federal government has opened the immigration files of millions of refugees, war brides, "enemy aliens" and other foreign nationals in the USA in the first half of the 20th century. Go here for information on obtaining these records.
Whatshouldireadnext.com: When you have turned the last page and don't have another title waiting in the wings, type in the name of a book you enjoyed and you'll receive a list of similar suggestions.
YALit.com: Your guide to current and upcoming young adult books.

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