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Selected Sites
Internet Sites of Interest
- Community Websites
- Find links to schools, local government, and community organizations.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Storybooks Online
- A delightful site featuring nothing but stories. Grouped by age interest level.
- 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.
- Thebestkidsbooksite.com
- An interactive website for kids where books, crafts, podcasts, online video, and web resources intersect.
- Capwiz
- Set up by the Illinois Library Association, this web site provides contact information and more for your federal, state, and local government officials.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Internal Revenue Service
- Download federal tax forms
- Illinois Department of Revenue
- Illinois tax forms and information
- Missouri Department of Revenue
- Access to Missouri tax forms and information
- Illinois.gov
- Office website of Illinois government
- Illinois History
- After 56 years in print, the magazine Illinois History is now only available on-line. But access is free to all!
- Illinois State Archives IRAD System
- Access to online databases and lists of holdings for each county in Illinois.
- 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.
