Links just to have Links
This practice page will be deleted in April 2008
Just for fun
- RocWiki - Rochester Wiki: the People's guide to Rochester, New York. This site is continually updated, expanded, and improved by people in Rochester, NY because they want to share what they love or loathe about their city.
- IMDB - This site will tell you the name of the book that a movie is based on.
- NYSLAA - New York State Library Assistants' Association. Check it out!
- ALA - American Library Association - still organizing librarians
- Alibris - Book reseller; find good deals here
- eBay - a site to sell and buy "stuff"
- Gizmodo - the gadget guide with the motto, "So much in love with shiny new toys, it's unnatural"
- Librarything - a cool place to catalog your books.
- Weather - find out what the weather is
- Switchboard - find phone numbers
- Map sites - link to a page of map sites
- NYS Summer Reading Program - Check out the NYS Summer Reading Program
- NYS Lottery - to see if we won the lotto
- Universal Currency Converter- international currency rates
- Microsoft Website - A "not very helpful" website where a single person monopolizes the world of computing
- Cheap Books - Great for Book Clubs
- ROCDOCS - local data and information for Rochester
- Googlezon - Googlezon
- Typographica - a great site for those who love type and typography
- Rochester Cares - a site for volunteer opportunities here in Rochester
- value of a dollar for different years
- drudgereport.com - to see how the other third thinks
- Teen Book Festival Live - the site for third annual GREATer Rochester Teen Book Festival
- wegmans-recipes,cooking techniques and menu ideas
- D&C Blogs - blogs from D&C staff and community bloggers
- consumer reviews - find reviews of items before you buy
- http://www.bibliophil.org/default.php - a place to keep a record of the books you've read
- Strong National Museum of Play - one of my favorite places to be with or without kids
- Unshelved - a clever comic strip about libraries and the rest of the world
- No Flying, No Tights - an outstanding resource for librarians and manga and graphic novel lovers of all ages!
- Rochester Roots - a great community program working with the city schools and supporting local agriculture!
- Kids Place - The MCLS website for children
- www.shutterfly.com A place to share photos, print them out and send to friends or home.
- It's Storytime! - One of my favorite places to look for Story Hour themes and ideas.
- www.kayak.com -A travel search engine."Since we search hundreds of travel websites (including online travel agency sites), you now have to search only one."
- lff.org Libraries for the Future is an organization that seeks to pull libraries and communities together.
- snopes.com please check out this site to verify any e-mails you may receive about anything that you are just not quite sure about like Obama being a Muslim,forwarding e-mails to get money from Applebees or Microsoft, missing children etc.
- The American Kennel Club -everything you need to know about selecting, caring for and owning a purebred dog
- cnn.com keep up with the latest world news minute by minute
- libraryweb.org - Monroe County Library's webpage for all current new/events/information
- tametheweb.com-Michael Stephen's interesting blog on tech in libraries
- Picturing Books: a website about picture books - excellent resource about children's picture books, including explanations of artistic media, how to evaluate a picture book, lists of wordless picture books, and much, much more
- Bristol Moutain in the Democrat and Chronicle - this article details the great news that Bristol Mountain now has snowmaking on their nordic ski trails too.
- Sara Gruen - For books by the author Sara Gruen including Water for Elephants
- Cornell Cooperative Extension - Youth development, agriculture, horticulture, and nutrition, food safety and health
- NYS Prescription Drug Prices- Check local pharmacy prices for your meds
- US Tax Forms and New York State Tax Forms - Click on these to get forms that are not available in the library.
- http://www.libraryelf.com/ A tool for organizing a family's worth of library accounts and materials.
- City of Rochester - Assessed values for city parcels.
- Jean Slocombe's Librarything library.
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