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TEL - Tennessee Electronic Library 

Tennessee Public Library Catalog

 

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R.E.A.D.S.

TEL tutorials - need help using the TEL databases? This is the place to go!

Special resources : Scroll down the page to see what is available! 

***FindLaw provides free access to federal and state statutes, case law, constitutions, and other legal resources. http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/ 

***Legal Information Institute from Cornell Law School provides summaries and comparisons of state laws on specific topics such as divorce, labor, taxation and alcoholic beverages. http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/state_statutes.html

***Science Fair Project Resource Guide - Information and links to other resources.  Sections include Getting Started, Choosing a Topic, Completing the Project, and Displaying Your Project.    http://www.ipl.org/div/projectguide/

***
Bartleby’s
is a collection of reference books, mainly covering literature and poetry, plus full text of ficton and non-fiction works which are out of copyright.  A sampling of titles: Bartlett’s Quotations, World Factbook, H.G. Well’s The Time Machine, and Relativity by Alfred Einstein.
http://www.bartleby.com/
No usename or password is required.

***Latin American Journals Directory  
http://www.latindex.unam.mx/
Free! No user name or password!

***American Memory
If you’re still in vacation mode, check out the historical photographs from 1880-1920 in “Touring Turn-of-the-Century America”
(
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/touring/), part of the Sports and Recreation section of the Library of Congress’ American Memory project (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Sports,+Recreation). 

***Databases for Clean Air Month
Chemical Scorecard
http://www.scorecard.org/
See which chemicals are being released in your area, the top polluters, and how your county compares nationwide.  Searchable by zip code. 

Environmental Protection Agency: Air
http://www.epa.gov/ebtpages/air.html
Information on pollutants and regulations from in-depth science and legal issues to brochures for the public.

***American Verse Project
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/

Full text of American Poems priory to 1920, from the University of Michigan.

***Famous Poets and Poems
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/
It includes biographical information on 627 poems and more than 23,000 full text poems.

***Western and Cowboy Poetry at the Bar-D Ranch
Mosey on over to Western and Cowboy Poetry at the Bar-D Ranch, http://www.cowboypoetry.com/

Black History Resources
 - Biographies, timelines, and more!
Biography Resource Center - African Americans
 
Earth Day Resource - free, no passwords!
Thanksgiving Resources - web sites give history, statistics, and historic recipes!

See also "Recommended Sites"

 

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