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- Kansas City, Missouri Public Library
Kansas City, Missouri Public Library Web Site- Kansas Library Catalog Union Database
Sponsored by the Kansas State Library, this catalog contain records for all Kansas Libraries. To search the Kansas Serials Catalog, choose the "Select Another Database" Option and select "Kansas Serials Cat".- Johnson County Library
Johnson County Library Web Site- Mid-Continent Public Library
Mid-Continent Public Library Home Page- U.S. Public Libraries on the Web
Academic Libraries
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- University of Missouri Libraries
- Kansas University Libraries
- Kansas State University Libraries
- Johnson County Community College Library
- Kansas City Kansas Community College Library
- Shares the Kansas City (MO) Public Library catalog.
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Government Libraries
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- Library of Congress
- Browse/search catalog at the Library of Congress
- Search THOMAS, Legislative information from the Library of Congress. News about Congress, full-text of bills, the Congressional Record, and more. Explanation of the legislative process, and many historical documents related to the government of the United States.
- Search for Historical Documents at THOMAS
- National Agricultural Library
- AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access)
- Agriculture Network Information Center AgNIC is a guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and other institutions.
- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
- Search ARC Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library
- National Library of Medicine
- MEDLINE through PubMed
- NIH Electronic Resources including the Library Catalog.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Databases
- Envirofacts Search the EPA for Superfund data, safe drinking water info, hazardous waste data, toxics release inventory, and more. Custom reports and maps can be generated from these databases.
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- Search SIRIS , the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System- has six catalogs to search: the Library Catalog; Archives & Manuscripts Catalog; Art Inventories Catalog; Peter A. Juley & Son Collection Catalog; Research/Bibliographies Catalog; Smithsonian Chronology Catalog.
- accessKansas
- Official homepage for the state of Kansas. Information on elected officials, state agencies, legislature, links to local government sites, trade and professional associations.
- Kansas State Library
- Kansas State Library Catalog
- Kansas Supreme Court Law Library
- Information about the KS Supreme Court Library and its services.
For access to the library catalog, use ATLAS, the Associated Topeka Libraries Automated System.- Kansas State Historical Society Library
- Not an online catalog, but a description of Research resources at the KSHS; access to finding aids and indexes of holdings.
- State Library Web Sites
- Find a Federal Depository Library
- National Libraries (worldwide)
Law, Medical, Newspaper, and other Special Libraries
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- Linda Hall Library Independent research library for science, engineering and technology.
- LHL LEONARDO WebCatalog
- Nelson-Atkins Museum Library shares the catalog with the Linda Hall Library.
- LHL LEONARDO WebCatalog
- University of Missouri, Kansas City Law Library
- Kansas University Law Library
- Washburn University Law Library
- Search W.U.'s Law Library Catalog
- Search WASHLAW, Washburn University Law Library's Legal Resources on the Internet
- Kansas Supreme Court Law Library
- Search the Washburn University/Kansas Supreme Court Law Library Catalog
- WashLaw WEB -- Law Library Catalogs
- Kansas University Medical Center: Dykes Library and KU Medical Libraries Catalog
- National Library of Medicine
- MEDLINE through PubMed
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Library
- NIH Electronic Resources including the Library Catalog
Museums, Archives & Special Collections
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- Library of Congress American Memory Project
- Search American Memory Collections
- NARA: National Archives & Records Administration
- Search ARC Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.
- Truman Library & Museum
- Western Historical Manuscript Collection
- Joint collection of the University of Missouri and the State Historical Society of Missouri
- Spencer Art Reference Library
- Nelson-Atkins Museum Library
Virtual Libraries
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- Blue Skyways
- Blue Skyways is a shared information service for the Kansas library community. It helps Kansas libraries serve as vital information utilities for their communities by hosting resources of particular value to Kansas librarians and their clients, providing easy access to library catalogs, Internet training tools and other global information resources, supporting community networking ventures, and promoting partnerships and enhancing library networking.
- Internet Public Library
- The first public library of and for the Internet community, started by graduate students at the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan. Resources include Reference; Resources for Librarians; Exhibits created by and for the Internet community; Magazines, Newspapers and full-text Books. Like other public libraries, resources are carefully selected, evaluated, organized and described.
- LibrarySpot
- Published by StartSpot Mediaworks, Inc. in Evanston, Ill. LibrarySpot was "designed to break through the information overload of the Web to bring the best library and reference sites together with insightful editorial in one convenient, user-friendly spot." In addition to Reference and Reading Room materials, this site has lots of tools and resources for librarians.
- WWW Virtual Library
- The oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the web itself. Run by volunteer subject experts, it is "widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web." Pretty heavily technology-oriented, and organized by WWW's own subject headings.
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