Last Updated: March, 2001

Sometimes you need some general information, the kind of things you find in an almanac, dictionary or encyclopedia. Well you may find what you are looking for on the internet. Here are a few sites to get you started.

• Acronyms Finder
  http://www.mtnds.com/af/
  Look up 72,000 acronyms or abbreviations & their meanings. A searchable database containing common acronyms and abbreviations for all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military.

• Britannica.com
  http://www.britannica.com
  This is the Encyclopedia Britannica you know and love, on the Web. There is lots of great info here which you can find by searching or by using their subject categories.

• Date and Time Gateway
  http://www.bsdi.com/date
  Current date and time in Greenwich Mean Time and links to countries for date & time.

• DeskRef
  http://ansernet.rcls.org/deskref/
  Quick reference links on tons of categories.

• Guinness World Records
  http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com
  Need to know the size of the biggest disco ball? The world's wettest place? Look no further than this site. You can browse world records by category or search by keyword. These pages can be slow to load, especially if you have a slow connection.

• MIT Virtual Reference Collection
  http://libraries.mit.edu/services/virtualref.html
  Links to sites on reference topics.

• My Virtual Reference Desk
  http://www.refdesk.com
  Links to lots of different topics from history to math.

• THOR+
  http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html
  Government documents, technology, dictionaries, phone books, science, ZIP codes and more.

• U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock Time
  http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl
  "The Official Source of Time for the Department of Defense and the Standard of Time for the United States."

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