Hard toss up here to choose between My Virtual Reference Desk, the Digital Librarian, or Voice of the Shuttle for the first place to check, when doing a search. For just plain browsing The Big Eye or Repositories of Primary Sources gets my votes.

http://www.bigeye.com/  the Big Eye list of over 2000 links, started as a favorite's file for his granddaughters, now getting over 2 million hits per month, many resources can be located from here, excellent jump site to wide range of subjects. The site is an uncategorized archive of carefully selected Websites. "Its purpose is to provide a comprehensive reference point for browsing the best of the Web." Nice addition is the Library Resources and the Best Sites, Best News, Best Search pages.

http://www.sau.edu/CWIS/Internet/Wild/index.htm BIOTN the Best Information on the Net chosen by librarians at O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University.

http://www.servtech.com/~mvail/home.html Digital Librarian: "a librarian's choice of the best of the web", maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson. Arranged by subject, a rich alphabetical index of what is available on the web. Children's Literature with some 200 links, General Literature, Children's Resources, Parenting, Education and about 90 other subjects have their own sections.

http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~gprice/direct.htm Direct List which gets you to over 600 search tools and directories for specific subject areas--it beats using general search engines by a long shot.

http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/  Internet Public Library Ready Reference Resources section links you to some of the best of the web.  Wide range of topics covered.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/index.html Internet School Library Media Center: a well indexed, growing number of sites of interest to everyone.  Everything from art museums to world maps and atlases, links to author and illustrator home pages, online library catalogs, and much more.  The more you search this site, the more often you return.  Provided by Inez Ramsey, a Professor of Library Science at James Madison University.  This award winning site truly is the Media Center for librarians and teachers.  Meta site.

http://lii.org/  Librarians' Index to the Internet. Easy to search index, with well described links simplifying your search.

http://www.refdesk.com My Virtual Reference Desk: punch in Books and Literature, (if the button isn't there do a site search for books) and receive a wealth of links, around 200 arranged alphabetically with short descriptions. Or go searching about the sight to find just about anything you want to connect to. This site is a collection of metapages to make connections elsewhere. Excellent source for newspapers and magazines. Some people find First Things First as their choice for their homepage or start their day with it.

http://members.home.net/albeej/  Needle in a CyberStack- the InfoFinder: Not as easy to navagate as the digital librarian but definitely a wealth of links on a wide base.

http://www.winsor.edu/library/libguide.htm  The Public Service Librarian's Professional Guide to Internet Resources provided by The Winsor School Library, Boston MA. As the name implies there is a lot here but a bit difficult to resource quickly, definitely worth a look.

http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html Repositories of Primary Sources 'lists over 2700 websites that describe holdings of rare books, manuscripts, archives, historical photos, and other primary sources for research scholars.' Some rusty links here but defiantly a wealth of information searchable by location from Alabama to Zambia. Of special note: Rare Books, Manuscripts & Special Collections linking list found under the Additional General Links.

http://www.rcs.rang.k12.va.us/SCHOOLS/RCHS/Library/Rchslib.htm Rockbridge County High School site with a nice selection of links.

http://www.studyweb.com   Study Web "Focusing the Web for education."  Easy to locate your topic of interest among the 73,000 sites, with concise descriptions of each site and rating the visual content and appropriate grade level. Broad topics range from Agriculture to Writing and Writers, with a wide selection inbetween.  Well worth a visit for the teacher, student or parent.

http://www.virtualfreesites.com/reference.books.html  Virtual Reference Sites, over 10,000 selected sites, good index, line or two descriptions.

http://metalab.unc.edu/cisco/schoolhouse/  Virtual Schoolhouse, "A Meta-Library of K-12 Internet Links" Try their Library, Art Room and Virtual Field Trips.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/ Voice of the Shuttle woven by Alan Liu of UC Santa Barbara, once there go to For Your Children for a variety of links. Bilingual Books for Kids, Book Nook, FAO Schwarz, The Fabulous Miss Piggy Home page, LEGO Home Page, and many more. OR go to the Publishers and Booksellers Page and see what you can find. General Humanities (text online), English Literature (authors lists and works), Literatures Other (non-English sites), Libraries and Museums, Teaching Resources, Photography (copyright free). A well developed jump mega site.

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