United We Serve

This website connects volunteers with service opportunities. Get involved!

http://www.serve.gov

WORD! A Glossary of Medical Words for Kids

The KidsHealth site has other health information as well -- and is available in Spanish!

http://kidshealth.org/kid/word/

Rebecca's Pocket: Summer Reading Lists

Lots of reading lists gathered together in one spot at http://www.rebeccablood.net/archive/reading_lists/summer_2009/.

How Products are Made

Fun educational site for kids. Find out how marshmallows and golf balls are made. Includes inventor biographies as well.

http://www.madehow.com/

Henry VIII 500th Anniversary

The Royal Collection Exhibit at http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/henryviii/
The British Library Online Gallery at http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/henryviii/

Hubble Site

All about the Hubble telescope. Good site for youth interested in astronomy.

http://www.hubblesite.org

Internet Crime Complaint Center

A partnership between the FBI, the National White Collar Crime Center and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, this is the place to report possible cyber crimes. Also features current schemes and prevention tips.

http://www.ic3.gov

Swine Flu Resources

HealthInfoIowa (provided by the State Library of Iowa)

Swine Flu Resource Guide (from the Hardin Library at the U of Iowa)

Centers for Disease Control

The Encyclopedia of Earth

Read one of these articles in honor of Earth Day!

http://www.eoearth.org/

Mirage Bookmarks

Like bookmarks? Here is a site with lots of unusual and collectible ones.

http://www.miragebookmark.ch/

Running the Numbers

An American Self-Portrait by Chris Jordan. A graphic way to understand the huge numbers of things like packing peanuts, airline plastic cups and plastic bottles used in the U.S.

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php

Marketplace Whiteboard

From American Public Media -- Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch explains financial terms like "cramdowns," "toxic assets," and "quantitative easing."

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/videos/whiteboard/

Hot Topics from the Jackson Library

Selected articles on how current events (the bailouts, the Madoff scandal, "going green," etc.) affect business from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford.

http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/jacksonlibrary/articles/hottopics/

"TIME" for Kids

Time magazine's site for kids -- with news, homework helper, etc.

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids

RAGBBRAI

Is coming to Southwest Iowa!

http://www.ragbrai.org/

Green Recovery

A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy

http://www.peri.umass.edu/green_recovery/

artdaily.org

An online newspaper about the arts -- also features short artist bios, puzzles, etc.

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp

Librophiliac Love Letter

Curious Expeditions' collection of photos of beautiful libraries. (Thanks to Ken Davenport at NEILSA!)

http://curiousexpeditions.org/?p=78

Dealing with Clutter

The U of Illinois Extension offers help to get organized at
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/clutter/.

The Payphone Project

A site devoted to locating those vanishing pay telephones (and also mailboxes!).

http://www.payphone-project.com/