See also the Background section for more in depth treaments of handbooks and encyclopedias.
Guides
Price, Gary. Fast facts: Almanacs/factbooks/statistical reports & related reference tools.
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For Information Professionals
ALA Library & Research Center (LARC). Fact sheets.
American Library Association. ALA divisions, units, and governance.
ALA handbook of organization. Chicago: ALA. Bird-Reference, 1st floor Z/673/A5/O71
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More General Topics
Almanac of Disasters.
Almanac of Politics and Government.
For measurement conversions and other calculations,
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). (Latest). World factbook .
chemsoc. 109 - A Visual Interpretation of the Table of Elements [.pdf].
See also periodic table below.
Compute Sunrise, Sunset, and Twilight for Cities and Airports Worldwide.
Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation Conversion Factors.
Curious Kids, Inc. Metric and English Unit Conversions.
Department of Defense. Defense Almanac.
Offers a wide range of mostly U.S. statistics.
Guide to statistics from more than 70 U.S. Federal agencies.
Organizes political information including congressional information, state legislative, counties, cities and towns, postsecondary, PK12 schools, charter schools, and media information.
House of Travel. Clothing Conversion Table.
Combines the Columbia Encyclopedia, several Please Almanacs and a dictionary.
Liungman, Carl G. (1975). Thought Signs, an encyclopedia of graphic symbols. SYMBOLS.com: Encyclopedia of western signs and ideograms. HME Media.
"Contains statements containing statistical evidence on current social, economic, political, health, and environmental issues."
Ojala, Marydee. (Ed.). Bookmark Central: Cost of Living. Database
Periodic table of the elements .
Periodic table. WebElements.
See also chemsoc above
S.O.S. mathematics tables and formulas.
Standard industrial classification search (OSHA) and an Alternate site
State of the cities data systems.
Create customized datasets on US cities based on statistics gathered by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Bureau of the Census, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Temperature Conversion Calculator .
U.S. Bureau of the Census. American Factfinder, County and City Data Book. (1994), County Business Patterns, 1977-1993, Statistical Abstract of the United States and USA statistics in brief.
U.S. Navy. Sunrise/sunset/twilight and moonrise/moonset/phase.
U.S. Navy. Naval Observatory Master Clock. What time is it?
University of California at Berkeley. School of Information Management and Systems. How much information? [pdf]
"...the world's total yearly production of print, film, optical, and magnetic content would require roughly 1.5 billion gigabytes of storage." Magnetic storage is by far the most common medium for storing information, accounting for an estimated 635,660 to 1,693,000 terabytes per year. Print documents only accounted for 0.003 percent of the total yearly production of content.
University of Illinois at Urbana. National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Calendars.
University of Michigan. Statistical resources on the web.
World Wide Web Holiday and Festival Page.
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