Information Resources for Information Professionals
Food, Good Reads, Humor
Compiled by:
Joe Ryan
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Table of Contents
Consumer Sites
- ConsumerSearch.
- Dollar stretcher.
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Food
- Atlas, Nava. Vegetarian kitchen.
- Betty Crocker recipes.
- Bread Machine Digest.
- Chile-heads home page.
- Chile Pepper Institute.
- Culinaria online.
- Ethnicgrocer.com.
- Fanny Farmer Cookbook (1918 edition of Boston Cooking-School Cook Book).
- Fleischmann's yeast.
- The Garlic Store.
- Gernot Katzer's spice pages.
- GreekCuisine.com.
- Honey locator.
- Kress, Henriette. Culinary herbFAQ.
- Minnesota Attorney General. Food Finder (based on the Fast Food Facts handbook). Olen Publishing.
- Search any of nineteen fast food restaurants by food names, maximum calories, percent calories from fat, and maximum sodium, fat, and cholesterol.
- National Food Safety Database. Canning, drying and freezing.
- Robinson, Jancis. (1999). Oxford companion to wine.
- Penzeys Spice Company.
- Ragu. Mama's Cucina.
- Give the ingredients you have and get back a recipe for dinner.
- Roadfood.com.
- Soup of the evening...Beautiful soup.
- Top secret recipes on the web: Creating kitchen clones of America's favorite brand-name foods.
- US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dietary guidelines for Americans.
- Zagat.com.
- Restaurant reviews from more than twenty-five cities.
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Games
- Aubry, Chris; Cunningham, Peggy; and Cubit, Julia. Library science jeopardy. University of Maryland College Park.
- Patterned after the original jeopardy game.
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Gardening
- Garden helper.
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Cooperative Extension, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources. General and specialty mail-order seed sources.
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Home buying & Improvement
- Handyman USA.
- Michigan State University Extension. Home maintenance and repair.
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Homebuyers kit.
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Humor
- Binghampton University. Lighter Side of Librarianship.
- Drew, Bill. Library humor.
- IFLA. Library humour.
- Michigan Electronic Library. Humor and culture in libraries.
- New Jersey State Library. Fun for bookworms.
- Smith, Brian. Laughing librarian.
- United Features Syndicate. Dilbert. Today's Dilbert Cartoon.
Good Reads
- Benton Foundation. (1996, November). Buildings, books, and bytes: Libraries and communities in the digital age; A report on the publicıs opinion of library leadersı visions for the future. and Library Trends, 46 (1) (Summer, 1997). Entire issue is devoted to responses to Benton Report.
- "Compares library leaders' visions for the future with the public's prescriptions for
libraries, derived from public opinion research that forms the backbone of this study."
- Borges, Jorge Luis. (1963). The Library of Babel. Ficciones (translated by Anthony Kerrigan). NY: Grove Press. pp. 79-88.
- Buckland, Michael. (1992). Redesigning library services: A manifesto. Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE.
- Bush, Vanever. As we may think. Atlantic.
- Coffman, Stephen. (1999, March). Building earth's largest library: Driving into the future. Searcher 7 (3). See also Response to Building earth's largest library: Driving into the future and editor Michael Dahn's Earth's largest library: One librarian's plan of action.
- Diamond, Edwin and Bates, Stephen. (1995, October) Law and order comes to cyberspace. Technology Review.
- Dyson, Esther. (1995, January). Intellectual property on the net. Release 1.0
Ferris, B. A critical view of the net.
- Gilder, George. Telecosm archive. Forbes Magazine.
- Goslee, Susan. Losing ground bit by bit: Low-income communities in the information age. Benton Foundation and National Urban League.
- McClure, Charles R. Et al.
Survey of public libraries and the Internet
- Nrenaissance Committee, National Research Council. (1994). Realizing the information future. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. ISBN 0309050448
- Postman, Neil. (1990, October 11). Informing ourselves to death.
- An IBM-Germany sponsored speech given at a meeting of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft fuer Informatik) on October 11, 1990 in Stuttgart.
- Rheingold, Howard. Why censoring cyberspace is futile.
- Scientific American. (1997, March). The Internet: Bringing order from chaos. Scientific American.
- Sclove, Richard E. (1995) Democracy and Technology. New York: Guilford Press.
- Seely-Brown, John and Duguid, Paul. (1996). The social life of documents. First Monday.
- Sterling, Bruce. (1992, June). Free as air, free as water, free as knowledge (speech). San Francisco CA: Library Information Technology Association Conference.
- Tech Museum of Innovation and The San Jose Mercury News. The Revolutionaries: On Turning Inspiration into Innovation in Silicon Valley. Alternate site.
- Your Personal Net. Sci-Fi/Fantasy Department.
Shipping
- Smart Ship.
- Find out cost of shipping a package via FedEx, Post Office, UPS.
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Stains
Campbell, Allan. Stain guide.
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Used Automobiles
- NADA used vehicle values & appraisal guides.
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Travel
- Levine, John R. Airline information on-line on the Internet FAQ.
- Includes: on-line sources of airline schedules and fares, airlines with any online services, sources of on-line specials, and a list of travel agents that offer service over the net.
- Orbitz.
- Santa Cruz (CA) Public Library. Volunteering vacations.
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