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Public Libraries

Southworth Public Library Dryden, NY.

Tompkins County Public Library Ithaca, NY.

Internet Resources

Finding useful information on the World-Wide Web can be very difficult. Below are links to web sites that Dryden teachers and students may find useful or just plan interesting.

Occupational Outlook Handbook Compiled by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is recognized primary source for finding vocational guidance information.

Citation Machine Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.

Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers A chart illustrating the different aspects of fair use for different media in the classroom.

DailyLit Too busy for books? Read them by email or RSS.

Heavens Above Photographs of the universe from the Hubble space telescope.

Internet Archive Offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to digital historical collections. Includes moving images, live music archive, audio recordings, texts, and the Way Back Machine.

LibriVox "Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain." Free public domain audiobooks.

Meet the Author Presents short author interviews videos filmed by the authors and publishers.

Open Library Imagine a library that collected all of the world's information about all of the world's books and made available to everyone to view and update. Contains pointers to Gutenberg texts as well as Internet Archive scans as well as Amazon downloads or library borrowing.

Project Gutenberg The first and largest single collection of free electronic books.