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Webster Groves Public Library

301 East Lockwood Avenue
Webster Groves, Mo. 63119-3102
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main desk
children's desk
reference desk

: 314.961.3784
: 314.961.7262
: 314.961.7277

M - Th
F - Sa
Su

: 9a - 9p
: 9a - 4:30p
: 2p - 5p

Reference Links

If you have a reference question we can answer for you, please e-mail us at reference@wgpl.org. We will try to respond within a day or less. If you need a quicker response, please call the reference desk, during regular business hours, at 314.961.7277.

Databases with home access

These resources may be accessed within the library or from home with a valid MLC library card number.
CultureGrams Information on culture, history, customs and lifestyles of world countries.
Use the link to the left for home access. For access from within the library, please click here.
EBSCOhost Search for articles in thousands of magazines and journals.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online Use the link to the left for home access. For access from within the library, please click here.
FirstSearch Search for books in libraries all over the United States.
Gale Discovering Collection Book, newspaper, magazine, and Web resources for students researching almost any taopic.
Learning Express Take practice tests for many standard college and professional exams.
NewsBank Search for articles in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and many other newspapers.
Plunkett Research Industry statistics and company analyses.

Libraries

Municipal Library Consortium of St. Louis County St. Louis Public Library
St. Charles City-County Library St. Louis County Library
Eden-Webster Library System Fontbonne University Library
Kenrick-Glennon Seminary Library Library of Congress
Maryville University Library MERLIN (University of Missouri and St. Louis University)
Missouri State Library Washington University Libraries
other libraries

Tax Forms

Federal forms (irs.gov) Federal forms (1040.com)
Missouri forms Other state forms (1040.com)
Other state forms (taxadmin.org) City of St. Louis forms

Sites for Kids

Ask Dr. Math At the Tomb of Tutankahem
Audrey Wood's Web Site Bill Nye the Science Guy's Nye Labs Online
FunBrain.com The Moonlit Road
National Zoo (Washington, DC) St. Louis Zoo

News Media

Newspapers

Boston Globe Chicago Tribune
Kansas City Star Los Angeles Times
New York Times New York Times Book Review
St. Louis Business Journal St. Louis Post-Dispatch
USA Today Washington Post
Washington Times Webster-Kirkwood Times

TV and Radio

ABC BBC
CBS CNN
C-SPAN ESPN
Fox MSNBC
NPR

Local TV and Radio

KMOV KMOX
KSDK KTVI

Business and Investing

American Stock Exchange Federal Reserve
MarketWatch Missouri Business Portal
NASDAQ New York Stock Exchange
Sample Business Plans Securities and Exchange Commission
Yahoo! Finance

Cooking

All Recipes Cooks.com
Epicurious RecipeSource

Countries

Background Notes (US State Department) CIA World Fact Book
Dictionaries From Around the World Flags (World Flag Database)
Flags (CIA World Factbook) How Far Is it?
Infonation: Statistical Data for Member Countries of the United Nations Language Translation
Map Machine

Financial Aid

FAFSA FAFSA 2008-09 form
FastWeb FastAID
FinAid Foundation Center
Students.gov

Genealogy

African-Native American Genealogy Ancestry.com - Online Genealogy
Family Search Free African-Americans
Land Patent Records Site Source List for Genealogy Research
USGenWeb USGenWeb Archives Search Page

General Reference

Acronym Finder American Kennel Club
Art Research Service Bartleby.com (great books online)
Bible Board on Geographic Names (US Geological Survey)
Bus and Train Schedules Cat Fanciers' Association
Cliffs Notes Currency Conversion
Dictionary Encyclopedia Mythica (mythology)
Farmer's Almanac Fodor's Travel Guides
Free online image editor Free online word processing
GED Online Google word processing/spreadsheet
Guiness World Records How to Tie a Bow Tie
Hwy. 40 shutdown Internet Public Library
Kelley Blue Book Literary Criticism
MapQuest Merriam-Webster Online
NADA Price Guides NASA
National Atlas National Weather Service
Newspapers.com Olympics
On-Line Aerial Photographs On-Line Legal Reference
Patron Saints Periodic Table
Perpetual Calendar Public Libraries
Reference Refdesk.Com
Statistical Resources Tax Forms
Thesaurus Time magazine archives
Topozone - Topographic Maps US Geological Survey
Webster Groves Historical Society Zip Codes, Zip+4

Government

St. Louis County voter registration Find election information for your address
Federal no-call list Missouri no-call list
America's Job Bank Business.gov
Census Commerce Business Daily
Congressional Record East-West Gateway Coordinating Council
Federal Benefits Federal Forms
Federal Grants Federal Register
Federal Statistics Firstgov.gov
GPOAccess Government Reference
Library of Congress Missouri Revised Statutes
Missouri, State of Missouri State Parks
Missouri unclaimed property National Archives
St. Louis City St. Louis County
St. Louis County Forms St. Louis County Interactive Maps
St. Louis County Real Estate Information Selective Service System
Small Business Administration Small Business forms
Statistical abstract of the United States Time
United States Code United States House of Representatives
United States Senate United States Supreme Court
Webster Groves, City of Webster Groves City Charter
Webster Groves City Code Webster Groves School District
Webster Groves schools (MO Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education) Webster Groves weather
White House

Health Care

Centers for Disease Control Eldercare
FamilyDoctor.org Flu
Flu shots HealthierUS
KidsHealth.org Mayo Clinic
Medicaid Medicare
MedicineNet Medline Plus
Missouri Department of Health Nutrition.gov
PandemicFlu.gov PDRHealth
St. Louis County Department of Health WebMD

History

Colonial America

Connecticut Delaware
Georgia Maryland
Massachusetts New Hampshire
New Jersey New York
North Caorlina Pennsylvania
Rhode Island South Carolina
Virginia Colonial National Historical Park
The Mayflower Plimoth Plantation
Salem Witchcraft Hysteria Thirteen Colonies
Williamsburg

U.S. Revolutionary War

Revolutionary War (historycentral.com)
Battlefields
Boston Cowpens
Guilford Courthouse King's Mountain
Moores Creek Morristown
Saratoga Valley Forge
Yorktown

U.S. Civil War

Abraham Lincoln birthplace Battle summaries by campaign
Battle summaries by state Civil War flags
Civil War (historychannel.com) Civil War medicine
Clara Barton Ford's Theatre
Look up Civil War soldiers and sailors Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Battlefields
Andersonville Antietam
Appomattox Court House Brice's Crossroads
Chancellorsville Chickamauga and Chattanooga
Cold Harbor Fort Donelson
Fort Sumter Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania
Gettysburg Kennesaw Mountain
Manassas Monocacy
New Market Pea Ridge
Petersburg Richmond
Shiloh Stones River
Vicksburg Wilderness
Wilson's Creek

Job Search

America's Job Bank Illinois jobs
Missouri jobs Monster.com
NationJob.com Occupational Outlook Handbook
St. Louis jobs USA Jobs
Yahoo HotJobs

American Indians

Accohannock American Indian Movement
Apache (Jicarilla) Apache (White Mountain)
Blackfeet Brothertown
Cayuga Chehalis
Cherokee Cherokee (Amonsoquath)
Cherokee (Northern) Chickasaw
Chicora Chippewa (Minnesota)
Chippewa (Saginaw) Chippewa (Sault Ste. Marie)
Chippewa (Turtle Mountain Band) Choctaw
Choctaw (Jena Band) Choctaw (Mississippi Band)
Chukchansi Chumash (Santa Ynez Band)
Cocopah Colville
Couer d'Alene Coushatta
Cowlitz Delaware (Lenape)
Dine (Navajo) Eastern Chickahominy
Fallon Paiute-Shoshone First Nations - An issues forum
Flags of Indian nations Fort Belknap
Fort Peck Gila River
Goshute (Skull Valley Band) Havasupai
Hoopa Hopi
Iowa Jamestown S'Klallam
Kalispel Karuk
Kaw Klamath
Kumeyaay (Ewiiaapaayp Band) Kumeyaay (Viejas Band)
Lake Superior Chippewa (Lac Courte Oreilles Band) Lake Superior Chippewa (Lac du Flambeau Band)
Lake Superior Chippewa (Lac Vieux Desert Band) Lake Superior Chippewa (Red Cliff Band)
Lake Superior Chippewa (Sokaogon Band) Lenape (Delaware)
Luiseño (Pechanga Band) Luiseño (Soboba Band)
Lumbee Lummi
Makah Maliseet (Houlton Band)
Mandan, Hitdatsa, Arikara Mattaponi
Melungeon Menominee
Miami Miccosukee
Micmac (Aroostook Band) Mission Indians (Barona Band)
Mission Indians (Pala Band) Mission Indians (San Manuel Band)
Modoc Mohegan
Monacan Muckleshoot
Muscogee (Creek) Nansemond
Narragansett Native American Times
NativeWeb Navajo (Dine)
Navajo-Hopi Observer Navajo Radio (KTNN)
Navajo Times Nez Perce
Nisqually Nooksack
Odawa (Little Traverse Bay Bands) Ojibwa (Keweenaw Bay Community)
Ojibwe (Milles Lacs Band) Oneida
Oneida (Wisconsin) Osage (Wazhazhe)
Ottawa Paiute (Kaibab Band)
Paiute (Pyramid Lake) Pamunkey
Pascua-Yaqui Passamaquoddy
Pawnee Penobscot
Peoria Pequot (Manshantucket)
Pima-Maricopa (Salt River) Pomo (Cloverdale-Rancheria Band)
Pomo (Coyote Valley Band) Pomo (Hopland Band)
Pomo (Kashaya Band) Pomo (Pinoleville Band)
Pomo (Robinson Rancheria) Port Gamble S’Klallam
Potawatomi (Citizen Band) Potawatomi (Forest County Band)
Potawatomi (Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band) Potawatomi (Prairie Band)
Powhatan Renape Pueblo (Jemez)
Pueblo (Laguna) Pueblo (Sandia)
Pueblo (Santa Ana) Pueblo (Taos)
Pueblo (Zuni) Quapaw
Red Lake Round Valley
Sac and Fox Salish and Kootenai
Sauk-Suiattle Saponi (Occaneechi Band)
Samish Seminole (Florida)
Seminole (Oklahoma) Seneca
Shoalwater Bay Siletz
Sioux (Cheyenne River) Sioux (Flandreau Santee)
Sioux (Rosebud) Sioux (Shakopee Mdewakanton)
Sioux (Standing Rock) Skokomish
Southern Ute Spokane
Squaxin Island Suquamish
Swinomish Tachi-Yokut
Tulalip Tuscarora
Umatilla Umpqua (Cow Creek Band)
Wampanoag (Gay Head) Washoe
Wazhazhe (Osage) Wichita
Winnebago Wiyot

Sites for Seniors

Senior.Com - Online Community for Seniors Seniornet.com - Computer and Internet Information for Seniors
AARP - American Association for Retired People Third Age - Online Community for Seniors
ElderWeb - Online Eldercare resource Missouri Senior Housing Directory

Telephone Numbers

AnyWho Internet 800 Directory
Switchboard.com Yahoo! Yellow Pages

If you have a reference question we can answer for you, please e-mail us at reference@wgpl.org. We will try to respond within a day or less. If you need a quicker response, please call the reference desk, during regular business hours, at 314.961.7277.