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When you first enter the Library you have the sense that you are entering a very small room. Somehow, though, as you look around you realize that this impression was mistaken as there seem to be far more tables, books, magazines and shelves than you could have imagined for so small a room. Suddenly an android who introduces himself as Info appears in front of you and offers to help you find what you are looking for.

Reference Section

• Wikipedia, the Free Encylopedia
• Library of Congress
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Merriam Webster
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - part of the Bartleby Library
• Dictionary of Computing
• Urban Dictionary - collaborative slang dictionary
• CIA World Fact Book
• The Encyclopedia of ARDA - interactive guide to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
• Internet Classics Archive

SEARCH ENGINES

• Google - this section used to be large but Google is now so effective and comprehensive that it really obviates the need for many of the other search engines.

Please give me a list of

• Books On-Line - General Index
• Movies
• Television

Individual Books, Magazines, Papers and Articles

• John Markoff's seminal article on NCSA MOSAIC.
• Travels with Samantha - web travel book by Philip Greenspun.
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• The Mainstream That Through the Ghetto Flows; An Interview with Philip K. Dick - Wonderful interview whether you like PKD or not.
• Voices from the Hellmouth by Jon Katz - comments regarding high school life in the wake of the Littleton, CO shootings. (4/25/99)
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S Raymond - an analysis of the open source software movement as exemplified by Linux. The followup piece, Homesteading the Noosphere, is also excellent.

Other Library Services

• Yahoo Finance - stock quotes and more

Interesting Bookstores on the WWW

• Amazon.com Books - Search and purchase books online.
• Pandemonium Books & Games - SF bookstore in Cambridge, MA.

Speculative Fiction section

• Internet Speculative Fiction DataBase
• Tor Books Science Fiction and Fantasy - blog, stories, etc...

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