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AARP |
This website offers information, including: Issues & Elections; Learning & Technology; Health; Family, Home & Legal; Money & Work; Travel; Fun & Games. We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization that helps people 50 and over improve the quality of their lives. |
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Abbreviations.com |
Abbreviations.com is the world's largest and most comprehensive directory and search engine for acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the Internet. Abbreviations.com holds hundreds of thousands of entries organized by a large variety of categories from computing and the Web to governmental, medicine and business and it is expanding daily. |
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American Cancer Society |
Learn about cancer, stay healthy, find support and treatment, explore research and get involved. 1-800-227-2345
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American FactFinder |
Population finder, people, housing, business & government. Data, tools and factsheets. Brought to you by the US Census Bureau. |
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American Memory Collection |
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning. |
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American Solar Energy Society |
ASES Programs Make a Difference! For more than 50 years, the nonprofit American Solar Energy Society has been leading the renewable energy revolution. Through our various programs we are increasing the use of solar energy across the U.S. |
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AskColorado - Virtual Reference |
Got questions? Ask a librarian! Our librarians are 100% human and contain no robot by-products. What would you like to know today?
An online information service provided by Colorado libraries. Chat live with a librarian - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (except major holidays). For all Colorado students and residents. AskColorado is a human-powered search engine. |
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Autotropolis.com |
Autotropolis.com is dedicated to consumers who are researching and buying new or used vehicles.The site provides interactive tools for car shoppers to complete their research. |
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Ben's Guide for Kids |
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids is brought to the World Wide Web as a service of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). Ben's Guide serves as the educational component of GPO Access, GPO's service to provide the official online version of legislative and regulatory information. This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. |
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Better Business Bureau |
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Big Charts Market Watch |
One of the many sites on the Internet providing access to historical stock data. |
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Business and Economic Development Association of Grand County |
Grand County Business and Economic Development Association (BEDA) is launching the Main Street Efficiency Initiative February 1, 2011. Through this Program, small- and medium-sized businesses will be eligible to receive up to $2000 in energy efficiency rebates for facility assessments, lighting retrofits, re-commissioning services, and setback thermostats.
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Chilton's Automotive Repair |
Chilton Library provides exclusive photographs, diagnostics designed by instructors, step-by-step repair procedures, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) maintenance schedules, wiring diagrams, recalls and Technical Service Bulletins (TSBs) for automobiles and light trucks in one easy-to-use web site.This is a paid database through Grand County Library District. When you visit the site below, you will be instructed to type in your library card number (whole number, no spaces). |
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CIA - The World Factbook |
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, flags of the world, a physical map of the world, a political map of the world, standard time zones of the world map, a kids page. |
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Colorado Grants Guide |
The new and revised Colorado Grants Guide is the premier online funding tool specifically created for nonprofit and community-based organizations in Colorado. The guide is produced by the Community Resource Center, a nonprofit with 30 years of experience connecting grant-seekers with grant-makers. This guide will provide you with: Continuously updated funder profiles, library access via an Internet connection, an easy-to-use “search screen”, a quick way to target funders who are interested in your funding needs and, immediate access to a foundation’s website (when available).This online guide is available for use on any public access computer at all 5 Grand County Library District locations. Logins are restricted to one person per branch at a time. Please see a staff member for assistance. |
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Colorado Historic Newspapers |
The Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection (CHNC) currently includes more than 500,000 digitized pages, representing 163 individual newspaper titles published in Colorado from 1859 to 1923. Due to copyright restrictions, CHNC does not generally include newspapers published after 1923. |
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Colorado Legal Services |
This site provides help for low-income Coloradans seeking civil legal information such as: self-help legal information, where to find no or low-cost legal help and whether you qualify for that help, information about the courts and more! |
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Colorado Workforce Center |
Workforce Centers provide a variety of free services to assist employers and job seekers alike. These include: job listings, computer & internet access, career counseling & training for job seekers; and recruitment of workers, pre-screening & referral services, tax credits, and training reimbursement for employers. Customers can choose either self-service or staff-assisted options to meet their employment needs. |
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Consumer Reports |
ConsumerReports.org is your trusted one-stop shopping resource complete with: 1000+ Ratings, reviews, expert buying advice, product comparisons, consumer user reviews, and product video clips. Proven product reliability data. Complete product specifications. Frequently updated information. Quick recommendations. A Shop Online feature. 100% unbiased because we take no outside advertising. This is a paid database through Grand County Library District. When you visit the site below, you will be instructed to type in your library card number (whole number, no spaces). The EBSCO databases available to you will be listed after you sign in. |
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Consumer Safety Product Commission |
Help keep your family safe by checking product recalls and safety news from CPSC. Report an incident with a product that caused an injury. View recent recalls. Sign up for e-mail announcements. |
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Consumer Search |
At ConsumerSearch, we strive to make our content objective and precise; at no point are our editors influenced by advertising or other commercial considerations. Our goal is to report the truth about what experts and users are saying as well as important developments in each product category we cover. |
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Digital Literacy |
Learn the Basics of Digital Literacy! Build digital literacy skills by selecting from these categories: Using a Computer or Mobile Device Learn how to use the mouse, keyboard, icons, and folders Using Software and Applications Use software applications: word processing, creating spreadsheets, tables and databases Using the Internet Search the Internet, use email, register on a website Communicating on the Web Share photos and videos, communicate using social networks, learn to be an informed digital citizen Child Online Protection Help children learn to be responsible and make informed decisions online. |
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Drug Information Database |
Health information for the whole family. Health tools, smart parent guide, healthy living, seniors, over the counter drug guide, conditions A-Z, men & women, and more. This site complies with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health. |
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eNature.com |
eNature.com is the web's premier destination for information about the wild animals and plants of the United States. The site's core content of wildlife information about almost 6,000 individual species is the same data set used to create the printed Audubon Field Guides. All the data has been carefully reviewed and vetted by leading biologists, zoologists and other natural history specialists. |
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online Library Edition |
As the only online reference site created specifically for libraries, Britannica Online® Public Library Edition contains comprehensive content for all patrons—from elementary students to college students, from business professionals to curious seniors. Whether it’s frogs or physics, gardening or geography, Britannica Online® Public Library Edition covers it all. Extensive and thorough yet intuitive and fast, this powerful collection delivers trustworthy information. This is a paid database through Grand County Library District. When you visit the site, you will be instructed to type in your library card number (whole number, no spaces). |
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Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Culture |
glbtq.com is the largest Web site devoted to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (glbtq) education and culture and houses the largest, most comprehensive encyclopedia of glbtq culture in the world. The encyclopedia's Literature, Arts, and Social Sciences Departments feature more than 2.2 million words in nearly 2000 signed entries. |
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Energy Hog |
Use this site to get rid of the Energy Hogs in your home, and start saving money and energy. Check out their kids website, teacher resources, tax credit info, energy audits and more. |
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Energy Star |
The Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy offer the consumer information galore. So many tips! Check out the Kids website link as well. Products, Home Improvement, New Homes, Buildings & Plants, Partner Resources, Publications, Recursos en Español. |
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Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) |
Today, Federal Student Aid performs a range of critical functions that include, among others:
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FedStats (Federal Statistics Service) |
FedStats is your one location for access to the full breadth of Federal statistical information. FedStats provides information for Federal agencies that are listed in Statistical Programs of The United States Government and reporting expenditures of at least $500,000 per year in one or more statistical activities including. |
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Gale Literary Database |
Contemporary Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information and references on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.Contemporary Literary Criticism contains an extensive collection of critical essays on contemporary authors. This is a paid database through Grand County Library District. When you visit the site below, you will be instructed to type in your library card number (whole number, no spaces).
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Genealogy - Heritage Quest |
Search census records from 1790-1930; Search Books for family histories; Search PERSI, an index of over 1.6 million genealogy and local history articles or Search Revolutionary War records. This is a paid database through Grand County Library District. When you visit the site below, you will be instructed to type in your library card number (whole number, no spaces). |
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Glassdoor.com - Career Resources |
Glassdoor is a free career resource helping job-seekers and students get an inside look at over 28,000 companies-including company salaries, reviews and interview questions posted anonymously by employees and job seekers. |
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Grand County History |
Look at Places, People, Timeline, Community Life, Business/Industry or Transportation. Each area includes articles and photographs of life in Grand County, Colorado. |
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Health A - Z |
NIH is the nation’s medical research agency - making important medical discoveries that improve health and save lives. |
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HomeworkSpot.com |
Homework help for all ages. Elementary, Middle School & High School.
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International Children's Digital Library |
The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a research project funded primarily by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and Microsoft Research to create a digital library of outstanding children's books from all over the world. The materials in the collection, all presented in the original languages in which they were published, reflect similarities and differences in cultures, societies, interests, and lifestyles of peoples around the world. |
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Internet Public Library (ipl) |
ipl2 is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment. To date, thousands of students and volunteer library and information science professionals have been involved in answering reference questions for our Ask an ipl2 Librarian service and in designing, building, creating and maintaining the ipl2's collections. |
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KeyTrain - Job Skills via Colorado Workforce |
KeyTrain is the complete interactive training system for career readiness skills, based on ACT's WorkKeys® assessment system and the National Career Readiness Certificate. Please call Granby Workforce Center Phone: (970) 887-1857 or granby@cwfc.net to get your username and password for FREE today! |
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Los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud |
Los Institutos Nacionales de la Salud (NIH), como parte del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de los Estados Unidos, son los primeros organismos Federales que realizan y apoyan la investigación médica. Al abrir camino hacia importantes descubrimientos médicos con el objetivo de mejorar la salud y de salvar vidas, los científicos de NIH investigan las causas, los tratamientos y las posibles curas de las enfermedades más comunes y también de las más inusuales. Los NIH, integrados por 27 Institutos y Centros, proporcionan liderazgo y apoyo financiero a los investigadores en cada estado y en todo el mundo. |
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Medicare |
The official U.S. Government site for Medicare. Health & drug plans, facilities & doctors, eligibility, coverage, application, manage your health. |
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MedlinePlus |
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. |
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Mutopia Public Domain Sheet Music |
All music in the Mutopia Project is free to download, print out, perform and distribute.1672 pieces of music are now available. |
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NASDAQ Monthly Market Activity |
View a monthly activity report for the NASDAQ Stock Market or for an individual NASDAQ market participant by entering an MPID. Information is available from January 1997. Information includes:
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National Atlas of the United States |
Nationalatlas.gov™ contains a remarkable range of products and services to meet the diverse needs of people who are looking for maps and geographic information about America. Within this Web site, we offer the following products and services.
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Novelist - Your Guide to Reading |
NoveList Plus and NoveList Plus K-8 are databases that provide subject headings access, reviews, annotations, and more for over 150,000 fiction titles and 50,000 non-fiction titles. They also offer author read-alikes, book discussion guides, book talks, and feature articles. The database is searchable by author, title, series, category, genre, theme, or key word (plot description). This is a paid database through Grand County Library District. When you visit the site below, you will be instructed to type in your library card number (whole number, no spaces). |
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PBS Kids - Music |
Games and music by educational topic:
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Reading Rockets: Launching Readers |
Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. |
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refdesk.com - Reference, Facts, News |
Family friendly Refdesk has three goals: (1) fast access, (2) intuitive and easy navigation and (3) comprehensive content, rationally indexed. Each day on the Net begins anew with a visit to First Things First. To stay current with additions to refdesk, see New Sites Added during the week. Other features include Indispensable Sites and Editor's Picks. |
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SCORE: Counselors to America's Small Business |
SCORE is your premier, small business advice service.
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TeAch-nology (Technology Lessons) |
We are the online teacher resource that is designed to help busy Kindergarten through High School teachers. |
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Universal Class |
Universal Class provides online continuing education courses to schools, libraries, companies, educators, and individuals throughout the world. With a growing course catalog of over 500 online classes, Universal Class is committed to providing only the most affordable and highest quality continuing education. This is a paid database through Grand County Library District. When you visit the site, you will be instructed to register with your library card number (whole number, no spaces). |
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USA Jobs |
Official information and services from the U.S. government. CareerOneStop: Tools and Resources for Job Seekers Employment Assistance and Services – Local and Regional Programs of the U.S. Department of Labor. Employment for Visitors to the U.S. Government Jobs and Kids' Career Sites. |
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USA.gov |
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Visual Link Languages |
Learn a Language - or Learn 8 of Them! Learn a Language here with Visual Link® Languages. You can learn over 1,400 words for free here! There are interactive audio/visual flash cards to help you learn a language. There's also an addictive Lingo Dingo game to help you on your langauge learning journey. As seen above, you can learn words in the language of your choice. |
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Western History Photos (Denver Public Library) |
Over 120,000 of the images in the collection have been digitized and are available for viewing online in the Digital Image Catalog (formerly Photoswest). The Digital Image Collection consists of prints and negatives that document the history of Colorado and the American West. |
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WorldCat - Find it in Libraries Near You! |
WorldCat.org lets you search many libraries at once for an item and then locate it in a library nearby, find books, music, and videos to check out, find research articles and digital items (like audiobooks) that can be directly viewed or downloaded, and post your review of an item, or contribute factual information about it. You may need to have an active offline membership with a WorldCat library to view/download content or check out materials through its Web site.
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