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Accept Libraries Lending Policy page Verification of enrollment Libraries' Friends of Penn State page - Direct users to this page to create a FPS account that will update their user record in Unicorn Friends of Penn State information page Alumni Library information page Policy UL-AD09 on Authentication Request for In Process Material Databases Status Check page SIRSI Circulation Reports Software on University Libraries computers, ITS Windows computers, ITS Mac computers Helpdesk and Libraries Webmail Get it! FAQ Group Study Areas Computers available/in use at libraries and labs Tip for troubleshooting off-campus access issues re VPN client. Once the VPN software is downloaded, they must choose the LIAS vpn option from the menu else access may be denied. ID+ Office Fee appeal form Labman How to Issue STAAR's STAAR Distribution Center - online tool to issue STAAs IM Widget Reference Satisfaction Survey Call Number Sorting Formula in Excel Wireless Access for Visitors Items Sent to GOOGLE EMS Knowledgebase	OneLook – dictionaries Universal Currency Converter Open WorldCat Directory of published proceedings - search tool for conference proceedings. TOC Premier at EBSCOhost Web PA Power Library Thomas Register Industrial Quick Search - directory of manufacturers Symbols.com Acronym Finder All that JAS (Journal Abbreviation Sources) College and University Rankings Babel Fish Translation Virtual Reference Shelf Online Reference Resources from the Gateway Library Infoplease Library Spot USGS and USBM Report and Map Series Call Numbers Guide Citation Linker Online Newspapers - free source lists newspapers by location Benchmark Data: The National Geodetic Survey maintains this database of information on benchmarks. Tidal Benchmarks: NOAA's U.S. National Ocean Service provides an index to states and geographical areas where the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) maintains Published Benchmark Sheets. Specific stations are listed within each area. Schlow Centre Region Library
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Invisible/Deep Web OAIster STINET Multisearch TechXtra in Engineering, Math. and Computing Google Books Online Books page Images, Movies, etc. Research Channel - online lecures on all types of topics Classroom Clipart Exalead – groups results by image size Ditto AltaVista Internet Archive Movie Archive Directory of Image Search Engines Google Image Search Picsearch FreeStockPhotos.com NOAA photo library Making of American Image Collections Blinkx - videos search engine Search Engines and Tools About.com AltaVista Ask.com Clusty – metasearch engine Dogpile – metasearch engine Google Google Scholar HotBot Ixquick – metasearch engine Mooter – graphic clusers/relevance Search Cloud – allows weighting of terms Scitopia – free sci-tech search tool TechExtra – multiresource search engine for sci-tech Yahoo WorldWideScience – free sci-tech search tool Wayback Machine (mirror site) DOI Resolver FilEXT Search Sherpa - Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving FileInfo.net - Resource for file extension information	NOAA art and poetry EMS Museum and Art Gallery Forensic Meteorology – Where Art and Weather Meet (Environment Canada) Art and Maps - special issue of Cartographic Perspectives no.53 (Winter 2006) "Ice and snow paintings in the Little Ice Age winters" Weather v.60, no.2 (February 2005):37-41 "A special effect: the impressionists paint winter" Weatherwise v.52, no. 1 (1999):22-27. Touches on the influence of the Little Ice Age. huracan - an edited journal dedicated to the poetics of hurricanes. OMMS (on Map Miliary Strategy) game - a board game you play using a local map, a deck of cards, and coins. Geocaching
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Wikiality - This 4-minute video (circa 2006) by Stephen Colbert is a humerous way to illustrate to students the dangers of trusting variable Web content such as Wikipedia entries.

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