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Berkeley Information Network (BIN)

• Berkeley Information Network — An extensive database identifying social services in the Berkeley area. A service of Berkeley Public Library. See General Information lists for guides to types of services such as airport shuttles, bookstores, emergency meals, joblines, radio stations, and voter registration.

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Career Information

• Chronicle Careers — Job listings from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
  
  
• FTE EmployNet — The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) EmployNet provides listings of job opportunities in religion and theology within ATS-accredited seminaries and accredited graduate programs of religion.
  
  
• Openings — Monthly job listings published by the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature; online site is available to AAR and/or SBL members only. These listings also appear in the Religious Studies News, which is available in the Current Periodicals section of the GTU Library.
• MinistryConnect — "Opportunities in service to others: employment, volunteerism, educational and spriritual programs."
• InterCristo — A fee-based Christian job placement service.
• JobStar California — Information on resume writing, salaries, and career planning, with links to job listings in California. A service of the Bay Area Library & Information System (BALIS), a regional library agency serving public libraries in the Bay Area.

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Chronology/Historical Events

• Worldwide Historic Dates and Events — Scope Systems' site which lists births and deaths of famous individuals, historic events, religious observances, and religious history for any day of the year.
  
  
• Ecole Chronology Project — Temporal and geographical model of events, persons, and places that are pertinent in some way to early Church history.

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Citation/Style Guides

• The Chicago Manual of Style — Q & A forum for the renowned style guide.
  
  
• Footnote and Citation Style Guides — Lehigh University Libraries have compiled a set of links which summarize instructions for generating footnotes and bibliographies in various subject disciplines.
  
  
• Elements of Style — An electronic version of the first edition of William Strunk, Jr.'s work (1918). The Library has a copy of the 3rd edition (SFTS PE1408 .S772 1979)

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Colleges and Universities

• Peterson's Education Supersite — Identify colleges, universities, and graduate programs by name of the institution, by geography, by major, and by religious affiliation. Also includes information on distance learning, study abroad, and much more.
  
  
• College and University Home Pages — An alphabetical list of over 3,000 American and foreign colleges and universities. A geographical listing is also available. Site created and maintained by Christina De Mello, MIT.
  
  
• American Universities — Home pages for American colleges and universities, alphabetically listed by institution name.

See also the section on Seminaries/Theological Schools/Bible Colleges below.

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Commute/Local Transportation

• MapQuest — Maps and driving directions.
  
  
• San Francisco Bay Area Transit Information — Fares, schedules, and maps for several Bay Area transit agencies, including AC Transit, BART, and Muni.

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Copyright

• United States Copyright Office — Located at the Library of Congress. Site includes general information and publications, registration forms, and other copyright information.



• Copyright Management Center — Learn more about copyright through this joint-venture website created by Indiana University, Purdue Univeristy, and Indianapolis.
• Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. — Obtain permission to reproduce copyrighted content such as articles and book chapters in your journals, photocopies, coursepacks, library reserves, Web sites, e-mail and more.

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Dictionaries and Thesauri

• English
  • American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language — Fourth edition (2000).
  • WWWebster Dictionary — Web version of the 10th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (1993).
    
  • Wordsmyth English Dictionary Thesaurus — Integrated English dictionary and thesaurus in electronic form presented by Robert Parks and the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago.
    
  • Webster 's Revised Unabridged Dictionary — 1913 edition from the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago.

• French
  • French-English/English-French Dictionary — From the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago, containing about 75,000 terms.

• German
• LEO — An Online Service by Informatik der Technischen Universitat Munchen

• Greek
  • Intermediate Liddell-Scott Greek Lexicon — From the Perseus Project at Tufts University, this Greek-English dictionary provides basic definitions.
    

• Spanish
  • Diccionario de Espanol — From the Universidad de Oviedo, Servicio Comun de Informatica Grafica

• Thesauri
  • Roget's Thesaurus — 1911 edition from the ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago.
    
  • Thesaurus.com

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Encyclopedias

• The Catholic Encyclopedia — A Web version of The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline and History of the Catholic Church (Appleton; 1907-1912), provided by the New Advent Catholic Supersite. A copy of the print version may be found in the Reference Collection (BX841 .C25 1913).
  
  
• Early Church On-Line Encyclopedia — From the Ecole Initiative at the University of Evansville, this is a hypertext encyclopedia of early Church history to the Reformation. Includes short and long essays on numerous topics and figures, translations of Judeo-Christian and Islamic primary sources, a chronology, and images of religious art.



• Columbia Encyclopedia — Sixth edition (2001).

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Geneaology

• Family Tree Maker Online — From the makers of Family Tree Maker software.



• Genealogy Home Page — Sponsored by Family Tree Maker Online, this site provides links to many excellent genealogy resources.



• Ancestors — The homepage for Ancestors, a family history and genealogy television series presented by KBYU-TV in association with PBS. Provides links to other genealogy sites.



• The RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative

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Geography and Maps