Reference Links: Local Festivals

Local Festivals

• Global Fest
• Indiana Fiddlers Gathering
• Lay Flats Arts & Music Festival
• Feast of the Hunters Moon
• Dancing in the Streets

Reference Links: Local History

History

West Lafayette Memories project on going historical research about West Lafayette.  A joint project of faculty from Purdue University and the West Lafayette Public Library.

• Tour De West Lafayette
• Tour De Lafayette
• C-Span archive of City & County Council Minutes
• West Lafayette Public Library Board Minute Archive from 1921 through 1940
• Tippecanoe County Historical Society & The Feast of the Hunters' Moon
• Wabash-Erie Canal Association WebSite
• Archaeological Research Resources
• Lost Indiana
• Indiana State Library
• AnthroSource

Reference Links: Local Media

Local Media

• Lafayette Journal & Courier
• TV 18
• Purdue Exponent
• Monticello Herald Journal
• Kokomo Tribune
• Logansport's Pharos-Tribune
• WASK 98.7 and 1450 - oldies.
• WKHY 93.5 Lafayette, IN - real rock.
• WKOA 105.3 - country music.
• WBAA: Public Radio from Purdue FM101.3, AM 920

Reference Links: Local Recreation

• Local Recreation
• Get Out of Town!, online guide to local recreation by Eric Thiel
• Indiana Dept. of Natural Resources' Outdoor Guide, including Indiana Canoeing Trails, Indiana Bicycling Facilities & Indiana Hiking
• Tippecanoe County Historical Society & The Feast of the Hunters' Moon
• West Lafayette Parks and Recreation - includes Morton Center class information
• Lafayette Parks and Recreation includes Columbian Park and Tropicanoe Cove
• Tippecanoe County Parks
• Wabash-Erie Canal Association (Nice trails!)
• Canal Society of Indiana
• Indiana Waterways
• Lafayette - West Lafayette Convention and Visitors Bureau
• littleIndiana - blog about Indiana small towns and there food and attractions.  Check out the Indiana Blogs section for links to other Hoosier bloggers.

Reference Links: Books - What to Read

Books, What to Read

• Library Leaves - West Lafayette Public Library's Book Blog
• Morton Grove Public Library Webrary, Web Sites for Book Lovers
• Kent District Library, What's Next Database
• Monroe County Public Library SeriesList
• Wakefield Library' Booklists
• Book Smugglers
• Thrilling Detective Website
• allreaders.com
• allreaders.com book search
• Mystery Reader
• Romance Reader
• Barnes & Nobel's Christian Fiction
• Mid-Continent Public Library Kids Series

Reference Links: Business

Business, Careers & Jobs

• Credit Reports at www.annualcreditreport.com
• Business:
  • INSPIRE, magazine indexes, encyclopedias, and other databases, including the new the Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC) designed to help students — from high school to graduate school to specialty school and beyond and the Small Business Resource Center for how-to information on small business planning, bookkeeping, financing, human resource management, marketing, regional tax laws or starting a home-based business
  • Better Business Bureau
  • Small Business Administration
  • Entrepreneur.com
  • SCORE.org
• Job Hunting:
  • Learn More Indiana - The Indiana college and career connection.
  • Government Jobs
  • Purdue Jobs
  • Glassdoor.com - the best 50 places to work
  • The Scientist - best places to work for scientists
  • Jobtrak
  • Career Advice from Monster.com
• Green Your Business
  • B Corp
  • Center for Small Business and the Environment
  • Ecopreneurist
  • Greenbiz
  • Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
  • Kiva.org - microfinancing through the Internet - loans that change lives

Reference Links: College

College:

• ICN - The Indiana College Network (ICN), a partnership of the state's colleges and universities, is Indiana's clearinghouse for information about college classes and degree programs available through the Internet, videotape, CD-ROM, satellite/cable television and correspondence. Housed at ICPAC, ICN helps facilitate course registration and provides free career and financial aid information to Hoosiers
• Purdue University
• IVY Tech Community College - Lafayette Campus
• Harrison College - Lafayette Campus
• INSPIRE, magazine indexes, encyclopedias, and other databases, including the new the Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC) designed to help students — from high school to graduate school to specialty school and beyond and the Small Business Resource Center for how-to information on small business planning, bookkeeping, financing, human resource management, marketing, regional tax laws or starting a home-based business
• National College Access Network
• All Online School Programs
• Online Schools in Indiana
• College Drinking Prevention

Reference Links: Computers

Computers & the Internet

• Digital Literacy Links and Instruction from the US Department of Commerce
• Test your connection speed at www.measurementlab.org
• Indiana Broadband Mapping Project Survey, help get good data about your broadband access to the Indiana Office of Technology
• WebReference
• Microsoft
• How to Burn Files to a CD in Windows XP
  • Version 1 from Of Zen and Computing
• Mashable - look in the footer under Resources for guidebooks and how-to articles regarding social media and other online technology
• Webresizer - resize your pictures for email and the web
• Free online PDF converter http://www.freepdfconvert.com/
• Computer Terminology
  • NetLingo Dictionary of Internet Words: A Glossary of Online Jargon with Definitions of Terminology & Acronyms
  • Matisse's Glossary of Internet Terms
  • whatis.com
  • Webopedia: Online Dictionary for Computer and Internet Terms
• Parenting and the online world
  • Information about Dealing with Cyberbullies
    • www.cyberbully411.org
    • www.GetNetWise.org
  • Safe Blogging links
    • www.ConnectSafely.org
    • www.GetNetWise.org
  • Filtering Software links
    • Filtering software reviews

• Privacy and Security on the Web

  • Phishing attacks in your email
    • DON'T BE A PHISH - Increase your online safety by playing the Phishing Scam Game
    • Anti-Phishing Working Group
  • Spam
    • spam.abuse.net
  • What are cookies and do I want them?
    • Cookie Central
    • Bake your own Internet Cookies at Privacy.net
    • Internet Explorer "Open Cookie Jar" at Peacefire
    • The Cookie Controversy by Lori Eichelberger M.L.I.S.
    • Being Traced over the Net at Privacy.net
  • Privacy Issues and Resources
    • Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project at W3C, with explainitory slide show
    • EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) Online Guide to Privacy Resources
    • Online Privacy Alliance
    • Pretty Good Privacy International
    • Rules and Tools for Protecting Personal Privacy Online at Privacy Alliance
    • Call For Action, Consumer Tips including articles like; The Telephone's New Hook on Phishing, It Looks Legit...but is it Phishing?, and Identity theft
  • Security Issues
• Better Business Bureau Online
• Consumer Protection Links at the Federal Trade Commission
• TRUSTe

Reference Links: Databases and Homework Help

Library Resources

 INSPIRE, magazine indexes, encyclopedias, and other databases, including the new the Testing & Education Reference Center (TERC) designed to help students — from high school to graduate school to specialty school and beyond and the Small Business Resource Center for how-to information on small business planning, bookkeeping, financing, human resource management, marketing, regional tax laws or starting a home-based business

The West Lafayette Public Library is now subscribing to ProQuest for access to articles in the past issues of the Journal and Courier and other newspapers.

If you are outside the library you will need your library card for access.

The library is also subscribing to AtoZdatabases. 

Premier Reference and Marketing Database including 30 million business profiles & 220 million residents.  Ideal for sales leads, mailing lists, market research, employment opportunities, finding friends and relatives, and much more!

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's Homework Hotline provides FREE math and science homework help to Indiana students.

• Tutors help students in grades 6-12.
• 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. (Eastern Time)
• Sunday - Thursday
• September - May

Call toll free at 1-877-ASK-ROSE.

The program is funded by Lilly Endowment, Inc. and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

  Click on the logo to go to NetLibrary and learn more about NetLibrary's eAudiobook collections. Then come into the West Lafayette Public Library and set up a free NetLibrary account and you will be able to access this eContent from home. You can look at the West Lafayette Public Library's e audio book collection - which is provided through NetLibrary - by visiting the NetLibrary site from the Library or while logged into your library account.  This eContent is made available through a multi-library cooperative purchase with other Indiana Libraries offered through INCOLSA.  This service seems to work the best with Internet Explorer.

Project Gutenberg - online access to many classic books and stories in full text

Librarians' Internet Index

TeachingBooks.net Author Name Pronunciation Guide

Reference Links: Electronic Resources

The library offers the following databases and electronic resources.

Databases

Proquest

AtoZDatabases

INSPIRE

Downloadable eBooks and eAudiobooks

Overdrive

NetLibrary

Project Gutenburg

Internet Archive - home of the wayback machine

Language Instruction

Muzzy Online for Kids

Mango Languages