Automobile Resources
Kelley Blue Book
Kelley Blue Book is the nation's leading provider of automotive pricing and value information, for new and used cars, trucks and vans. Customers rely on Kelley for dealer invoice and MSRP information on new vehicles and trade-in & retail values on used vehicles up to 21 years old.
Edmunds
Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guide with a wealth of information on new and used vehicles.
MSN Autos
A complete source for car buying information. Has reliability ratings, a payment calculator, America's 10 bestsellers, used car prices and "surround videos" (experience 55 auto interiors).
Housing Resources
Trulia
Compare prices and popularity by neighborhood, city, county, or state. See local market trends for listing and sales prices. Find out where the most popular areas for home buyers are.
Free Credit Report Information
Free Credit Reports
An amendment to the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires each of the nationwide consumer reporting companies to provide you with a free copy of your credit report, at your request, once every 12 months, according to this site from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Info on how to obtain this copy of your credit report is provided along with answering other frequently asked questions.
Grants
SAM.gov
Includes assistance information that was contained in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance and other federal information.
California Grants Portal
The California Grants Portal (a project by the California State Library) is your one destination to find all grants and loans offered on a competitive or first-come basis by California state agencies.
Online Books
National Emergency Library
Some 1.4 million eBooks may be borrowed without having to wait for a copy to become available through June 30, 2020, or the end of the US national emergency, whichever is later.
Digital Public Library of America
Internet Archive
Offers free public access to 2.5 million fully downloadable public domain books, which do not require waitlists to view.
The Online Books Page
Search for thousands of English-language books that are available in free full text for reading in personal, non-commercial use.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is dedicated to making public domain texts easily accessible to everyone. Their extensive list includes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. You can search by author or title.
FreeBookNotes.com
The original and largest literature study guide search engine on the web.
Audiobooks Downloadable
Free audiobooks can downloaded from these three sites. Most of the available titles are usually literature classics.
LibriVox
Free Classic Audio Books
Online Study Guides
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In partnership with Driving-Tests.org, the San Bernardino Public Library is proud to offer FREE California Driver Permit practice tests for both automobile and motorcycle. A Driver Handbook for each is also available.
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Language Learning Library
LanguageLearningLibrary.org is a comprehensive language learning portal on the web offering highly relevant and useful language learning related resources. It was created to meet the needs of both teachers and students alike. This site will save time and frustration from the usual web search. We surfed the net so you don't have to, and compiled the most comprehensive and well organized information available.
SparkNotes
Free study guides for literature and other subjects and full texts of classic literature are among what's available at this site.
People
Population Clocks
Up to the second information on U.S. and world population figures.
Vietnam Memorial Wall
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. Searchable list of all names on the wall and also includes links to other Vietnam and Veteran sites.
Social Security Death Index
Lists date of death for nearly 70 million individuals current to the past couple months. Valuable tool for genealogy searching.
Cyndi's List of genealogy Sites on the Internet
Over 21,700 genealogy web sites, mailing lists, ftp sites, e-mail addressed and more, categorized and cross-referenced in over 70 categories. This mega site is about the best basic starting point for genealogical research both inside and outside this country.
Baby Names
Welcome to the Baby Name page! If you're looking for information on what baby names are popular and which are not then you are in the right place. Data is available for 2004, about 20,000 names are in each sample year. You may choose a list sorted alphabetically or by popularity. No information on the meaning or origin of names.
History of Costumes
This site is a history of costumes, color illustrations throughout.
Phone Books
Business and Residential Online Phonebooks
White Pages
This site enables you to search either home or business phone listings.
Infobel
Lots of different phone number search engines including reverse directories.
800-Numbers.net
Pro Consumer website that contains toll free 800 numbers for many different companies. that will provide access to the information they seek.
Superpages
Yellow Pages directory of 10 million U.S. businesses & a database of more than 50,000 of the most popular sites on the Web.
Public Transportation
Real Time Traffic
IE511.org and 511 phone service is a one-stop phone and web service for transportation information in Southern California's Inland Empire. Both the website and telephone service are owned and operated through a partnership of the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) and the San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG).
CHP Traffic Incident Page
Real-time traffic incidents are reported by the California Highway Patrol throughout the state with reports from its various coverage areas.
LA Metro
Rail & bus info for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro)
Registered Sex Offenders (Megan's Law)
Registered Sex Offenders (Megan's Law)
California Department of Justice's Internet web site, which lists designated registered sex offenders in California, is available to be searched several ways along with various related information
Research
EASYBIB
EASYBIB is an online MLA & APA bibliography maker that helps students automatically cite sources for their research papers. This website is the most popular service of its kind, used by over 2 million students a month during the school year and promoted by educators as a means to accurately cite sources. MLA & APA bibliography reference guides are available.
Create a Graph
Provides a way to create charts and graphs that include bar graphs, pie charts, line graphs, or area charts with information that you enter.
CIA World Factbook
The CIA World Factbook lists the latest information about all the countries of the world including a map of the country, the national flag, and information about geography, climate, natural resources, demographics, government, economy, communication, transportation, military and transnational issues.
Nationmaster.com
Provides various statistics on countries that can be converted into graphs.
LC Country Studies
Prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. This online series presently contains studies of more than 100 countries; each study includes topics such as geography, society, economy, history, population, social structure, industry, government and lots more; some entries include maps, photos, timelines, and graphs.
Information Please Online
Search or browse the Information Please Almanac, Entertainment Almanac, Sports Almanac, Columbia Encyclopedia and the Random House College Dictionary online, by subject or full text keyword. Each week the site features a topic such as El Nino or the Academy Awards with links to the Almanac.
Refdesk.com
A comprehensive listing of Internet sites on news, stocks, general and specific topic info, search engines, fun stuff, writing WWW documents, and free stuff.
MegaConverter
MegaConverter is a set of weights, measures and units conversion/calculation modules. MegaConverters allow users to discover things like how many seconds old they are, the difference between a gallon in the USA and a gallon in the UK, how many nanometers in an inch, how many quarts in a chaldron, and what the heck a nebuchadnezzar is. For just about anything you can think of, MegaConverter can show you its equivalent. They're convenient, educational and fun.
Online Conversion
Provides tools to perform a wide variety of conversions of figures.
HowStuffWorks
Gives step-by-step information with illustrations on how to do certain activities and how other items work.
Zip Codes
Zip code directory.
ERIC Home Page
Searchable ERIC archives of unpublished research papers.
Famous Quotes & Authors
The project is to introduce people to quotations and sayings by famous people from the past and the present.
Rumors and Hoaxes
Internet Fraud Complaint Center
You may file a complaint, see tips and view warnings related to fraud over the Internet at this site that is partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C).
Cybercrime.gov
This site from the U.S. Dept. of Justice provides information on which crimes should be reported to appropriate law enforcement investigative authorities at the local, state, federal, or international levels, depending on the scope of the crime.
Urban Legends Reference Page
Another site that follows Internet hoaxes, spam and other schemes.
Social Service Referrals
San Bernardino County 211 Get Connected, Get Answers
This site provides Social Service referrals on where to go for Basic Needs, Food, Shelter, Legal, Health Care, and Educational Support Services to name a few. Majority of Services are located in San Bernardino County.
Making Home Affordable
New web site has extensive information, including self assessment tools to allow borrowers to determine if they are eligible for the program; a calculator feature that allows homeowners to estimate the reduction to their monthly mortgage payment that they might stand to realize under the plan ; Resources to find free, HUD-approved counseling services for borrowers who have additional questions and a handy checklist to ensure homeowners collect all the documents they need before calling their servicers.
Benefits.gov
Benefits.gov is the official benefits website of the U.S. government, with information on over 1,000 benefit and assistance programs.
Subsidized Apartment Search
The housing choice voucher program (Section 8) is the federal government's major program for assisting very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market," according to the site. The site allows you to search by ways including city, county, zip code, apartment type and number of bedrooms.