four-layered pyramid as index to page    CROP (Communities Resolving Our Problems):
the basic idea
[SUP: Sharing Problems] [THINK: Guidance] [LEAP: Solving Problems]

Virtual Library Layer: The Things Pyramid
Guide to Effective Virtual Library Searching (the details)
Pro
Encarta ; E-Library.com ; NC Wise Owl ; Encyclopedia Britannica ; Maps;  Time Magazine ; Search CNN Archives ; Search USA Today Database ; The Web version of The New York Times ; U.S. News & World Report ; Yahoo's Online Commerce Index ; International Children's Digital Library;  free eBooks On-line ; Gutenburg Project ebooks ; Radio Gutenberg book readings ; Amazon.com's Search Inside the Book ; the "deep web"
Reviewed Web Information
The Scout Report ; W3C Virtual Library ; About.com ; Social Science Information Gateway   Teaching Plans: Apple Learning Exchange ; LearnNC. Tagging Sites: Del.icio.us ; Furl.net ; Kaboodle ; Reddit ; Wink ; Shadows ; PreFound ; Yahoo My Web ; Digg
Subject Catalogs of Web Information
Librarians Internet Index ; Open Directory Project ; LookSmart ; Yahoo ; Internet Public Library ; Virtual Tourist  ; CyberDewey ; The Study Web ; Wikipedia. For Kids: Yahoo for Kids ; Kid Tools ; Ivy's Kid Safe Search Sites
Robot Collected Web Sites
Concept/Cluster Searching: Excite ; Teoma ; Clusty ; Kartoo ; Grokker    Safety Search: SiteAdvisor ; Scandoo ; Scroogle Word searching:  Google ; Cuil; Yahoo owned ( AlltheWeb - Alta Vista )  ; AOL search (Google)  ; AskJeeves ; MS Live Search ; HotBot (Inktomi) ; Lycos ; Snap ; Webcrawler ; Gigablast ; A9 ; Internet Archive's Wayback Machine   Metasearching: Dogpile ; Infospace ; Dataware ; IXQuick ; MetaCrawler ; Profusion ; Meta- search.com ; Internet Sleuth ; Personalized News ; Yahoo Bots   For Kids: Ask Jeeves for Kids ; OneKey  Multimedia: Ask Images AltaVista I ; Google I ; All the Web; Flickr ; WebShots Audio AltaVista A ; All the Web A; Video AltaVista V ; All the Web ; YahooVideo ; Google Video ; Audio-Video Singingfish; Blinkx.tv
Guide to Effective Virtual Library Searching (the details)
Person Place

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