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
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 ; LibriVox ; Amazon.com's Search Inside the Book ; Google Search Inside Books ; the "deep web"
Reviewed Web Information
The Scout Report ; Virtual Library ; About.com ; Social Science Information Gateway   Teaching Plans: LearnNC.; Scholastic lesson plans Tagging Sites: Delicious ; Diigo ; Reddit; Digg
Subject Catalogs of Web Information

Open Directory Project ;Yahoo Dir ; Internet Public Library ; Virtual Tourist  ; CyberDewey ; Wikipedia. For Kids: Ivy's Search ; KidsClick ; more.
Robot Collected Web Sites

Text Real Time: 48ers ; SocialMention ; SocialMention ; Topsy Semantic Search: Eyeplorer ; Wolfram Alpha ; Bing Concept/Cluster Searching: Excite ; Ask ; Clusty ; Kartoo ; Grokker    Safety Search: SiteAdvisor ; Scandoo ; Scroogle Word searching:  Google ; Cuil; Yahoo owned ( Yahoo d - All the Web -Alta Vista )  ; AOL search (Google)  ; AskJeeves ;HotBot (Inktomi) ; Lycos ; Snap ; Webcrawler ; Gigablast ; Internet Archive's Wayback Machine   Metasearching: Dogpile ; Superpages ; IXQuick ; MetaCrawler ; Meta- search.com ; Rollyo ; Internet Sleuth ; Personalized News ; Yahoo Bots   For Kids: Ask Jeeves for Kids ; OneKey  News: Google News; Yahoo News; Bing News Hyperlocal News: EveryBlock ; Outside.in ; Patch Images Flickr ; Google I ; WebShots Specialized: Mindmaps ; Qwika ; SE Guide ; SE Collossus Audio FindSounds ; More Transcribed Media Search Koemei ; Mobento Music: Discover Music ; Songza; Music Search ; More Audio-Video Blogdigger ; Blinkx.tv ; TVeyes ; Podscope Video YouTube ; YahooVideo ; Google Video ; 2D Animation: GIF ; Flash 3D: Princeton ; Sketchup Warehouse Sensors Sensor Search Center ; Temperature

Guide to Effective Virtual Library Searching (the details)
Person Place

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