Cynthia Lee Katona, Professor - English and Women's Studies Departments

Resources: Government

This page provides links to a number of government sites ranging from the Library of Congress, to the White House, to the official CIA website.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

One excellent feature of this site is the search tool which helps you find information on setting salaries or tracking benefits, the economy, surveys, publications, regional information, and research papers. [Source: Management on the World Wide Web]

Centers for Disease Control

This government site offers consumer and policy information on health matters plus links to a slew of health statistics. [Source: MacUser]

Library of Congress

Through the Library of Congress you can obtain full text of pending legislation, including any related to freedom of speech and privacy issues. You can also use the links to Internet resources selected by the LOC librarians, exploring, for example, their Guide to Law Online. [Source: The Wired Society, by Carol Lea Clark]

NASA

Perhaps the most visible of sites celebrating technology, NASA offers photos from the Mars landing, a wide variety of information about human space flight, "Mission to Planet Earth," a project dedicated to understanding and predicting weather patterns on earth, and a number of other high-tech exhibits. [Source: The Wired Society, by Carol Lea Clark]

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Net

Check up on Congress--search the Congressional Record, find out the status of a bill, or share a piece of your mind with that special someone on Capitol Hill. [Source: MacUser]

The White House

The White House World Wide Website maintains an online archive of press releases and other documents issued by the White House. You can search here for documents related to the Internet and telecommunications. [Source: The Wired Society, by Carol Lea Clark]

The World FactBook

Published by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), this wonderful resource contains maps and vital statistics about countries around the world. If you want to learn about the terrain of Bolivia, this is the place to go. [Source: MacUser]

Zip+4Code Lookup

Enter an address; if found in their database, this interactive tool standardizes the address, returns the ZIP+4 code and provides the county name. [Source: Management on the World Wide Web]