Writers' resources
Published: April 29, 2005
Off-desk time resources
Books
Commercial Break: The Complete Couch Potato's Guide to Fitness by Linda Buch and Seth Anne Snider-Copley
Sin & Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale
Zen Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation by Frederick Franck
Online
Library Spot Links to libraries of all kinds--worldwide--and their collections, from the mundane to the arcane.
www.libraryspot.com
World Museums Online Links to an amazing range of collections in the world's museums.
http://vlmp.museophile.com/world.html
World Wide Words Spend too long here and you may never get back to work!
www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
Useful electronic databases available at many public libraries include:
Ebscohost Full-text articles from nearly 1,800 periodicals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,700 periodicals.
Business Dateline Full-text articles from more than 550 U.S. and Canadian newspapers, city business magazines and wire services.
Elibrary Magazine and newspaper articles, photos, radio and television transcripts.
Medline Abstracted articles from over 3,500 professional medical, dental and nursing journals.
Newsbank United States Newspapers Full text of 100-plus newspapers.
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