You will have noticed by now that most of the travel web sites offer links to major hotel and restaurant information. Information is provided on the accommodations, prices, and near-by tourist attractions. There are thousands of web sites for consumer health information. But two relatively new sites are especially useful. Health Reference Center provides access to more than 250,000 articles from health publications and professional journals.
Attractive photographs grace many of the pages.
You may have had visions of lounging around your home office in bathrobe and slippers while sipping coffee and scoffing at those stuck in rush hour traffic. You'd set your own schedule and the boss wouldn't be looking over your shoulder. Many Library users enjoy researching their family's history. The Library has helped genealogists by providing books on how to do family research, as well as by identifying books of family and local history and then borrowing the books from around the country through the OCLC electronic network. The Web is rapidly becoming a favorite tool of genealogical researchers.