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Agriculture: General

AGRICOLA

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a machine-readable database of bibliographic records created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. The records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition.

Agripedia | test

"Agripedia is an Internet Accessible Interactive Multimedia Instructional Resource, developed by the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture created with a USDA Higher Education Program Grant. As an "encyclopedia of agriculture", Agripedia presents facts, figures, demonstrations, examples, graphics, and more regarding the concepts, practices, and vocabulary of agriculture in a multimedia format using audio clips, graphics, text and animation." This is an excellent for anyone studying agriculture. annotation

Kentucky Economic Development Information System - Community Information

For many years the Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of Research has published Resources for Economic Development community guides. Produced in partnership with local economic development contacts and the Division of Site Evaluation, the Economic Development Information System provides current local economic development data on every major community across the state in a continuously updated web-based format. Statistical information presented includes community population, education, and employment by major industry.

Agriculture: Equine

American Association of Equine Practitioners

This site provides excellent veterinary information on the care and treatment of equines. This web site also provides links to additional equine resources.

Kentucky Equine Research

Kentucky Equine Research, Inc. (KER) is an equine nutrition, research, and consultation company. This web site is a good place to learn about equine nutrition.

Agriculture: Tobacco farming

The Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA

"Presents the Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA) in Pittsboro, North Carolina, which works to create unity among environmental, consumer, and farm groups in order to foster balanced agriculture. This site provides information on publications and projects, including issues such as organic and tobacco farming, and peanut pesticide reduction."

Kentucky Tobacco Settlement Trust Corporation

This site provides information for compensation from the National Tobacco Growers Settlement Trust.

Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association

This organization helps to maintain the price support program and representing producer concerns.

Technology: General

CNET

CNET is one of the definitive source for information about computers, the Internet, and digital technologies.

Living Internet

This site describes the internet's history, how it works, how to use it, advanced use, help, security issues, and help. The Living Internet is an excellent resource for anyone learning about the Internet.

KATE: Kentucky Academy of Technology Education

"The mission of the Kentucky Academy of Tech Education (KATE) is to impact student learning by improving the use of technology as an effective instructional tool. KATE is committed to providing visionary leadership and high-level technological resources to ensure that exemplary services are readily available to educators in the Commonwealth of Kentucky."

Technology: HTML

A Beginner's Guide to HTML

This site is a primer for producing HTML(Hypertext Markup Language) documents. This is a good place to start learning about HTML.

HTML Toolkit

This Toolkit is specifically to help librarians plan, develop, create, publicize, and manage a Web site. In this Toolkit, you'll find checklists related to planning and maintaining the pages you create. This site is published by EBSCOHost Publishing.

last updated: 4/11/01