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NARA - AAD - Main Page. 100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything. Posted by Site Administrator in Online Learning May 7th, 2009 Learning new skills and expanding your knowledge doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg.

100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything

There are loads of free resources on the Web that can help you find instructional videos, tutorials and classes to learn a wide variety of skills from fixing basic car problems to speaking another language. With 100 sites to choose from, you’re bound to find something here that will help you learn just about anything you could want. General Tutorials These sites offer a wide range of tutorials and videos. Around the House Want to know how to fix that broken cabinet or hang up some great wallpaper? Business and Management If you feel like you’re seriously lacking on business and management skills at work, no need to worry. KnowThis? Language and Writing Those who want to learn a new language, improve their writing skills or just learn more about literature will be well-served by these instructional sites.

Technology Math S.O.S. Science Creativity. THE BRITISH LIBRARY - The world's knowledge. 100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access « mary & mac design. Universities house an enormous amount of information and their libraries are often the center of it all.

100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access « mary & mac design

You don’t have to be affiliated with any university to take advantage of some of what they have to offer. From digital archives, to religious studies, to national libraries, these university libraries from around the world have plenty of information for you. There are many resources for designers as well. Although this is mainly a blog that caters to designers and artists I have decided to include many other libraries for all to enjoy. Capturing images of manuscripts, art, and artifacts, digital libraries are an excellent way of both preserving the past and sharing it with everyone. Harvard University Library. These digital libraries either have a focus on a culture other than that of the United States or are housed in another country.

The Digital South Asia Library. These libraries offer books or texts for you to read online and free of charge. Universal Digital Library. The Seven Steps of the Research Process. Guides. Paste the text you want to speed read.

How to: Find ANYTHING on the Internet. Photo by Dullhunk Tips, tricks and resources to help you find that digital needle in the huge cyber-haystack.

How to: Find ANYTHING on the Internet

Learning to navigate the World Wide Web effectively is an important skill, and there are lots of different ways for you to find the information you are looking for. Whilst the following list of tips and websites is by no means exhaustive – and we’ve missed out on some massive topics except travel, which deserve a post in their own right – they should be enough to get you started. Using Google Operator Hacks One of the things I love about Google is its clean layout – just type your query and hit enter. Here is a selection of some useful ones: And don’t forget if you want to visit a site that is down, or that your company’s server won’t let you access, you can view the Cached version to see a Google snapshot of that page from when it was last crawled.

Photo by author. Online Research Biblical text: Find specific text from the Bible at BibleGateway. Photo by Shirone Koeuro. Online University Libraries. Popular quotes (page 2 of 2000)