| The following is a list of web sites that library staff have found particularly useful, or interesting (or both!). However, please note that staff have no responsibility for, or control over, the content of the pages to which these links refer.
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Searching the Internet
- WebWise - BBC
guide to using the Internet, for beginner and advanced user
alike
- Yahoo! How-To - a
beginner's guide for Web surfers
- Yahoo! - the Web's most
popular search service (and the largest human-compiled guide
to the Web)
- AltaVista - one
of the largest search engines
- Google
- Dún Laoghaire
on Dublin's Riviera - comprehensive directory site for
Dún Laoghaire area
- Dogpile - popular
metasearch engine - sends your search to several search engines
all at once
- Ask Jeeves - allows
users to pose questions in plain English - no need for quotes,
etc
- Search Engine
Watch - rates search engines and provides tutorials on
how best to use them
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E-mail
| Set up your own free e-mail account in minutes - the following are just a few examples of freemail sites:
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Young People
Education and Careers
- ScoilNet - for students, parents and teachers
- TopStudy - includes links to primary and secondary schools in Ireland, a developing database of past papers, and an interactive English-Irish dictionary
- LeavingCert.net - recommended study resource site covering a growing number of Leaving Cert subjects
- CareerNet - directory site with extensive links to third-level courses in Ireland and Britain. Also contains links to careers information databases such as Gairm, a database of over 300 careers in Ireland
- FÁS - the training and employment authority - includes online job-bank for jobseekers and employers
- Discover Guidance - an adult education guidance service and a central element of Dún Laoghaire VEC's Adult Education Programme
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Media
Government
Local History and Genealogy
Reference
Libraries, Catalogues, Books
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