Contents:
PA Facts & History
| Business, Industry, & Tourism
| Education, Libraries, & Museums
| Government & Politics
| Regional & Local Resources
| PSU Libraries' Related Pages
Pennsylvania Facts, History, & Statistics
- Accessible Archives Inc.: Primary Source Material from 18th & 19th Century Periodicals [Historical Pennsylvania publications] (Penn State Users Only)
- America's Newspapers: Pennsylvania (Newsbank® inc.) (Penn State Users Only)
- Digitized Collections at Penn State > Images [various Pennsylvania history pictorial collections]
- Doc Heritage ["...images of historical documents, narratives placing them in a regional, state or national context, and, where appropriate, transcriptions of each record as well as helpful links for further research." (website, 3/28/2007); a "Best of the Humanities on the Web" Award recipient for 2005-6 from the National Endowment for the Humanities] (Pennsylvania State Archive)
- E-Guide (Subject Index) to Health Statistics for Pennsylvania, Counties and Communities (PA Dept. of Health)
- ExplorePAhistory.com [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanites on the Web" Award recipient for 2003-04]
- FIPA: Families in Pennsylvania [demographics; information on early pregnancy and childbearing; trends in health and family income; facts on families, health, and common terms; rural health; rural youth education] (PSU)
- Hello, Pennsylvania: a quick tour of the Commonwealth
- Kidon Media Link: News Sources from Pennsylvania
- Oral History Online (Penn State Users Only)
- PA History: People, Places, Events, Things (PA Historical and Museum Commission)
- PAGenWeb: Pennsylvania Genealogy
- Pennsylvania (Netstate.com)
- Pennsylvania Ethnic History: Exploring Diversity in Pennsylvania History (Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
- Pennsylvania Chronology (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh)
- Pennsylvania Election Statistics, 1682-2006: The Wilkes University Election Statistics Project
- Pennsylvania Facts (Pennsylvania Visitors Network)
- Pennsylvania History (PA General Assembly)
- Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (PA Historical Ass'n and The University Libraries, PSU)
- Pennsylvania History Pictorial Collections
- Pennsylvania Railways (parailways.com)
- Pennsylvania State University Libraries Digitized Collections
- Pennsylvania Trail of History (PA Historical & Museum Commission)
- Pennsylvania Vital Statistics [births, deaths, injury deaths, marriage and divorce statistics] (Pa Dept. of Health)
- Pennsylvania's National Historic Landmarks (PA Historical and Museum Commission)
- Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library (Thomas Jefferson University)
- State of the Child: Census Data Fact Sheets for Pennsylvania Counties (Pennsylvania Partnership for Children)
- State of Pennsylvania: Profile of Drug Indicators [illegal drug use statistics]
- The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War [Franklin County, PA and Augusta County, VA] (Virginia Center for Digital History)
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Business, Industry, & Tourism
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Education, Libraries, & Museums
- Access Pennsylvania (Penn State Users Only)
- Education Names and Addresses (PA Dept. of Education)
- O'Connor-Yeager Collection: Pennsylvania Prints from the Palmer Museum of Art [Description from website: "A collection of printed Pennsylvania town views, portraits, maps, and historical scenes....., this collection of 330 prints...includes lithographs, engravings, aquatints, photogravures, and woodcuts created by artists of the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries."] (Penn State Users Only)
- Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) (Penn State Users Only)
- Pennsylvania Book World (PA Center for the Book, PSU)
- Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities (50states.com)
- Pennsylvania Community Colleges (50states.com)
- Pennsylvania Department of Education
- Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
- Pennsylvania Landmarks and Museums - Art + History Travel Guide: Links to Pennsylvania Museums (MuseumStuff.com)
- Pennsylvania Libraries on the Web
- Pennsylvania State University Home Page
- Behrend Beacon [1948-1989, also includes Nittany Cub, Behrend Collegian, Penn State Behrend Collegian, Collegian, The Behrend College Collegian] (PSUL, Behrend)
- Historical Digital Collegian Archives (PSU Libraries)
- Narrative History of Penn State Altoona (PSU Libraries)
- The Ogontz School 1850-1950 (PSU Libraries)
- Penn State Fact Book
- Penn State Pulse: Research and Assessment [gathers feedback on student issues, expectations, usage, and satisfaction]
- Penn State University Calendar of Events
- Press Pass, the University's Virtual Media Information Office, open 24/7
- University Park Campus History Collection: The Growth of Penn State's Largest Campus (PSU Libraries)
Regional Libraries for the Blind and Handicapped
Services for Students with Disabilities (PA State System of Higher Education)
State Library of Pennsylvania (Bureau of State Library)
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Government & Politics
- About Counties: Pennsylvania (National Association of Counties)
- Centre County Government
- Centre County Government: Municipal Officials Directory
- Centre Region Council of Governments
- Creating A Commonwealth: A Guide to Your State Government (PA General Assembly)
- Help in PA [Pennsylvania Health & Human Service Web Portal--one-stop online guide to services, programs, agencies, and organizations serving children, families, adults, and older adults in Pennsylvania]
- Local Government [includes links for state, county, township governmental agencies, school districts, conservation districts, and other local resources]
- PA PowerPort: Government in Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
- Pennsylvania Department of Health
- Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
- Pennsylvania Department of Revenue: Forms and Publications
- Pennsylvania Department of State: Commissions, Elections & Legislation
- Pennsylvania Driver and Vehicle Services
- Pennsylvania General Assembly
- Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Pennsylvania Manual [comprehensive guide to Pennsylvania's government]
- Pennsylvania Office of Energy and Technology Deployment
- Pennsylvania State and Local Government (statelocalgov.net)
- Pennsylvania State Data Center
- Pennsylvania State Senate
- Pennsylvania's Driver's Manuals
- Pennsylvania's Unified Judicial System
- Public Safety Information: Fact Sheets and Guides (Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency)
- Yahoo! Search Directory: Pennsylvania: Government
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Regional & Local Resources
- AOLCity Guide: State College - Real Estate
- Bethelem Digital History Project [description from website: "provides online access to digitized primary source materials, transcriptions, translations and contextual information relating to the early history of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1741 - 1844"; a "Best of the Humanities on the Web" Award recipient for 2005-6 from the National Endowment for the Humanities"]
- Centre County Federation Of Public Libraries
- Centre County Genealogy
- CentreConnect.org: Your link to Government, Education, and Non-Profit Information in Centre County, PA
- CentreCountyInfo
- Cooperative Extension & Outreach: PSU County Extension Offices
- Daniel Boone's Homestead
- Discover Appalachia [interactive map] (nationalgeographic.com)
- Historic Pittsburgh [full-text historical resources, maps, images, archival finding aids, census records, and chronology for Pittsburgh, PA] (UPittsburgh)
- National Weather Service, State College, PA
- PA PowerPort: Local Government
- State College Kids (statecollegekids.com)
- StateCollege.com
- Susquehanna River Birding and Wildlife Trail
- Unofficial Guide to State College, PA: A Narrative for New State Collegians and Visitors
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See also these PSU Libraries' related pages:
Arts and Humanities Library:
Earth and Mineral Sciences:
Gateway Library:
News and Microforms Library
Pennsylvania Center for the Books:
Social Sciences Library:
Special Collections Library:
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