Rates smaller cities on various measures; useful for market research, planning, city-to-city comparisons. Find link in the Careers section of Salem Online. The print version of this resource is in the Reference Department of Lawson McGhee Library.
Places and cultures
To research countries, states, provinces, and their cultures, there are several databases with resources for students of all ages. Here's our guide to where to start, by age group.
Maps the history, growth, and development of Tennessee cities, towns, and neighborhoods.
Builds all four core skills of a language: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. 100+ languages to choose from, and English lessons for speakers of over 25 different languages. Track progress through lessons. Kid-friendly lessons in 6 languages. Mobile app available. Provided by the Tennessee Electronic Library.
Downloadable magazines for news, commentary, current affairs, world geography and cultures include Condé Nast Traveler, Mother Jones, National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Economist, The New Yorker, Utne Reader, Harper's.
Compare cities of the United States on economic, crime and other measures.
Diverse articles provide a detailed portrait of how the Appalachian landscape has shaped each generation of its people.
Hundreds of volumes of encyclopedias and other ebooks covering all subject areas. Gale Virtual Reference Library is included in Gale PowerSearch which searches the content of the books along with magazines and other resources. If you want to browse the books as books, the Gale Virtual Reference Library is the better choice.
Contains dictionaries for place names and first and last names. This is a subcollection of Oxford Reference.
Covers fables, superstitions, mythology, folklore, food and sports. This is a subcollection of Oxford Reference.
Almost everything you wanted to know about life in the South but were afraid to ask. Contents: v. 1. Religion -- v. 2. Geography -- v. 3. History -- v. 4. Myth, manners, and memory -- v. 5. Language -- v. 6. Ethnicity -- v. 7. Foodways -- v. 8. Environment -- v. 9. Literature -- v. 10. Law & Politics -- v. 11. Agriculture & Industry -- v. 12. Music -- v. 13. Gender -- v. 14. Folklife -- v. 15. Urbanization -- v. 16. Sports & Recreation -- v. 17. Education -- v. 18. Media -- v. 19. Violence -- v. 20. Social Class -- v. 21. Art & Architecture -- v. 22. Science and Medicine -- v. 23. Folk Art -- v. 24. Race
Learn about some of the world's most commonly spoken languages from this BBC site.
Maintained by the CIA, this website provides information on the history, people, and governments of countries around the world with facts, maps, and flags for each.
An encyclopedia of sex practices covering more than 60 countries.
An encyclopedia covering mythology, folklore, and religion.
Art, artifacts, books, video and sound collections from galleries, libraries, archives and museums all over Europe.
The Metropolitan Planning Commission's annually published brochure is a descriptive text and statistical summary of local physical, social, cultural, government, and economic conditions in the Knoxville area.
Provides maps, historical aerials, address searches and property owner reports, school zones, voting districts and elected officials, and more. Use the options under the Online Tools tab to access the desired search function. Ready-to-print maps show political districts, school zones, zip codes, watersheds. A Historic Districts and Pre-1865 Structures theme makes it easy to find old architecture. Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) has an application for viewing current and past cases such as zoning change requests.
A detailed portrait of Canada and its complex identity.
TNMap serves as the portal for accessing a wide variety of downloadable Geographic Information Systems datasets, web applications, and web services related to Tennessee. Applications include:
- General Map Viewer
- Property Map Viewer
- Civil War Battlefields
- Historical Commission
- Locate Childcare Services
- Tax Rate Lookup
- Locate Registered Sex Offenders
- Voter Registration Information
- Lookup TDEC Water & Lands
- Connected Tennessee’s Interactive Broadband Inventory Map
Internationally-comparable data on education, science, culture and communication.
Data about development in countries around the globe.