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.
Improve your English or learn another language. This is an effective, easy-to-use program of practice for thirty different languages, on mobile apps or computers equipped with a microphone. This resource is provided as a database trial. Please give your feedback.
This resource is temporarily available remotely. 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, Newsweek, The Week, The Economist, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, Utne Reader, Harper's. Use the Filter button to switch from the current affairs genre to one of the others.
Hundreds of volumes of encyclopedias and other ebooks covering all subject areas. Gale eBooks is included in Gale Power Search which searches the content of the ebooks along with magazines and other resources. If you want to browse the ebooks as books, this Gale eBooks interface 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.
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 covering mythology, folklore, and religion.
Art, artifacts, books, video and sound collections from galleries, libraries, archives and museums all over Europe.
The 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.