Organizations

ANSI--American National Standards Institute [http://www.ansi.org/]
ASTM--American Society for Testing and Materials [http://www.astm.org/]
DOT--Department of Transportation [http://www.dot.gov/]
EPA--Environmental Protection Agency [http://www.epa.gov/]
ISO--International Organization for Standardization [http://www.iso.org/]
NFPA--National Fire Protection Agency [http://www.nfpa.org/]
NRC--Nuclear Regulatory Commission [http://www.nrc.gov/]
NSC--National Safety Council [http://www.nsc.org/]
OSHA--Occupational Safety & Health Administration [http://www.osha.gov/]

Biotechnology

National Centre for Biotechnology Education (United Kingdom) Readings on genetically modified foods and related issues [http://www.ncbe.reading.ac.uk/NCBE/GMFOOD/technology.html]
Bio: Biotechnology Industry Organization Gives an industry perspective on biotechnology and biotech applications [http://bio.org/index.asp?stay=yes]
US Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library Provides links to a number of articles related to agricultural biotechnology applications [http://riley.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=8&tax_level=2&tax_subject=8&topic_id=1067&&placement_default=0]]

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology 101 Lecture Series A collection of basic lectures on various topics related to nanotechnology [http://nanohub.org/education/nanotechnology101]
Power of Small Nanotechnology Panel discussions about societal implications of various nanotechnology applications [http://powerofsmall.org/]
Powers of Ten A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY]

Process Technology

History of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology A good overview of the oil refining process [http://www.pafko.com/history/h_refine.html]
Petroleum History An index to early petroleum history sites [http://www.little-mountain.com/oilwell/]
How Stuff Works An article on how the oil refining process works [http://www.howstuffworks.com/oil-refining.htm]

Web Site Useful for a Number of Topics

Science Daily Summarizes current articles from a wide range of sources on a wide range of topics. [http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/]

American Institute of Architecture Students Based in Washington DC, this is the official organization for architecture students. [http://www.aiasnatl.org/]
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser From the J. Paul Getty Museum [http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/aat/index.html]
The Blue Book of Building and Construction Companion site to the reference book 624.029 B658 [http://www.thebluebook.com]
CAD Digest is the reading room for computer aided design. The best in CAD-related articles are gathered here. [http://www.caddigest.com/]
Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world. [http://content.lib.washington.edu/cities]
Digital Bridges is a collection of 30 representative 19th Century American bridge engineering monographs, manuals and documents from Lehigh Universities’ Special Collections. [http://bridges.lib.lehigh.edu/]
T H E G R E A T B U I L D I N G S C O L L E C T I O N Great Buildings Online provides a wealth of information on many of the most famous buildings in the world.It includes photographs and architectural details for each building as well as links to information on the architects and a bibliography. The site enables users to view three-dimensional models of many of the buildings after downloading free viewing software. [http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings.html]
National Association of Women in Construction The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) was founded in Ft. Worth, Texas, in 1955. Since its founding, NAWIC has grown to a membership of 6,500 with more than 200 chapters in 47 U.S. States and in three Canadian provinces. [http://www.nawic.org/]
National Organization of Minority Architects Includes information on student chapters and employment. [http://www.noma.net/]
Pennsylvania Builders Association includes the Labor & Industry building code website. [http://www.pahomes.org/]
Pennsylvania Heavy Construction Costs Estimator Covers manhours, labor and materials cost for heavy construction. Search by material. Other states are also available. [http://www.get-a-quote.net/QuoteEngine/costbook.asp?WCI=CostIntroFrameSet&BookId=55]
Pennsylvania Building Codes and Universal Construction Code (UCC) information The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry's Building Codes website links to the Pennsylvania's state-wide building codes/standards and has information about enforcement of the code. [http://www.dli.state.pa.us/landi/cwp/view.asp?a=310&q=210892]
Philadelphia Architects and Building Database provides authoritative information on three centuries of Philadelphia buildings and designers. [http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab]
Philadelphia Building Permits and Code The Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections website contains information on building permits Philadelphia and links to the Philadelphia Building Construction and Occupancy Code. [http://webapps.phila.gov/li/ContentPage.asp?TopNode=resources&level1=78&level2=221&level3=]

Computer Forensics Web magazine understandable to lay people as well as attorneys and computer professionals. [http://www.shk-dplc.com/cfo/]
Defense Cyber Crime Center (DC3) Includes the DoD Computer Forensics Laboratory (DCFL), DoD Computer Investigations Training Program (DCITP) and DoD Cyber Crime Institute (DCCI) which each provide critical training and forensic support to DoD personnel who must face computer crime and electronic evidence analysis. [http://www.dcfl.gov/]
Digital Library Zone Full text of “Law on the Electronic Frontier,” a book dealing with issues including hacking, data protection, intellectual property rights and liability. [http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/Law/dept/diglib/book/front.html]
Internet Resources for Computer Forensics Resources from a Computer Forensics course being taught at NC Wesleyan College. [http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/426/426links.htm]

AI Topics Site developed by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for people to explore what artificial intelligence is, and what AI scientists do. [http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/aitopics.html]
BoogieJack Basic introduction on HTML, CSS, Javascript, and more. [http://www.boogiejack.com/]
COBOL Notes COmmon Business Oriented Language. Publisher's site (Stern & Stern), which corresponds to eighth edition of the textbook, Structured COBOL Programming. [http://www.wiley.com/college/busin/icmis/cobol/downloads.html]
CERT Coordination Center is a center of Internet security expertise. Information on current viruses is also included. From Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute. [http://www.cert.org/]
Living Internet covers the Internet, the World Wide Web, Usenet, email and other topics pertinent to the Internet. The site is the first reference length work that is fully integrated with the web, with more than 500 pages, and 2,000 intra-site links and 2,000 external links woven into the text. [http://livinginternet.com/]
Microsoft Visual Basic Development Center Recommended for CIS 216 (Visual Basic Programming II). [http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/]
New Perspectives on E-Commerce Student download site for CIS 272 (E-Commerce Technology). [http://www.course.com/catalog/downloads.cfm?isbn=0-619-04416-0]
Planet Source Code is a large public programmer database on the Internet with millions of lines of code, articles and tutorials in 9 languages, as well as thousands of job postings. [http://www.planetsourcecode.com/]
WebMonkey: Web developer’s resource Find source code and other helpful information for creating web pages. [http://www.webmonkey.com]
World Wide Web Consortium was created in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. [http://www.w3.org/]

ADA: American Dental Association Home page of the American Dental Association. [http://www.ada.org/]
American Dental Hygienists Association ADHA is the largest professional organization representing the interests of dental hygienists. [http://www.adha.org/]
Animated Teeth offers descriptions of selected oral conditions with animated illustrations. It also offers (fee-based) animated illustrations for dental presentations and cosmetic dental imaging services for dentists. Links to related web sites also are included. [http://www.animated-teeth.com]
Careers in Dentistry will enable students and prospective students to learn about and connect with a host of dental career resources around the world. [http://www.dent.unc.edu/careers/]
Dentalcare.com Procter & Gamble's Premier Portal for Dental Professionals includes a free peer-reviewed journal - highly recommended by Dental faculty [http://www.dentalcare.com]
Dental Hygiene Education Overview of the profession of dental hygiene for peer professionals and patients. [http://www.dhed.net/main.htm]
Dental Hygienists From the Occupational Outlook Handbook. [http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos097.htm]
Oral Histology Images There are 429 photomicrographs of histologic sections in this site. Source of Images - In the 1970's, Dr. Arnold Tiber photographed histologic sections from USC files. He arranged for the photographs to be copied as filmstrips. Tiber also wrote descriptions for each photograph; he created a printed syllabus to accompany the filmstrips. Over the years, the syllabi and filmstrips deteriorated; Dr. William Crawford, a colleague of Tiber, digitized Dr. Tiber's original photomicrographs and descriptions and arranged these materials into this site. The site consists of over 1,200 image files and more than 800 text files. These files are located on the USC web server. [http://www.usc.edu/hsc/dental/ohisto/index.html]
Infection Control in Dental Settings From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [http://www.cdc.gov/OralHealth/infectioncontrol]
Pennsylvania Dental Hygienists Association Official site [http://www.pdhaonline.org]
Skull Module The Skull Module was designed to demonstrate how World Wide Web technology and a graphical user interface could be used to assist in the development of classroom curriculum. From California State University-Chico’s Department of Anthropology. [http://www.csuchico.edu/anth/Module/skull.html]

American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) The American Society of Radiologic Technologists is the oldest and largest national professional association for technologists in the radiologic sciences. [http://www.asrt.org/home.htm]
Basics of MRI is an online book outlining all of the physics and technology involved in magnetic resonance imaging. [http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/mri/inside.htm]
RadCenter.com News and resources for Medical Imaging Technogists. [http://www.radcenter.com]
Whole Brain Atlas MRI views of the normal and diseased human brain. Collaboration of MIT and Harvard Univ. [http://www.med.harvard.edu/AANLIB/home.html]

American Dietetic Association Provides links to sites related to food, nutrition and health. Including links to affiliate dietetic associations and dietetic practice groups. Offers highlights from issues of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. [http://www.eatright.org/]
Dietetics Home page for the Dietetics Department. [http://faculty.ccp.cc.pa.us/dept/diet]
Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) A collection of links about eating disorders, dietary guidelines around the world, the cultural diversity of food in the U.S., newsletters and discussion groups, dietary supplements (including herbs, vitamins, and minerals), food composition, and various food pyramids. Additionally, there are databases of training and educational materials. The Consumer Corner contains materials most often asked for by the public. From the National Agricultural Library and the University of Maryland. [http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/]
International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation The mission of IFIC is to communicate science-based information on food safety, nutrition and health. [http://www.ific.org/]
Nutrition Source “ . . . Provide[s] timely information on diet and nutrition for clinicians, allied health professionals, and the public.” From the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. [http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/]

NFPA The official site of the National Fire Protection Association. [http://www.nfpa.org]
Pennsylvania Professional Fire Fighters Association, IAFF [http://www.ppffa.org]
Philadelphia Fire Department [http://www.mfrconsultants.com/pfd/]

Advocacy Institute The Advocacy Institute works to make social justice leadership strategic, effective, and sustainable in pursuit of a just world. The Advocacy Institute works to make social justice leadership strategic, effective, and sustainable in pursuit of a just world. The Advocacy Institute works to make social justice leadership strategic, effective, and sustainable in pursuit of a just world. [http://www.advocacy.org]
Campus Compact--Annual Service Statistics: Highlights and Trends in Service, Service Learning, and Civic Engagement The site provides statistics on several years of data from Campus Compact's membership, detailing growth in community service, service learning and civic participation. [http://www.compact.org/newscc/highlights.html]
Center for Future Civic Media This site offers information and links to new web sites on the topic of the use of new technologies which foster and promote civic engagement within local communities. Sponsored by the Center for Future Civic Media at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [http://civic.mit.edu/]
Journal for Civic Commitment Twice yearly online journal dedicated to service learning and civic engagement. [http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/other/engagement/Journal/]
University of Southern Maine: Web Based Resources for Civic Engagement From the University of Southern Maine. [http://usm.maine.edu/studentlife/community/]

The American Association of Medical Assistants This site provides information about the profession. A title/author index to There is a link to PMA (Practical Medical Assistant), which is the official AAMA Journal. [http://www.aama-ntl.org]

American Alliance of Paralegals, Inc. Official site. [http://www.aapipara.org]
BlueBook Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (2006 ed.) by Peter W. Martin of Cornell Law School. [http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/]
Community Legal Services is the website for the Philadelphia Chapter, which provides legal assistance to the needy with the ongoing support of the Philadelphia Bar Association and the legal community. [http://www.clsphila.org/]
Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association Official site which includes job postings. [http://www.gplla.org]
Jenkins Law Library Pennsylvania research specialists. [http://www.jenkinslaw.org/]
LII: State Legal Materials - Pennsylvania From Cornell Law School. Listing of Pennsylvania legal materials available online for free. [http://www.law.cornell.edu/states/pennsylvania.html]
National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA) is the leading professional national association for legal assistants and paralegals. [http://www.nala.org/]
National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA) [http://www.paralegals.org]
Paralegal Studies Home page of the Paralegal Studies program of the College. [ABA approved] [http://faculty.ccp.cc.pa.us/dept/pls]
The Pennsylvania Code Online From the Commonwealth of Pennslvania, this site includes the Commonwealth’s official publication of rules and regulations but does NOT include statutes or acts. [http://www.pacode.com]

American Museum of Photography Research Center contains information on early photographic processes and preserving & protecting photographs. [http://www.photographymuseum.com/research.html]
Edwin Curtis' North American Indian A part of the Library of Congress' Digital Collection, these plates illustrate Native American of the American West, Canada and Alaska. It contains all facets of tribal life from artifacts to inhabitants. [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html]
New York Public Library Digital Gallery: Photography Collection Collection of many early photographs from around the world and includes a number of gallery guides that focus on particular topics. [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdivisionbrowseresult.cfm?trg=1&div_id=hsh}
Photographic Processes A site from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, which explains and gives examples of many types of photographic processes. [http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/processes.php]
UCR California Museum of Photography UCR / California Museum of Photography is an off-campus department of the University of California, Riverside, located in Downtown Riverside. The museum promotes understanding of photography and related media through collection, research, exhibition, and instruction. [http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/]
New York Institute of Photography Founded in 1910, with a current home-study enrollment of over 20,000 in 128 countries, NYI is the world's oldest and largest photography school. This site has one major objective - to help you take better pictures. Every month, dozens of new tips, topics and contests are added. [http://www.nyip.com/]

State Real Estate Commission (Pennsylvania) Official site of the PA Real Estate Commission. Provides links to consumer information; licensure information; law; rules and regulations; special notices; newsletter; and, license verification. [http://www.dos.state.pa.us/bpoa/cwp/view.asp?a=1104&q=433107]

American Association for Respiratory Care The official organization for Respiratory Care. [http://www.aarc.org/]
Respiratory Technical Occupational Bulletin From the Center for Health Careers. [http://chc.hcwp.org/rtt.htm]
Respiratory Therapists Description from the Occupational Outlook Handbook. [http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos084.htm]
Respiratory Care Technology Home page of the Respiratory Care Technology Department of the College. [http://faculty.ccp.cc.pa.us/dept/resp]
Virtual Autopsy's Anatomy & Physiology of the Respiratory System Tutorial created by the makers of Virtual Autopsy about the Respiratory System. [http://www.le.ac.uk/pathology/teach/va/anatomy/case2/frmst2.html]

Automotive Technology Home page for the Automotive Technology Department at the College. [http://www.ccp.cc.pa.us/vpacaff/prog&crs/credit/divbs&t/autotech/at-home.htm]

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Since 1904, Big Brothers and Big Sisters have provided mentoring experiences between adult volunteers and children who are primarily from single parent families. [http://www.bbbsa.org]
Child Welfare League of America is the oldest and largest non-profit organization that develops and promotes policies and programs to protect American's children and families. [http://www.cwla.org/]
National Clearinghouse on Family & Youth is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. This site advocates Youth Development as a way to give youth the opportunity to exercise leadership, build skills, form relationships with caring adults and help their communities. [http://www.ncfy.com/]
Pennsylvania Child Welfare Services Pennsylvania Child Welfare Services is part of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. Their website links to information on Pennsylvania adoption, foster care, child abuse, child abuse preventive services, and related organizations. [http://www.dpw.state.pa.us/ServicesPrograms/ChildWelfare/]

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