CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent US Government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers.
Food and Agribusiness in Illinois
Want to know if the food products you consume are from Illinois? Check out the Illinois Department of Agriculture’s Food and Business Guide. Companies listed in the guide produce, process, package or are headquartered in Illinois.
Government Information
USA.gov is your official source for federal, state, and local government information. You’ll find answers to questions on everything from Social Security and government auctions to product recalls and travel advisories.
Illinois History
Illinois Harvest is a unique service that provides access to publicly available online materials about or related to Illinois. The service is being developed by the University of Illinois with generous funding support from the State of Illinois. The portal will feature materials held by libraries across Illinois and beyond. These materials include among other things: research works by Illinois scholars, photos of and texts about Abraham Lincoln, copies of Illinois constitutions, World War I and II documents, historical Illinois maps and aerial photographs, documents about Illinois during the Civil War, the Bloomington-Normal Black History Project documents, and historic architectural drawings and renderings about the “built environment” of the University of Illinois.
Internet Public Library and Librarian’s Internet Index
In 2010, the Internet Public Library and Librarian’s Information Index merged to become ipl2: information you can trust. ipl2 is a public service organization and a teaching/learning environment, hosted by Drexel University’s College of Information Science & Technology. Thousands of volunteer library professionals and library and information science students have been involved in designing, building, creating, and maintaining the ipl2 collections.
Legal Assistance and Information
Pontiac Public Library is a partner with the Livingston County Legal Self-Help Center. Illinois Legal Aid Online offers easy to understand information about your legal rights and responsibilities and self-help resources, including forms. Please be aware that we provide these forms as a public service, and library staff cannot provide legal advice. Forms may be printed at the library and cost 15 cents per sheet.
You can read selected Nolo books online—in their entirety, for free. Current editions include renter’s rights, foreclosure, saving your small business, and a guide to small claims court. Respected law books publisher Nolo is making these books available online for free because they want to make the valuable information they contain as widely available as possible. Look for more books to be added in the future.
Medical Information
More than 3,300 physicians, scientists and researchers from Mayo Clinic share their expertise to empower you to manage your health.
University of Illinois Extension Office
University of Illinois eXtension is an interactive learning environment delivering the best, most researched knowledge from the smartest land-grant university minds across America. eXtension connects knowledge consumers with knowledge providers – experts who know their subject matter inside out. eXtension offers objective, research-based and credible information on a wide variety of topics, such as agriculture, leadership development, and consumer services.