General Information About Countries

 There are many good resources that will give you an overview of the country.

Country Books

• Individual Books on the country J/900s
  On the library computer catalog, type in the country name and click Subject.

• World Book Encyclopedia J REF 031 WOR; older edition can be checked out.
• Culturegrams Youth Services Desk
• UXL Junior Worldmark CD-ROM on youth computers #16, 18, 19, 21
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations J REF 903 WOR
• Lands and Peoples J REF 910 LAN
• The World Book Encyclopedia of People and Places J REF 910 WOR
• Try these links: BBC Country Profiles,  Country Studies, CIA World Fact Book.

• For pictures of currency, use the search engine Google (http://www.google.com), choose Images, then type the country name and currency, e.g., (Brazil currency)
• Currency Converter (http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic)

• Atlases in J 912 or J REF 912
• Xpeditions Atlas: Maps for Printing and Copying (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.htm)l
• World Atlas: Maps and Geography of the World (http://geography.about.com/library/maps/blindex.htm)

• National Anthems of the World REF 782.421599 NAT
• National Anthem Midis, Lyrics and World Flags
  (http://www.laurasmidiheaven.com/International.shtml)

News Directory (http://www.ecola.com/) for international newspapers.

If you are still not finding what you need, please ask at the Reference Desk. Good Luck!