Selected Websites
Arts and Humanities
Automobiles
VINCheck feature that allows shoppers to check the status of vehicles to see if they have been salvaged or stolen.
Boating
Business
Free, confidential counseling to small businesses in Rhode Island and nearby Connecticut and Massachusetts. This local SCORE chapter operates under the auspices of the SBA.
Consumer Information
Education
Provides free online courses covering a wide range of topics from universities around the world.
Provides annual "reports cards" from 1998 to 2009 for Rhode Island's public schools, with individual school, school district, and statewide profiles.
Provides information about Rhode Island's public schools: individual schools, school districts, or statewide, from 2009 to the present.
Free educational videos, each about 10 minutes. Subjects include math, science, computer science, finance and economics, and the humanities.
Educational workshops for adults, sponsored by the North Kingstown Foundation.
Employment
From from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab. Provides help with writing cover letters and other types of employment search letters.
Environment
Identification, images, & information for insects, spiders & their kin for the United States & Canada
NarrBay.org is the one stop portal for researchers interested in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. NarrBay is home to specialized coastal and marine datasets which can be downloaded in a variety of formats.
Includes the Narragansett Bay Tide Calendar. The Narragansett Bay Research Reserve is one of 27 Reserves in the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS). Currently, the NERRS protects over 1 million acres of estuarine waters and adjacent upland habitats. The Narragansett Bay Research Reserve is located in the heart of Narragansett Bay on four islands: Prudence, Patience, Hope and Dyer.
The Narragansett Bay Research Reserve protects approximately 4400 acres of land and water.
We are located in the Narragansett Bay Watershed which is comprised of 1,657 square miles. Sixty-one percent of the watershed is in Massachusetts and thirty-nine percent is in Rhode Island.
A pilot project with the Town of North Kingstown has compiled and studied a large amount of data important for understanding sea level rise at the local level. Out of this effort have come new planning tools for government, community, and the private sector to use as they collaboratively make decisions about how to protect people and property as the ocean rises.
Finance
Website of the Credit Union National Association.
Request a free credit report every 12 months from each of the 3 consumer credit reporting companies.
Compare rates for checking, savings, CDs, and mortgages. Also includes bank ratings and calculators to compare borrowing costs.
Business, financial and economic news
Guide from the Federal Reserve includes information about credit card rules, credit ratings and scores, and links to consumer help and bilingual resources.
National Credit Union Administration's website with consumer information about credit unions.
Genealogy
This free site offers access to an extraordinary database of information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened.
Geography
A free latitude and longitude finder to locate known coordinates or to find the coordinates of a specific location on a map.
Government
"In the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, legislative information from the Library of Congress."
Health
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services website.
Physician-reviewed articles and advice for children, teens and parents.
Links to articles and documents about Lyme Disease from Rhode Island state agencies such as the DEM and the R.I. Department of Health.
Find and compare quality of care information for over 4,000 Medicare-certified hospitals across the U.S.
Health information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 900 diseases and conditions.
Provides direct assistance to consumers who need help understanding and accessing their health coverage.
History
Includes POW-MIA Search Engine
An online educational resource on the Dorr Rebellion by Providence College.
A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use.
Hobbies
Home and Garden
Rhode Island Association of REALTORS' State-Wide Multiple Listing Service (MLS).
Law
Living wills & power of attorney information
Site operated by Rhode Island Legal Services provides information on legal topics and RI laws, RI courts, and providers of legal assistance.
Libraries
Providing access to approximately 6 million volumes, the InRhode Library Catalog combines the resources of the Brown University Library Catalog, JOSIAH, with those of the HELIN Library Catalog.
Magazine Articles
Maps
A free latitude and longitude finder to locate known coordinates or to find the coordinates of a specific location on a map.
Math and Science
Interactive lessons on many math subjects, from kindergarten through the eighth-grade level.
A free latitude and longitude finder to locate known coordinates or to find the coordinates of a specific location on a map.
Movies Theater Radio TV
Music
Download up to 3 songs per week with your library card from the North Kingstown Free Library.
Contains over 10,000 Christian hymns, Author Bios, Composer Biographies, Hymn Histories and Gospel songs from many denominations.
Find music published in Sheet Music Magazine via Santa Cruz Public Libraries' Sheet Music Catalog.
Newspapers
Includes articles and archives from the North East Independent and the South County Independent.
North Kingstown
A pilot project with the Town of North Kingstown has compiled and studied a large amount of data important for understanding sea level rise at the local level. Out of this effort have come new planning tools for government, community, and the private sector to use as they collaboratively make decisions about how to protect people and property as the ocean rises.
Phone Numbers
Reading and Literature
A non-profit collaborative of poets and writers in Rhode Island and Southeast Massachusetts.
Provides free eBooks to read online or download.
Reference
Rhode Island
At Roger Williams Park in Providence.
Social Services and Seniors
Connects volunteers with opportunities in Washington County as well as in Jamestown, East Greenwich and West Greenwich.
Sports
Talking Books
Tax
Information on state and federal tax policies.
Travel
Schedules, maps, etc.
Weather and Tides
Zip Codes
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