Tuesday's Tool: Portals to the World

If you or your patrons need reliable, categorized information about or from a country, Portals to the World from the Library of Congress may well be your answer.

Portals to the World contains selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world. They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria.

Links lead to Web sites (many of which are bilingual) both from and about the selected nation. While the structure of the entries varies, the entries themselves typically begin with general information and proceed to business, culture, education, geography, government, search engines, society, and much, much more.

The more detailed profiles from the Library of Congress Country Studies series (intended to "focus primarily on lesser-known areas of the world or regions in which U.S. forces might be deployed") are also referenced within each entry whenever one exists.

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