Online newspapers. Want to branch out into the world of online newspapers. Have a look at these links. You can use the express terminals available in the International meeting place to view the online papers from around the world

• OnlineNewspapers Thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips.
• The paperboy World and local newspapers.
• Yahoo News Organized by region.
• Refdesk.com.World and local papers.
• IPL Newspapers. The Internet Public Library’s extremely extensive list of newspapers all over the world.
• PressDisplay.com: Real newspaper front page replicas from all around the world. OnlineNewspapers.com “Thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips.”
• Today’s Front Pages – Newseum: At the time of this writing, “528 front pages from 46 countries presented alphabetically.”
• NewspaperIndex: a listing of the best online newspapers sites from all over the world.
• Indekx.com: Very cool; this is an interactive world map that when clicked leads to that country’s online newspapers and magazines.
• World-Newspapers.com: A huge listing of online newspapers all over the world, from Africa to France to Greece.
• MIT Foreign Language News and Newspapers:a good list of online newspapers all over the world from MIT.
• World Newspapers Online: European newspapers: world newspapers are featured here.
• State Library of New South Wales – Australian Newspapers; International papers Note some databases require you to be a member of the State Library. You can join at the library or online

Search engines worldwide: Search all over the world through the eyes of international search engines. Here are just a few

• Search Engine Colossus: Over 327 countries and territories are represented here; also separated by category.
• Yahoo International: interactive map showing where Yahoo has a search engine presence in the world; just click on the country that you’re interested in.
• Bloglines International: Nope, not a search engine per se, but Bloglines does help you find blogs and feeds that you might be interested in. Available in nine different languages.
• Search Engines Worldwide: over 3000 different international search engines are listed here.
• Search Engines of the World: tons of international search engines here, all in alphabetical order.

• Recreational reading in community languages ( Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, Spanish, Vietnamese and a whole lot more)
• Chinese newspapers
• Selection of magazines
• Express Internet computers
• Lounge area with comfortable seating. (A good to place to read or have a nap as I have often observed)

Audio and Virtual  tours of the Library. If you are new to the library you can have a look at or listen to Audio and virtual tours of the library . They are available in

• Arabic
• Chinese (Mandarin)
• English for the hearing impaired (captioned)
• Korean
• Spanish
• Vietnamese

Part 2 of the Internstional meeting place promo will be released soon. Watch this space!!