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A number of schools, public libraries and other organisations have excellent examples of their Pathfinders accessible to everyone from their websites.

St Josephs, Nudgee
Adelaide High School
Greenhill School, Texas

Internet Public Library
Lakewood Public Library
American Memory
Australian National Maritime Museum

St Josephs Nudgee College Library
Brisbane, QLD

www.nudgee.com/library/resource.htm

This impressive school library site contains a large number of Pathfinders for students in Years 8 to 12, across a wide range of subjects:

Youth Depression [Year 11]
Jobs/Resumes [Year 12]
Primary Industry [Year 9]
Torts [Year 11]

The St Josephs website won the IASL Concord School Library Web Page of the Month Award in September 2000:

www.iasl-slo.org/web_award.html

Adelaide High School

www.adelaidehs.sa.edu.au/ahsintranet/subjects/index.htm

This subject links page includes pathfinders, hotlists and online assignments for students in a wide range of learning areas and topics. Pathfinder examples include:

Animal Adaptation in Arid Areas[Science]
Fitness [Health Education]
IT in Tourism [Information Technology]
Lifestyle, Diet and Disease [Home Economics]
Surrealism [Art]

Greenhill School, Texas

www.greenhill.org/divisions/montgomery_library/library_projects.htm

An interesting collection of online pathfinders that go beyond traditional paper guides:

Egypt [5th Grade History]
Endangered Species [4th Grade Science]

Internet Public Library

www.ipl.org/div/pf/

The Internet Public Library Pathfinders written by IPL staff, are intended to help users get started doing research on a particular topic, both online and at a local library. At present there are more than eighty available for the general public to use.

Lakewood Public Library

www.lkwdpl.org/study

Lakewood Public Library offers to create a Pathfinder for any topic requested by a teacher in the Lakewood District. To see a list of Pathfinders already created for Elementary, Middle and High Schools, follow the links from the IPL homepage.

American Memory

memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/start/gs_src_path.html

The Learning Page on the American Memory Website is designed to assist educators as they use the American Memory Collections to teach about United States history and culture.

It includes five kinds of Pathfinders to identify some of the major subjects represented in the Collections. These are organised by:

Australian National Maritime Museum

www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=681

The Museum's Pathfinders, on commonly requested subjects help researchers get on the right track in the Library and also help others who can't come in person.
They include people as sources of information:

Shipwrecks