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Delaware Facts & Basic Information

• Tourism slogan: It's good being first. (Adopted October 2001)
  
• Blue Hen
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• Blue Rock
  Brandywine Blue Gneiss (granite), popularly known as Blue Rock or Wilmington Blue Rock.
  1. A bright blue to blue-gray gneiss underlying Wilmington and the surrounding areas; quarried commercially in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
  2. Name of professional baseball team: Blue Rocks of the old Interstate League, 1940-1952
  3. Name of current professional baseball team: The Blue Rocks, 1993-
• Bedrock Geology of the Piedmont of Delaware and Adjacent Pennsylvania. Delaware Geological Survey Reports of Investigations, 59, pp. 17-18, 46.
• Wilmington Blue Rocks -- Official Web Site
• A Professional Baseball History By John H. Duffy.

• Boundary Agreements
• DelaFAQs (Historical Society of Delaware)
• Facts & Symbols
• Highest Point
• History
• State Fossil, Belemnite
• State Mineral, Sillimanite
• State Quarter
• State Soil: Greenwich loam
  • More information: Greenwich -- Delaware State Soil

Arts

• DelawareScene.com (Calendar; coming soon)
• Delaware Division of the Arts
• Concerts in Delaware
• Delaware Art Museum
• Delaware Heritage Commission
• Winterthur
  Includes links to the library and the catalog, WinterCat.

Business and Commerce

• Delaware Division of Corporations
  • To search for companies incorporated in Delaware, go to: General Information Name Search
• Delaware State Chamber of Commerce
• New Castle Business Ledger
• New Castle County Chamber of Commerce
• Office of Occupational and Labor Market Information (OOLMI) (Delaware Department of Labor)
• QuickFacts: Delaware
  Offers state and county profiles from several sources. Compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau.
• Small Business State Profiles

• See also Statistics and Data

Digital Delaware

• Picturing Delaware: Maps and Illustrations of the First State
• Post Card Collection (UD Library Digital Collections)
  Digital collection of more than 2,000 postcards showing well-known Delaware buildings, monuments, and views.
• Delaware Public Archives
  Delaware Public Archives collections of Delaware photographs and documents. See the “Digital Archives” section.
• Exhibit Archive
  Listing, with some pictures, of exhibits held at the Historical Society of Delaware.

Education

• Delaware Department of Education (DOE)
  Includes School Profiles, District information, Special reports, and statistics.
• Higher Education
• New Castle County Cooperative Extension
• NAEP State Profiles
• School District Demographics
  Provides access to demographic data for all U.S. school districts; derived from the Census 2000 P.L. 94-171 (Redistricting) File. Part of the Special Tabulation Program, School District Tabulation (STP2). “This extended set of tabulations provides one of the largest, most detailed sources of children's demographics ever developed by the U.S. Census Bureau and the largest source of children's characteristics available from Census 2000.” Provided through National Center for Education Statistics.
• Delaware Featured Facts
  From the SREB Fact Book on Higher Education. (Southern Regional Education Board)

• Education: A Guide to Internet Resources
• Search for Public Schools

Environment & Energy

• Climate Change: Delaware
• Delaware Department of Natural Resources (DNREC)
  Useful sites include:
  • Delaware Natural Heritage Program
  • Whole Basin Management
• Delaware Energy Office
• Delaware Geological Survey
  Includes information on geology, paleontology, minerals, water, streamflow, precipitation, erosion, and other topics.
• Delaware Nature Society
• Delaware River Basin Commission
  An Interstate compact addressing environmenatal management and conservation issues. The Commission consists of Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and a federal government appointee.
• Delaware Solid Waste Authority
• Delaware Water Resources Center
• National Environmental Scorecards
  Provided by the League of Conservation Voters. Provides information about the environmental voting records of U.S. Representatives and Senators.
• Nature Conservancy: Delaware
• Science In Your State (USGS)
• Superfund — National Priority List Sites in Delaware
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  EPA has a lot of information about local areas. Window to My Environment offers a combination of mapping and data from a variety of sources. Other useful sites include:
  • Delaware Drinking Water
  • EPA Region 3
  • Hazardous Site Cleanup Division
  • Where you live

• The Environment: A Guide to Internet Resources

Genealogical and Historical Resources

Information on resources for Delaware and local history and genealogy.

Government

Information on state, county, and city governments, courts, laws, and government officials.

Health

• Delaware Division of Public Health
  • Behavioral Risk Data
  • Delaware Annual Vital Statistics Report
• Department of Safety and Homeland Security
• Delaware Health Facts (FASTATS) from CDC
• Be Healthy Delaware
• Healthy People 2010 (United States)

History

Information on resources for Delaware and local history and genealogy.

Jobs in Delaware

• careerbuilder
  From the Wilmington News Journal.
• Delaware Joblink

Law

Information on Delaware law and government

Libraries

• Del-AWARE: The Digital Library of the First State
  Del-AWARE provides online information and services to Delaware libraries and public library users.
  • New Castle County Library Databases
  • Wilmington Library Databases
  • Kent and Sussex County Library Databases
• Delaware Public Library catalogs:
  • TipCat, New Castle County public libraries (except Wilmington Library)
  • Wilmington Public Library
    Catalog includes book holdings of the Christiana Care Libraries and the Delaware Academy of Medicine.
  • Delaware Library Catalog
    Kent and Sussex Counties public libraries and Delaware Technical & Community College (DTCC), Wesley College, and Delaware Public Archives.
• College and Research Libraries in Delaware (CRLD Directory)
• Delaware Division of Libraries (DDL)
  The State Library
• Federal Depository Libraries in Delaware
• Hagley Museum and Library
• Winterthur

• Delaware Library Association
  DLA Bulletin
• College and Research Libraries Division (CRLD) of DLA
• Delaware Valley Chapter / ACRL
• Delaware Valley Documents Group

Maps and Geographic Resources

• Blank Outline State Maps
• DataMIL
  The Internet Mapping Server (IMS) providing the most current base map of Delaware
• Delaware Geological Survey
• Delaware Maps in the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
• Generalized Geologic Map of Delaware and more
• 1990 Delaware Census Maps (UD Library)
  Maps showing the 1990 census tract boundaries for New Castle County and selected thematic maps by census block groups for the state and each county.

• Delaware Cartographic Information, Maps, and Spatial Data (UD Library)
  A guide to Internet resources.
• Delaware Maps, Atlases, and Gazetteers: A Research Guide (UD Library)
• Digital Mapping Station (GIS) (UD Library)

Media

• delmarvanow.com
• Delaware News from USA Today
• delawareonline (Wilmington News Journal)
• Delaware Today
• Dover Post
• Newark Post
  Full articles are only available for 30 days and only if you register.
• New Castle Business Ledger
• WDEL
• WILM Newsradio (1450 WILM)
• WJBR
• WSTW
• Delaware Resources (Widener Law Library)
• Delaware Newspapers in the University of Delaware Library
  Listing of Delaware newspapers by title, by time period, and by place of publication.

Notable Delaware Web Sites

• Delaware.gov, the State of Delaware website
  The home page for the State of Delaware. Provides information about Delaware and many useful links to government and other Web sites. Especially useful are:
  • State Agencies (alphabetical list)
  • Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA)
  • Education
  • Sex Offender Registry
  • Delaware General Assembly
    Delaware bills and laws information

• Collecting Delaware Books
  Website discussing Delaware books and collectors. By John P. Reid of Bear, Delaware.
• Delaware Documentation
  Listing of State of Delaware publications distributed to libraries through the program called Delaware Documentation.

Resources for State & Local Information

• Open Directory Project: Delaware

• Council of State Governments (CSG)
  Features a state news section. Provides information about many of the CSG publications (such as the Book of the States) and activities. Some of the search services are available only to CSG members.
• National Conference of State Legislatures
  Highlights important issues at the state level.
• Stateline.org
  Great source for current news on states and state legislatures. Also has an “almanac” for each state.
• Yahoo: United States: States
  Yahoo: United States: States: Delaware

Statistics and Data

• Delaware: State and County QuickFacts
  Offers state and county profiles from several sources.
• Delaware QuickLinks
• Statistics (Delaware Economic Development Office)

• American FactFinder
  The primary distribution system for Census data. Use it to find statistics about population, housing, industry and business. Features include: Interactive mapping.
• Annual Population Projections (in PDF format) (Delaware Population Consortium)
  Provides thirty-year population and employment projections for the State, the counties, and for selected municipalities.
  • Delaware Population Consortium
  • Annual Population Projections
    2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
• Delaware Fact Sheet (USDA)
  Quick facts on population, per capita income, poverty status, and other factors and detailed information on farms and the state's farming economy.
• Economy at a Glance -- United States
  One of several “At a glance tables” from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Others include:
  • Delaware
  • Wilmington, DE
  • Dover, DE
• Regional Economic Accounts (BEA)
  Includes Gross State Product (GSP) and State Personal Income (SPI).
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
  Search for “state” in search box. Also see “State Rankings”
• USA Counties
  Demographic, economic, and governmental information spanning several years and sources. Provides data for national, state, and county levels.

For More Information

• Latest Census 2000 Data for the State of Delaware (provided by UD CADSR)
• Delaware Databases at CADSR
• Delaware Statistics: A Research Guide
• Delaware Census State Data Centers:
  • Research & Data Management Services (R&DMS)
  • Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research (CADSR)

Tax Forms

• Delaware Division of Revenue

• 1040.com
  Links to multiple years of forms for all states.
• State Tax Forms
  Lousiana State University Libraries links page to all of the state tax forms sites.
• State Tax Forms
  Links to state tax forms from Federation of Tax Administrators.
• Tax Forms and Guides: A Research Guide

Transportation

• DART First State
• Delaware River and Bay Authority
• DelDOT (Delaware Department of Transportation)
• Newark Trolley
• UNICITY Bus Service (City of Newark) or call 831-1187
• University of Delaware Shuttle Bus

University of Delaware

• The University of Delaware: A History
  Online version of the book by John A. Munroe, University of Delaware alumnus and H. Rodney Sharp Professor Emeritus of History, University of Delaware. Published: Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1986.
• University of Delaware Press
• Campus sculptures
  • Nubian goats: Lucinda and Chloe by André Harvey
    “Bronze Sculpture graces scenic campus spot” (Article from the UD UpDate, volume 21, no. 3, November 2001)
  • Boy and Girl by Nancy Reynolds
    "Artist and Her Sculpture" (Article from the UD UpDate, volume 21, no. 3, November 2001)
  • "Ode to Joy" by Charles Allmond
    "Allmond's Joy" (article from UD Messenger, vol. 4, no. 4, 1995)

Weather and Climate

• The Weather Underground: Wilmington, DE | Newark, DE
• The Weather Channel: Wilmington, DE | Newark, DE
• Yahoo forecast: Wilmington, DE | Newark, DE
• Delaware Information
  Forecasts and hourly data from the National Weather Service's weather.gov

• National Climatic Data Center publications
  • Climatological Data: Maryland & Delaware (full text issues available on Library website)
  • Local Climatological Data: Wilmington, Delaware (full text issues available on Library website)
• Delaware State Climatologist
• Delaware Geological Survey (DGS)
  Includes information on geology, paleontology, minerals, water, streamflow, precipitation, erosion, and other topics.
• Water Level Tidal Predictions
  An interactive system to calculate tidal predictions for more than 3000 tide stations. This system replaces the government printed Tide Tables. See also the commerical publication: Reed's Nautical Almanac.
• Tide Tables