MSOLAR says: "What kind of numerical or statistical information is likely to help you?"

Choose from the following list:

• Compilations of statistics
• Rankings
• Measures
• Calendars
• Census information
• Sports scores and records

Some other relevant number-based materials are found elsewhere in MSOLAR:

• Election data
• Telephone directories
• Economic statistics

Compilations of statistics

• The Statistical Abstract of the United States provides a vast amount of statistical data for the U. S. each year. Available with call number HA 202 at IRC, and with SuDocs call number C3.134/ behind the Desk at SSHR. Use the index to find the table you need. The Census Bureau is posting selected tables on the Web .
• United Nations Statistical Yearbook is shelved behind the Desk at SSHR with call number ST/ESA/STAT/Ser.S). It provides world statistical data on topics like population, education, health, and economic activity.
• United Nations Demographic Yearbook is shelved behind the Desk at SSHR with call number ST/ESA/STAT/Ser.R.  It emphasizes population and demography. Each annual also has data on a special topic: marriage, aging, fertility, natality and so on: earlier volumes are shelved in the Stacks.
• Europa World Year Book is shelved behind the Desk at SSHR with call number JN1.E85.  It  provides fundamental statistics for all the countries of the world (not just Europe).

Rankings

• State Rankings: A Statistical View of the 50 United States is shelved in the GD/SSHR Statistics Alcove at call number  HA203.U17; it lists the fifty states and the District of Columbia in order for hundreds of categories, using sources like the 1990 Census.
• County and City Databook (Top 77 City Rankings) from the Census Bureau shows tables for eighteen demographic and economic categories.

Measures

• The CIA World Factbook, Appendix F has a table showing metric equivalents for U. S. "English" weights and measures.
• The CIA World Factbook annual also appears in paper  and is available behind the GD/SSHR Desk with call number PrEx3.15: check Appendix F for this table of US and metric measures.
• Interactive Metric Conversion Page (for Netscape 2.0 or higher) allows online conversion between the English/Imperial system and the International/metric system, for length, area, volume, weight or temperature. Courtesy of U-Freight Group.
• How far is it? calculates distances between cities in miles and kilometers. Be specific: enter "Paris, France" and "Chicago, IL" for example. Courtesy of indo.com and the University of Michigan Geographic Names Server.

Calendars

• Information Please Almanac, available behind the Desk at SSHR and in Science Reference (call number AY64.I55) prints a "perpetual calendar" chart each year: to find it, look in the Index at the front of the book. The change from the Julian system to the modern Gregorian system took place in 1752 in England, so this chart is good back that far for Anglo-American dates; in Catholic Europe the change took place earlier, so the chart should be good for Continental dates back to October 1582.
• Monthly calendars from any year can be generated on the Web courtesy of earth.com in Austin TX. Their system takes into account the British calendar reform of 1752, so it is good for English dates back into the Middle Ages, but only good for the Continent back to October 1582.
• Middle East Studies Handbook is shelved in SSHR at  call number DS61.B3 and has a table for converting between the Islamic and Christian calendars (see pp. 10-15), back to the former's beginnings in 622 A.D.
• The Book of Calendars (shelved  in SSHR at call number CE11.B66) discusses two dozen calendar systems, including some very obscure ones.

Census information

• The Bureau of the Census, part of the United States Department of Commerce, maintains a major Web page.
• 1990 Census Lookup provides access to the 1990 census data through the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. LOOKUP is "a Web-based interactive retrieval system..., part of ICSD's Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) and Populations at Risk to Environmental Pollution (PAREP) projects."
• The Census Bureau Gopher at the University of Michigan provides online access to some data in tabular form.
• The Census of Population and other U. S. census reports in paper since 1790 are shelved in Government Documents on the "Reference" shelves labelled as Range s R3-R8. The early reports are quite brief.  Data beginning with 1990 are loaded on CD-ROMs available at the GD/SSHR desk.
• The Statistical Abstract of the United States prints a good deal of U. S. census information each year. Shelved behind the GD/SSHR desk at call number C3.134. Older volumes are shelved in Government Documents on Reference Range R3.The Census Bureau is posting selected tables on the Web.
• Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970 is a two-volume summary of historic census data: it is shelved behind the GD/SSHR Desk at SuDocs call number C3.134/2:H62/789-970.
• County and City Data Book is a useful distillation of census material. Shelved in paper behind the GD/SSHR Desk with SuDocs call number C3.134/2:C83/2/, with selected tables on the Web.

Sports scores and records

• ESPN's Sportszone is one of the Web's most successful (and useful) sites. If your browser slows down when it encounters too many graphics and images, you can select a text version here.
• Sports Plus Net is another WWW-based sports site, with links to a wide range of other sports pages worldwide.
• Information Please Sports Almanac is a comprehensive print source for a wide range of sports records, shelved in SSHR at call number GV741.I58.
• The Baseball Encyclopedia is "the complete and definitive record of major league baseball" statistics: a respected print tool for the most statistics-laden American sport. Shelved in SSHR at call number GV877.B27.

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