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  • University of Louisville home page
  • University utilities
  • Web services
  • University offices
  • Student Success
  • Mentored Scholarship Programs
  • General reference sites
  • Literary reference sites

Utilities

Academic calendars For current academic year (summer-fall-spring). For undergraduate and graduate students, fall and spring dates are uniform across units, but summer terms may vary. Professional schools of dentistry, law and medicine set their own calendars.

Advocacy and difficulties with university policy Confidential assistance with bureaucratic procedures,

Blackboard The university's online course management system.

CardBox Web-based file storage system (User ID and password required).

Cardinal Athletics

Classroom policies University-wide policies concerning class attendance, disabilities, excused absences for university-sanctioned events, grades posting, participation in Commencement, withdrawal grades for Audit registration and severe weather

Course Catalog Now available for printing to hard copy (800+ pages) as a single PDF file.

Course Schedule Term-by-term listing of courses offered with locations, times of meeting and class size. Click on the link for the section you want for additional links to the course catalog description and the books ordered for that section

Email (Outlook) server University e-mail for faculty and staff (password required)

General education program and state-wide block transfer policy Detailed information about the university's programs and transfer of gen ed work from other Kentucky public colleges and universities

Institutional data Key data on student profiles, revenue, academic standing and accreditation from the Office of Academic Planning and Accountability

Libraries home page Libraries' catalog service, databases, libraries information and other useful research and service functions, including remote log-in to library services.

Louisville Cardinal The independent student newspaper of the University of Louisville

PeopleSoft data systems

REDBOOK The university's constitutional document under KRS 164.

Registration Schedule for current term Registration for courses is generally in student seniority order by number of credit-hours completed not counting hours currently in progress

Search Services Online directory of students, faculty and staff; most functions are open only to users@louisville.edu

Style guide University editorial and usage policy

ULink Sign In The university's portal for students, staff and faculty requires a UofL userID and password.

UofL Today Official online news outlet of the university

Virtual Private Network Login page for university VPN.


Web services

Dropbox

Facebook

Google accounts

Google search engine

Google web sites

iCloud

LinkedIn

Louisville Free Public Library

New York Times

Wikipedia

YouTube


University offices

Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost

Academic units: Colleges, schools and departments

Student Success

Mentored scholarship programs


General reference sites

Academic Exchange Online journal of issues in higher education

Alphadictionary Enter the word to search, results from as many as 1065 dictionaries (sorted by common themes or emphases in the definitions) will be returned.

Amazon.com Books! Earth's Biggest Bookstore.

Bible Gateway - KJV Chapter-by-chapter access to the text of the Authorized Version (1611); searchable by word and by passage to other translations

Britannica.com

Calendar Provided by the Diocese of Ely, England, and primarily for calculating the date of Easter and other majors feasts of the Christian year, this resource will give you a calendar for any year after 100 C.E. (and it will also indicate whether the dates given are Julian or Gregorian, where that difference applies).

Columbia University: Bartleby Library

Common Errors in English

Courier-Journal Government Salary Database

Etymology Dictionary Online Ready reference for etymology and derivation of English words. The basic sources of this work are Weekley's Etymological Dictionary of Modern English, Klein's Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Oxford English Dictionary (second edition), Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, Holthausen's Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache, and Kipfer and Chapman's Dictionary of American Slang"

Internet Public Library

Greek primer Koine overview with helps and tutorials, including a useful guide to the alphabet, with pronunciation and orthography tips.

Library Research Guide and Tutorial From Cornell University's Olin & Uris Library. A very useful guide to general practice even if some instructions are relevant only to the O&U environment. This site includes a well-informed, economical overview of how to build an annotated bibliography.

Loeb Library online From the headnote: "Loebolus is based on Edwin Donnelly's “Downloebables”, aiming to make all the public domain Loebs more easily downloadable by re-hosting the PDF's directly, without the need to enter CAPTCHA's."

Luminarium Rich site for works from the English medieval period through the seventeenth century, including audio recordings of expert readings and music from the period.

MapQuest! Travel route and weather information. Almost comprehensible written instructions for getting from one place to another, sometimes event the place you intend.

Parliamentary Procedure. For details, consult Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised.

Quotation Investigator. "This blog records the investigatory work of Garson O’Toole, who diligently seeks the truth about quotations. Who really said what? This question often cannot be answered with complete finality, but approximate solutions can be iteratively improved over time." Many quotations from many voices, elaborately researched, with documentation and bibliographies of written sources..

Reference - Refdesk.com A wide range of online reference resources (almanacs, calendars, dictionaries, quotations).

Saints A listing of saints by name, office, patronage and other more exotic categories, with references and citations.

Shakespeare's Sonnets A handy online source with commentary notes.

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric A handy guide to classical rhetoric with an extensive reference list of schemes and tropes

Surname census From the New York Times, the 5000 most common US surnames in frequency order

TARC:The Public Transportation Site for Greater Louisville Bus schedules by route number and other information concerning public transportation in Louisville. The main routes serving Belknap Campus are 2 (Second Street), 4 (Fourth Street) and 29 (Eastern Parkway). Route maps and timetables are available for download in PDF files.

United States Postal Service Address completion and zip codes

U. S. Universities by State Listed with links to home pages.

Yahoo Maps and Driving Directions

Whatis.com Online encyclopedia of information technology


Literary Web sites

Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts (text and painting)

Burckhardt, Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

The WWW Bible Gateway

Perseus Project Home Page Classical world resources, especially in Greek language, literature and arts

Shakespeare's Sonnets A handy online source with commentary notes.

Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric A handy guide to classical rhetoric with an extensive reference list of schemes and tropes

Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender (Renaissance Editions)

Entrance to the Shakespeare Web Now under revision but still clearly directed to a high school audience, whether student or teacher.

Renaissance Editions Compiled and edited by Richard Bear, et al. Advertised as "An Online Repository of Works Printed in English Between the Years 1477 and 1799," the site provides online, downloadable texts of many works, many in old spelling or from the first printed English version. Enormously useful, but check the headnote carefully for information about the source and status of the text.