Portals to the World Available to Purchase

As its name suggests, Portals to the World serves as a portal to Web sites about world nations. The available topics vary slightly from country to country but include areas such as:

Each topic provides links to external Web sites about the subject and country. In addition, links directing users to other appropriate Library of Congress Web sites or personnel are frequently provided.

The site’s straightforward design makes help files and patron training unnecessary. The opening page presents an alphabetical list of the 55 nations currently included. Users select a nation to view the list of available topics, and each...