MSOLAR says: "What kind of services do you need information about?"

Choose from the following list:

• Health information
• Legal information
• Personal or family problems

Some other relevant lists are elsewhere in MSOLAR:

• Educational services
• Directories of businesses
• Directories of government offices
• Jobs and employment

Health information

REFERENCE TOOLS ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE.

• The American Medical Association Family Medical Guide is available in the Software library as a CD-ROM.  It is intended as a first reference for basic health problems. It includes self-diagnostic flowcharts, as well as illustrated discussions of health and illness for a lay audience.
• The University of Iowa Family Practice Handbook by Graber, Allen and Levy is an impressive Web-based clinical reference tool.
• Physicians' Desk Reference (shelved in Science Reference at call number RM671.A1P48) identifies thousands of drugs, their use, and possible side-effects. The "PDR" is the best known of several similar titles, all shelved in this same area.
• America's Best Hospitals from U.S News and World Report rates over 1,000 U.S. hospitals in sixteen specialties. Shelved in Science Reference at call number RA981.A2A684.
• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth edition), better known as the "DSM-IV," is the standard diagnostic reference for psychiatry. Shelved in Science Reference at call number RC455.2 .C4D54.
• The Oxford Medical Companion (shelved in Science Reference at call number RC41.O84) falls somewhere between a dictioary and an encyclopedia in terms of scope, and deals as much with the history and culture of medicine as it does with specific conditions or anatomy.
• The Michigan Electronic Library maintains a Health Information web page.

Legal information

REFERENCE TOOLS ARE NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL LEGAL ADVICE.

• Black's Law Dictionary (shelved behind the Desk at SSHR withacall number KF156.B53) is the standard guide to the vocabulary of the law, including Latin terms.
• Legal Research in a Nutshell (shelved behind the Desk at call number KF240.C54) is considered one of the best brief guides to finding and using legal publications.
• Guide to American Law, vol. 11 (Appendix) has 180 pages of "boilerplate" standard legal forms. Shelved in SSHR at call number KF156.G77 1983 v.11.
• United States Code Service: Lawyers Edition (shelved with the DCL collection in the SSHR area, at call number KF62 1972 .L38) is an annotated edition of the federal U.S. Code of law.
• An experimental U.S. Code Web server is now being offered by the U. S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library, with this disclaimer: "If you are using it for legal research, we urge you to verify your results with the printed U.S. Code available through the U.S. Government Printing Office." The same content is also available from Cornell Law School, current as of 26 January 1994.
• Michigan Compiled Laws Annotated (shelved in the Michigan Law Collection area of SSHR at call number KFM4230.A3 1967) is an annotated edition of Michigan state law.
• The Michigan Electronic Library maintains a Michigan Law web page.

Personal or family problems

• The "Blue Pages" in most local telephone directories include lists of local government offices and a "Guide to Human Services" such as day care, shelters, support groups and volunteer agencies.
• Public Welfare Directory (shelved at call number REF HV89.A55) provides contact phone numbers for federal and state agencies in the fifty states, the District of Columbia and in Canada.
• The Social Issues and Social Services page of the Michigan Electronic Library leads to some relevant information.
• The federal Department of Health and Human Services has a web page leading to some other internet sites.

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