Favorite Web Sites: Federal and State
Income Tax Information
The web sites featured this month have been critically evaluated
and selected by the IU Northwest librarians as well as a group of academic
and public librarians across the United States who compile a yearly Best
Free Reference Web Sites List for the American
Library Association. Here is a list of selection
criteria initially created by the MARS Best Free Websites Task
Force to choose these sites. The Library hopes our readers will
find these web sites useful for locating reliable, accurate and
authoritative information on the Internet.
While your local library and post office may very well have all
the forms and instructions you'll need to complete your taxes,
it is also very convenient to have the federal forms and information
available on the web. The IRS site contains a nice selection of
formats available to aid viewing and printing of forms. Multiple
files can be selected on the site which means that you can begin
downloading all the files in unison instead of one-by-one. Making
the site even more convenient, links are provided to state tax
forms and to federal forms for previous years. To reach the Forms
and Publications Home Page from the IRS' newly designed web site,
click on the Site Map link and under the Resources section
located in the left frame, choose the Forms and Publications link.
(Revised summary used with permission of the MARS Best Free
Websites Committee)
This well designed site features easy access to Illinois state
tax forms for individuals and businesses in PDF (i.e. Adobe Acrobat(r))
format. Some tax forms can be filled in online and then printed
out. The web page also offers electronic filing as well as resources,
publications and online help for various tax questions.
This very navigable web resource provides clickable links to Indiana
state tax forms, online assistance, electronic services, taxpayer
resources and publications along with tax filing deadlines. The
tax form section includes tax forms that can be viewed and printed
in PDF format using Adobe Acrobat(r) Reader. Some of these forms
can be filled in on the browser and then printed. This page also
links to Indiana prior year forms, federal tax forms and other
states' tax forms.
Reading in the Region: Humorous Social Commentary Kicks Off IU
Northwest's One Book, One Campus Initiative
| Are you looking for
an interesting and intellectual “book club” setting that will
allow you to share your thoughts and join others in reading and
dissecting a new book? Across the country, cities and campuses
have developed a variety of programs in which the community
reads and then discusses a common text. IU Northwest’s’ Reading
in the Region is a One Book, One Campus initiative that will
select a different text each semester, and will then hold a
series of discussions pertaining to topics from the text. Author
Sarah Vowell’s The Partly Cloudy Patriot has been
chosen as the current reading for its frank and witty commentary
on American history and current events. The Library Journal
calls it “Part social commentary and part stand-up comedy
routine for the intellectually inclined, this collection of
essays…mines history and current events for insights into
American life.”
In Patriot, Vowell explores life in America
through a series of essays whose topics range from Tom Cruise
and September 11th, to Rosa Parks and presidential libraries.
Vowell takes you on a literary journey from coast to coast, from
genre to genre, across many miles, years and socioeconomic
boundaries. In an excerpt from her book, Vowell, praising the
writing skills of President Abraham Lincoln, says “Looking at
Lincoln rushing to stave off failure, I felt so close to him. Or
let's say I felt closer. My grandest hope for my own hastily
written sentences is that they would keep a stranger company on
an airplane. Abraham Lincoln could turn a pretty phrase such as
"I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind" and put it in the
proclamation that freed the slaves. Even Mailer wouldn't claim
to top that.”
Sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, the discussion
forums are an excellent opportunity for members of the community
to engage in an open and culturally stimulating dialogue about
many diverse and fascinating topics.
The Partly Cloudy Patriot is available for
check out in the IU Northwest library, for purchase at the IU
Northwest bookstore for $13 and at area bookstores. Discussions
will be held Tuesday, Feb. 28th from 12-2 p.m. and Wednesday,
April 5th from 6-8 p.m. in the IU Northwest Library Conference
Center, room 105 AB. The forums are free and open to the public.
Anyone wishing to participate is encouraged to pick up a copy
and come prepared to discuss what you’ve read.
For more information, contact Robin Hass Birky at 981-7126 or
email rohass@iun.edu or
visit the IU
Northwest
Library's Reading in the Region web site.
(This News release reprinted with permission from the IU
Northwest Office of Marketing and Communication)
Calumet Regional Archives Co-Sponsors Decades of
Diversity Exhibit
IU Northwest's Calumet Regional Archives, in partnership with the
Calumet Ethnic Heritage Alliance, has installed a new exhibit on
the first floor of the IU Northwest Library. Entitled Decades of
Diversity: A Calumet Portrait, the display utilizes
historical photographs documenting the history of various waves
of settlement of Northwest Indiana. Beginning with the Native
Americans, the images trace a number of historical time periods
in Calumet history when different peoples immigrated and/or
migrated to the region in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries. The photographs are from collections preserved in the
Archives as well as from local historical societies.
Decades of Diversity is located in the fine wood
display cases by the first-floor elevators in the IU Northwest Library
and will be available for viewing through most of 2006. For more
information, please contact Steve McShane, Archivist/Curator,
Calumet Regional Archives, at 980-6628 or
smcshane@iun.edu.
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