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Reference Training Materials
This material was used in the graduate Library Media Education
program at Western Kentucky University. It is placed here to allow library
workers to train themselves in the use of reference materials. Copyright
2001 - 2005 Bryan M. Carson.
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Dictionaries in the Reference Section
Bibliography
- Dictionaries
for adults and children*
- ARBA guide
to subject encyclopedias and dictionaries (Ref Desk Z 5848 .A72 1997)
English Dictionaries
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (PE 1625 .A54 and
www.bartleby.com/61/)
- American Heritage
Student's Dictionary*
- Funk & Wagnalls
New International Dictionary of the English Language
- Longman Dictionary
of Contemporary English (REF PE 1628 .L58 1987)
- Macmillan Dictionary
for Children (CD-ROM)
- Merriam-Webster
Online (http://www.m-w.com/)
- Random House
Dictionary of the English Language (REF PE 1625 .R3)
- Oxford Illustrated
Dictionary*
- Random House
Dictionary of the English Language (Unabridged) (REF PE 1625 .R3)
- Scott, Foresman
Beginning Dictionary AND Advanced Dictionary*
- Webster's New
International Dictionary of the English Language (REF PE 1625 .W3 1947x)
- Webster's Third
New International Dictionary of the English Language (REF PE 1625 .W36 1993)
- Webster's Intermediate
Dictionary (REF PE 1628 .W55674)
· Webster's New World Children's Dictionary*
Abbreviations
and Specialized Dictionaries
- Acronyms, Initialisms
& Abbreviations Dictionary (Reference Desk P 365 .G2)
- Abbreviations
Dictionary (REF PE 1693 .D4)
- Oxford Dictionary
of Abbreviations (REF PE 1693 .D4)
- Descriptive
and Visual Dictionary of Objects (REF NK 2441 .D47x)
- A
Basic Dictionary of ASL Terms (American Sign Language) www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html
- Hutchinson
Dictionary of Difficult Words http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/
Etymology
- Americanisms;
a dictionary of selected Americanisms on historical principles (Mathews) (REF
PE 2835 .D52)
- Dictionary
of American English on historical principles (Craigie) (REF E 2835 .C72)
- Dictionary
of Canadianisms on historical principles; dictionary of Canadian English (REF
PE 3243 .D5 )
- Facts-on-File
Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins Also known as Henry Holt Encyclopedia
of Word and Phrase Origins (REF PE 1689 .H47 1997)
- New English
Dictionary on Historical Principles (Murray)*
- Oxford English
Dictionary (REF PE 1625 .O86 and Networked CD-ROM)
Idiom, Slang,
and dialect Dictionaries
- The American
Heritage dictionary of idioms (REF PE 2839 .A47 1997)
- Aw, shucks!
: the dictionary of country jawing (REF PE 2839 .B468 1997)
- Dictionary
of Americanisms on historical principles (Mathews) (Manuscripts and Folklife
Archives PE 2835 .D5 1966x)
- Dictionary
of Contemporary American Usage (Evans) (REF PE 2835 .E84)
- Dictionary
of modern American usage (Garner) (REF PE 2827 .G37 1998)
- Dictionary
of Modern English Usage (Fowler)*
- Facts on File
Dictionary of Cliches (REF PE 1689 .A48 2001)
- Good words
to you : an all-new dictionary and native's guide to the unknown American
language (REF PE 2837 .C54 1987)
- Modern American
Usage (Fowlett) (REF PE 2835 .F6)
- Barnhart Dictionary
of New English Since 1963
- Oxford Dictionary
of New Words
- Oxford dictionary
of American usage and style (REF PE 2827 .G375x 2000)
- Western Words:
Dictionary of the American West (REF PE 2970 .W4 A3 1968)
- Dictionary
of American English on Historical Principles (Craigie) (REF PE 2835 .C72)
- Dictionary
of American Regional English (REF PE 2843 .D52 1985)
- American Dialect
Dictionary (Wentworth) (REF PE 2853 .W4)
- English Dialect
Dictionary (Wright) (REF PE 1766 .W8 1962)
Thesauri
- Doubleday Roget's
Thesaurus in Dictionary Form (REF PE 1591 .D6)
- Longman Synonym
Dictionary*
- Random House
Thesaurus*
- Roget's International
Thesaurus (Ref Desk PE 1591 .R73x)
- Roget's Thesaurus
of English Words and Phrases (REF PE 1591 .R73x)
- The Oxford
Desk Thesaurus (Ref Desk PE1591 .U75 1995)
- Webster's Collegiate
Thesaurus (REF PE 1591 .W38)
- Webster's New
Dictionary of Synonyms (REF PE 1591 .W4 1973)
Foreign-language,
Translating, and International Dictionaries--Look in the following call number
ranges:
- Albanian-English,
English-Albanian dictionary and phrasebook (REF PG9591 .H975x 2000)
- Bosnian PG1239.5
- PG 1377
- Bosnian-English,
English-Bosnian dictionary (Ref Desk PG 1377 .U95x 1995)
French PC 2108 - PC 3741
- German PF 3146
- PF 5636
- Meyers
neues Lexikon (REF AE 27 .M69)
- Italian PC
1460 - PC 1645
- Serbo-Croatian
(Bosnian) PG1239.5 - PG 1377
- English-SerboCroatian
dictionary (REF PG 1376 .B38)
- Spanish PC
4625 - PC 4822
- Russian PG
2111 - PG 309