LIS 520  Janes

Autumn 2001

 

Resource Set 1

Sources About Everything (Encyclopedias:  General, Children’s, One-Volume, Subject, Foreign; Web Catalogs; Virtual Libraries)

 

·         Encyclopedia Britannica in print, on Web

·         Encyclopedia Americana in print

·         Microsoft Encarta on CD (on SLIS server), smaller version on Web

·         World Book Encyclopedia in print, on CD (public libraries will have this)

·         a one-volume encyclopedia (Random House, Concise Columbia, etc); also Columbia 6th on Web

·         Encyclopedia of New York City

·         Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science

·         McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology

·         New Catholic Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Judaica

·         Encarta Africana; Web companion at Africana.com

·         Free Internet Encyclopedia

·         Yahoo

·         About.com

·         Ask an Expert sites  (Virtual Reference Desk)