Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Handbooks
Biographical Sources
Directories
100
A dictionary that includes a great number of definitions, aiming for comprehensive coverage
What is an unabridged dictionary?
100
A way that encyclopedias alphabetize entries that lists letters before blanks.
What is letter-by-letter arrangement?
100
A handbook that tells you when to plant your garden
What is the Farmer’s Almanac?
100
A type of biographical source that provides information about people who are no longer alive.
What is a retrospective source?
100
A way to organize a directory by subject.
What is arrangement by classification?
200
The first stop for locating a quotation
What is Barlett’s?
200
A way to update encyclopedias through publication of supplemental volumes.
What is an annual?
200
A blue book for the state of Texas
What is the Texas Almanac?
200
A type of biographical source that provides citations to publications about a person as well as those written by a person
What is a bio-bibliography?
200
A directory that includes national education statistics
What is NCES?
300
A source that can define abbreviations.
What is Acronym Finder?
300
You would keep historical sets of this encyclopedia set
What is Encyclopedia Britannica?
300
A handbook that describes mental health conditions
What is the DSM?
300
A biographical source that includes entries of people associated with a country.
What is a national biography?
300
A directory that lists open source serial publications
What is DOAJ?
400
New words that might not yet be in a dictionary.
What is a neologism?
400
The Handbook of Texas is an example of
What is a subject encyclopedia?
400
A handbook that tells you what happened on this day in history.
What is Chase’s Calendar?
400
A biographical source that features elite people in today’s news
What is Current Biography?
400
A directory that will tell me which radio stations feature Hawaiian music
What is Radio Locator?
500
A way that encyclopedias alphabetize entries that lists letters before blanks.
What is letter-by-letter arrangement?
500
A reference source that enables you to search within a number of subject encyclopedias
What is Gale Virtual Reference Library?
500
A handbook that provides suggestions on how to behave
What is Emily Posts’?
500
A biographical source that is organized by calendar day.
What is Butler’s Lives of the Saints?
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