Research Guides
The following sources are provided to supplement the primary information source, L4U, our Online Public Access Catalogue. These titles are suggested as a starting point for your searches. If you need assistance using L4U or any of the materials listed below, please ask the library staff.
General Reference
General Guides
Find it fast: how to uncover expert information on any subject /R. Berkman. REF. AG105 .B533 1997
Guinness world records. REF. AG243 .G95
New York Public Library desk reference. REF. AG6 .N49 1998
Dictionaries/Encyclopedias/Handbooks
Canadian Oxford dictionary / ed. by Katherine Barber. REF. PE3235 .C36
World Book dictionary / ed. by Clarence Barnhart. REF. PE1625 .W6
Familiar quotations / John Bartlett. REF. PN6081 .B27
Dictionary of foreign terms / Charles Berlitz. REF. PE1670 .M3
Brewer’s dictionary of phrase and fable / Ebenezer Brewer. REF. PN43 .B65
Dictionary of symbols / Tom Chetwynd. REF. BL303 .C47
Stoddart visual dictionary / Jean-Claude Corbeil. REF. PE1629 .C67
Encyclopedia Americana. REF. AE5 .E333
Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins / Robert Hendrickson. REF. PE1689 .H47
Oxford dictionary of quotations / Elizabeth Knowles. REF. PN6081 .O98 1999
New Encyclopaedia Britannica. REF. AE5 .E363
Oxford English dictionary (20 v.). REF. PE1625 .O87 1989
Dictionary of euphemisms and other doubletalk / Hugh Rawson. REF. PE1449 .R34
Encarta world English dictionary / ed. by Anne Soukhanov. REF. PE1628 .S5824
Random House dictionary of the English language / ed. by Jess Stein. REF. PE1625 .R3
Larousse illustrated international encyclopedia and dictionary / C. Watson. REF. AG6 .L28
World Book encyclopedia. REF. AE5 .W55
Almanacs
Canadian almanac and directory. REF. AY414 .C19Canadian global almanac. REF. AY414 .C215
Canadian sourcebook. REF. AY754 .A27
Whitaker’s almanack. REF. AY754 .W57
Thesauri
Roget’s international thesaurus / Robert Chapman. REF. PE1591 .R73Webster’s New World thesaurus / Charlton Laird. REF. PE1591 .L27
Roget’s super thesaurus / Marc McCutcheon. REF. PE1591 .M416
Oxford thesaurus / Laurence Urdang. REF. PE2832 .U7
