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About Information Literacy

STEP 1: STARTING out

STEP 2: FINDING

Information finding tools:

- Catalogue

- DDC (Dewey) system

- The Internet

- Databases (incl CD Rom)

Searching techniques:

- Boolean Logic

- Truncation/wildcards

- Phrase searching

Information sources:

- Dictionaries

What is it?

Types

Online

- Encyclopaedias

- Atlases

- Books

- Periodicals/Journals

- Newspapers

- Audio-visual

- Internet

- Broadcast media

- Grey literature

- Conference proceedings

- Maps

- Government publications

- Standards

- Museums

- Archives

- Theses and dissertations

- Quiz

STEP 3: EVALUATE

STEP 4: Legal & ethical USE

STEP 5: COMMUNICATE


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Types of dictionaries

The following titles will give you an idea of the variety of dictionaries available at the Library. There are many more.

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t Language dictionaries t
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t Collins English dictionary t
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t English-Zulu Zulu-English dictionary t
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t Webster's third new international dictionary of the English language t
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t English-Xhosa dictionary t
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t The Oxford dictionary of abbreviations t
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t Dictionary of contemporary slang t
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t A dictionary of English usage in Southern Africa t
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t Subject dictionaries t
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t Dictionary of library terms t
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t Dictionary of legal words and phrases t
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t Dictionary of feminist theory t
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t A dictionary of birds t
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t Dictionary of applied ecology t
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  Dictionary of advertising and marketing  
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t A political and economic dictionary of Africa t
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t Biographical dictionaries t
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t Dictionary of African biography t
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t A biographical dictionary of artists t
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t The biographical dictionary of scientists t
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t An African biographical dictionary t
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t Biographical dictionary of the Middle East t
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