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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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Online dictionaries

Not only do we have dictionaries in paper format, but there are also many online dictionaries available.

The examples below are online dictionaries. Click on the underlined words and it will take you to these web sites.

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  INTERNET LINKS: if the computer is not linked to the Internet, you will not be able to access these web sites.  
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  Oxford English dictionary online  
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  Cambridge dictionaries online  
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  Language dictionaries, multi-lingual dictionaries, speciality dictionaries, the Endangered Language Repository - the sanctuary for endangered languages on the World Wide Web, and more  
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  Oxford Reference Online  
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