DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
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Reference Collections:-

  • Bartlett's Quotations :- Every Quotation in the print source is searchable by author, word, and keyword.
  • Big Book:- It serves as one enormous compendium of commercial directories, offering listings from more than 5000 Yellow pages directories, thoughtout the United States and Canada.
  • Books in Print:- This electronic version of a longtime and reputable source of book-ordering information calls itself the book industry's most comprehensive source, providing, in addition to source and ordering information on books in print (in the English Language, primarily), a rounding of publishing industry news and other features.
  • Virtual Reference Desk: A compendium of thesauri,dictionaries, telephone books and similar reference tools, all in one source.
  • Who's Alive and Who's Dead:- It is an extremely useful biographical directory. Searches by various categories(e.g. actors and actresses, sports figure) to find out whether a person is alive or dead. Continually updated for currency and offers e-mail delivery of updates, birth dates for everyone listed, and an icon indicating whether subjects are alive and at least 80 years old.
  • The World Bank:- It offers extraordinarily up-to-date geopolitical information, useful in a world where cities and even countries change their names frequently. An accessible knowledge base of the countries of the world, together with the latest news and assessment of the political situation for each nation.
  • Britannica Online: Britannica is still the best all-around general reference encyclopedia available, and even more powerful online. Briefly, in late 1999, Britannica was offered as a free reference service to Internet users, but availability was suspended indefinitely shortly thereafter when millions of hits swamped the EB computers.This site renders searchable every page of each part of the historic and renowned Encyclopedia Britannica, and whereas the print edition is extemely expensive and divides knowledge rather arbitrarily into three types:
    • Propedia (outline of knowledge)
    • The Macropedia (Lengthy articles on major topics)
    • Micropedia (shorter articles similar to those found in more conventional encyclopedias).

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