Some Information from AT&T Education - 21 st Century Literacies Choosing the Right Resource.

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Some Information from AT&T Education - 21 st Century Literacies Choosing the Right Resource

Dictionary What resource do I use if I want to… define a word?

Atlas What resource do I use if I want to… find a map?

Phone Book What resource do I use if I want to… find the phone number of the local movie theater?

Encyclopedia What resource do I use if I want to… find basic information about my topic?

Book of Quotations What resource do I use if I want to… find a quote?

Biography What resource do I use if I want to… find information about a person's life and work ?

Index What resource do I use if I want to… find the contents of magazines, journals, newspapers, etc.

Almanac What resource do I use if I want to… find information about trends in the weather for the coming year?

Readers Guide to Periodical Literature What resource do I use if I want to… find a magazine article about my research topic?

Bibliography What resource do I use if I want to… find list of reference materials, usually about the same topic or by the same author, used in research ?

Copyright What is… the document that grants exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work ?

Card Catalogue What resource do I use if I want to… find a listing of all the books in a library ?

Newspaper What resource do I use if I want to… find an article about something that just happened ?

Periodical What resource do I use if I want to… Find an article that appeared in a magazine ?

Thesaurus What resource do I use if I want to… find a synonym for a word ?

Nonfiction What kind of book do I read if I want to read… works portraying events which actually occurred and/or characters who actually existed ?

Journal What type of periodical is… dedicated to a particular subject ?