FSU SLIS Week 6 Intro to Information Services class on Dictionaries/Words by Dr. Lorri Mon at FSU SLIS, Florida's iSchool http://slis.fsu.edu/

1. “Dictionaries & Words”
LIS 5603, Intro to Information Services
Dr. Lorri Mon,
College of Communication & Information

2. Google word definition search using
define:

3. Secret Librarian Trick: Look for “Reference
Tools,” “Reference Shelf,” “Reference Desk”
http://www.lib.fsu.edu

4. Oxford English Dictionary
https://login.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://www.lib.fsu.edu/get/oed

5. Oxford English Dictionary
Completed during 1880’s-1920’s.
414,000 entries and 1.8 million quotations
Features: etymology/word origins, quotes of early uses
of words in the literature. Example:
brouhaha : [a. F. brouhaha (15th c. in Littré).]
A commotion, a to-do, a ‘sensation’; hubbub, uproar.
1890 O. W. HOLMES Over Teacups v. 94, I enjoy the
brouhaha..of all this quarrelsome menagerie of noise-
making machines.
Gaps: proper names, specialized scientific words –
primarily has a literary focus.
http://www.lib.fsu.edu/get/oed

6. Questions for Dictionaries/Word Sources
• what is a “cracker barrel”?
• what‘s the origin of the word “hooch”?
• who first used the word “Sequoia” for trees?
• what does a “pince-nez” look like?

7. DARE
Dictionary of American Regional English:
multi-volumes in print (most academic
libraries will have it); 100 entries are now
available online as an example of the
content:
http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/163

8. Creating the DARE Dictionary:
Chuck Wagon Etiquette
http://dare.wisc.edu/?q=node/206

9. Questions for Dictionaries/Word Sources
• what is a “cracker barrel”?
• what‘s the origin of the word “hooch”?
• who first used the word “Sequoia” for trees?
• what does a “pince nez” look like?

10. Facts on File Visual Dictionary

11. Reader’s Digest Illustrated Reverse

12. Reader’s Digest Illustrated Reverse

13. Dictionary of Symbols

14. Grove’s Dictionary of Music
Now “Grove Music Online”
http://proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://www.grovemusic.com/index.html

15. Grove’s Dictionary of Art
http://proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://www.lib.fsu.edu/get/grove-art

16. Stedman’s Medical Dictionary

17. Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy

18. Finding Dictionaries for Research Guides
Searching in FSU catalog for “dictionary”
and your topic http://fsu.catalog.fcla.edu/fs.jsp?
ADV=S&S=0381349380623286&fl=bo
OCLC Worldcat First Search
https://proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://www.lib.fsu.edu/get/wcfs
UBorrow
http://union.catalog.fcla.edu/ux.jsp
NetLibrary
https://login.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?
profile=ehost&defaultdb=nlebk

19. Questions for Dictionaries/Word Sources
Where can I find:
• quotes about war?
• another word for “fussy”?
• all Shakespeare quotes using the word
‘cheese’?

20. Roget’s Thesaurus

21. Bartlett’s Quotations
A quotation entry - From the Index under
“stick” -

22. Concordances
Shakespeare Concordance, Bible
Concordance, etc. -
Shakespeare Rhymezone
http://www.rhymezone.com/shakespeare/

23. Evaluating Dictionaries
Size and Coverage Features and Content
• Unabridged – largest, • Spelling variants
over 250,000 words, • Pronunciations
attempt at completeness • Word origins (etymology)
• Semi-abridged • Examples of usage
(collegiate) – btw 130,000
and 250,000 words, desk- • Part of speech (adj, noun)
sized; colleges • Run ons (handled
• Abridged (pocket) – separately or not?
55,000 to 130,000 words, Master, masterful, -ly)
often scaled down from a • Phrases as well as words
larger work; used in home (“kicked the bucket”)
or office • Synonyms and antonyms
• Illustrations

24. Resources on Words
• Dictionaries – meanings, pronunciation,
etymology, illustrations
• Thesauri – synonyms, antonyms and related
words
• Quotations – famous sayings in history &
literature
• Style Manuals – grammar and usage
• Concordances – where to find words in a text

25. Examples of Word Sources
Visual Dictionaries Subject Dictionaries
• Facts on File Visual • Stedman’s Medical
Dictionary Dictionary
• Dictionary of Symbols • Grove’s Dictionary of Music
• Reader’s Digest • Grove’s Dictionary of Art
Illustrated Reverse Words, Quotes, Style
Special Purposes • Roget’s Thesaurus
• Acronyms, Initialisms & • Turabian Manual of Style
Abbreviations Dictionary • Bartlett’s Quotations

26. Next Due Dates
• Mon, Oct 8: Question Set (email to
instructor)
Answering each question with 3 different
sources: web, index, books/bibliographic
• Mon, Oct 15: IPL2 Question #1 (first “real
user” question