Reference Tools

• AllMovie Guide Biographies, filmographies, essays, and reviews.
• AllMusic Guide Biographies, discographies, essays, and reviews.
• AllMusic--Classical Biographies, discographies, essays, and reviews.
• Bartleby Reference Menu provides an encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, quotations, guides to English usage and more.
• Ready Reference Links to hundreds of reference tools from the Central Reference department of Norlin Library.
• InformationPlease provides a general almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia, and specialized almanacs of sports, entertainment, for children, and other topics.
• Research Quick Start from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Libraries identifies the appropriate indexes to scholarly articles, magazine and newspaper articles, Internet resoures, biographical sources, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, and handbooks and manuals by discipline. Although based on the physical and electronic collections of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Research Quick Start is a good way to identify the basic reference tools for an area of study or academic discipline. Once you have identified the basic tools, check Chinook for call numbers and locations and gateways to electronic databases.