Mustafa Riad
Alison Armstrong
Part 1 – traditional library resources
How to use the catalog to find background information such as online dictionaries, encyclopedias and other general reference tools:
From the AUC Library’s Website http://library.aucegypt.edu/ go to
Research Guides http://library.aucegypt.edu/guides/index.htm and then to
General Guides http://library.aucegypt.edu/guides/handouts.htm
Once at the General Guides page, I would look at the html format of Reference Tools, http://library.aucegypt.edu/guides/ref_tools.htm . There are links to the AUC catalog for print resources. Scrolling down the page, importantly are three online resources, notably the Oxford Reference Online and a link to the Reference section of the library’s Electronic Resources page.
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html?authstatuscode=202
http://www1.aucegypt.edu/library/libdata/subject.cfm?classid=7
How to find Mona Baker’s book and David Crystal’s book:
From the AUC Library’s Website http://library.aucegypt.edu/ go to
AUC Library Catalog http://library.aucegypt.edu/catalog/index.htm and
search by author, last/family name firstname
Note her book is “on search” check the LCSH of Translating and Interpreting. Crystal has numerous titles and all LCSH are worth noting …
Part 2 – On the Internet
A search in Google or Scholar.Google with the terms of resources for translators produces references to the scholarship of translating or information about the profession of translating rather than tools like polyglots.
For Example:
(fyi http://webct.aucegypt.edu:8900/SCRIPT/LALT10116/scripts/serve_home for search engine features)
http://www.iti.org.uk/indexMain.html - UK institute
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/cl/yuste/postworkshop/repository/dsaintrobert.pdf UN paper
http://www.rosettaproject.org/live The Rosetta Project
For translating tools, check any search engine’s “advanced features/helplinks”
http://world.altavista.com/ = Babel Fish Translation
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en = Google Language Tools
http://search.yahoo.com/search/options?fr=fp-top&p= Yahoo Advanced
And other tools from the web:
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Language.html Martindale’s
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ A web of online dictionaries
http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html Dictionaries
http://www.wordreference.com/ World Ref
http://www.europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller Euro-dictionary
http://lii.org/ Librarian’s Index to the Internet
Part 3 – Tour of the Main Library
Review material available at:
http://library.aucegypt.edu/tutorial/ catalog tutorial
http://library.aucegypt.edu/tour/indexx.htm virtual tour
http://library.aucegypt.edu/guides/index.htm library guides
