Library Resources for Translating and Interpreting
Part 1 – Traditional Library Resources
How to use the AUC Library Catalog to find background information such as online dictionaries, encyclopedias and other general reference tools:
AUC Library’s Website
http://library.aucegypt.edu/
Subject Guides
http://library.aucegypt.edu/guides/index.htm
Recommended Web Sites *especially Dictionaries and Thesauri http://library.aucegypt.edu/guides/quickreference.htm
Intro to Library Research
http://www.aucegypt.edu/academic/library/instruction/research101/index.html
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:
http://www.iti.org.uk/indexMain.html
The Rosetta Project
http://www.rosettaproject.org
http://world.altavista.com/
Google Language Tools
http://www.google.com/language_tools
Martindale's
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Language.html
More Dictionaries
http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html
A web of online dictionaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com/
World Ref
http://www.wordreference.com/
Euro-dictionary
http://www.europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/Controller
Librarian’s Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/
Part 3 – In-class exercise
Part 4 – The Assignment (from Dr Mustafa Riad)
