You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
– Ray Bradbury
Summon that Source!
Our new service searches nearly everything and then provides a variety of faceted limiters to let you pinpoint exactly the information you need.
Find it on the library’s main page: http://www.drew.edu/library
Encyclopedia Britannica online:
The second-biggest encyclopedia on the Internet. Considered more accurate & definitely more prof-pleasing than Wikipedia, but just as easy to use.
Research Resources page,
http://www.drew.edu/library/research/electronic-resources-by-subject
Oxford English Dictionary online:
Your professor used a word that sounds like gobbledygook? Look it up here, in the definitive source for definitions and derivations in the English Language.
On the Research Resources page http://www.drew.edu/library/er/oed
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Need a sound byte, or want to know who said a famous phrase? Use
http://www.drew.edu/library/er/oxford-dictionary-of-quotations
or check out the quotations books Reference PN6080 to PN 6084
Foreign Language Dictionaries
Find dictionaries in the Reference section (Level C) under these call numbers:
| German: | PF 3640 | Spanish: | PC 4640 | Italian: | PC 1640 |
| French: | PC2640 | English: | PE 1625-PE1628 |
Credo Reference
Can you believe all the reference books you can search online here? Do a search on any topic, you’re bound to come up with useful facts:
http://www.drew.edu/library/er/credo-reference
Take the Library on the Road
Our mobile website lets you search the catalog from your smartphone or iPad, and links to mobile-optimized versions of our other databases.
http://www.drew.edu/library/mobile
* Warning: browsing reference books can open up your education!