Literature Online Reference Resources
An 8-title collection of reference resources on poetry, the novel, and literary theory
Literature Online currently makes the following reference works searchable individually or as a group:

 

• The Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English (Routledge, 1994)
• Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (Columbia University Press, 1995)
• Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998)
• Encyclopedia of the Novel (Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998)
• New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton University Press, 1993)
• The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story (Columbia University Press, 2001)
• The Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature (Columbia University Press, 1980)

Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (English-German)
-from Oxford Reference Online

. Inglise-Eesti-LaLti-Leedu-Vene soLnaraamat / [koostajad Anu Vaba ja Lembit Vaba]. 9985575784 series Tallinn : Kirjastus Ilo , 2004.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PH625 .I65 2004

Higbie, James. . Lao-English, English-Lao dictionary and phrasebook / James Higbie. 0781808588 series New York : Hippocrene Books, c2001.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL4251.L34 H54 2001

Oxford English Dictionary
Complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (vols 1 and 2) and 1997 (vol 3). Draft material for the upcoming 3rd edition (2010) also included.

Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (English-French)
-from Oxford Reference Online

Series Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2001.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks REF DA677 .P33 2001

Contains 45,000 authoritative articles on all aspects of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography.

Kokwaro, J. O. . Luo biological dictionary / John O. Kokwaro, Timothy Johns. 9966468412 series Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers, 1998.
Call#: University Museum Library MUSEUM QK402.K4 K68 1998

Rev. ed. of: Luo-English botanical dictionary of plant names and uses.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263).

 

Odaga, Asenath. . Dholuo-English dictionary / Asenath Bole Odaga. series Kisumu, Kenya : Lake Publishers & Enterprises, 2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL8375.4 .O34 2005

Gray, John. . Luo-English and English-Luo dictionary / compiled by John Gray, Joy Adhiambo Gwendo. 9966995056 series Nairobi, Kenya : J. Gray and J.A. Gwendo, 2006.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PL8375.4 .G73 2006

Concise Medical Dictionary
-from Oxford Reference Online

Concise Medical Dictionary
-from Oxford Reference Online

Dictionary of Biology
-from Oxford Reference Online

Dictionary of Ecology
-from Oxford Reference Online

Dictionary of Plant Sciences
-from Oxford Reference Online

Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units
-from Oxford Reference Online

Dictionary of Zoology
-from Oxford Reference Online

Food and Fitness: A Dictionary of Diet and Exercise
-from Oxford Reference Online

Life Science Dictionary

Dictionary of the Middle Ages / Joseph R. Strayer, editor in chief. [0684167603 (v. 1) : ] New York : Scribner, c1982-
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks D114 .D5 1982

Neff, Ivan C., 1928-. Dictionary of oriental rugs : with a monograph on identification by weave / Ivan C. Neff & Carol V. Maggs. [0949937355] London : Ad. Donker, 1977.
Call#: University Museum Library NK2808 .N27

 

A concise and reasonably informative dictionary of rug terms, and ethnographic and geographic information related to the rugs of anatolia, iran, the caucasus and central asia.  Casts a critical eye on much of the literature and lore of earlier books on the topic.  Has a good, detailed insert map.  The dictionary is prefaced by the monograph on identification by weave and an illustrated appendix showing rug specimens from the front and back.  The appendix attempts to document the major point of the monograph, specifically that the provenance of rugs can be determined by their "finger prints", technical details evident in the materials and structure of the weave.  The only thing new here is the exaggeration of the authors' claim.