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Help - Finding Biographies

Biographies of notable people are often in our book  collection. To find them, do a SUBJECT search in the Library Catalog:

 
  • geronimo
  • sting
  • lincoln abraham
  • gates bill
  • bell alexander graham

Notice that you need to put the last name first in SUBJECT searches. These will retrieve both regular biographies and autobiographies. When it is difficult to tell what the last name is, it is better to perform a KEYWORD search:

 
  • Ram Gopal
  • Chief Joseph
  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga
  • Sima Qian
  • Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

But a KEYWORD search will also retrieve books written by these people in addition to books about them.

The BGMI (Biography & Genealogy Master Index) database available from the "B" section of our Databases Page will lead you to numerous biographical materials in hard copy; ask at the sixth floor Reference Desk for help with using it.There are many web based biographical sources. The following websites will lead you most of them:

 
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