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The following reference books are located on the 3rd floor of the Thompson Library.

Current Biography Yearbook
Call Number: Reference Collection CT 100 .C8
Publication Date: 1940-2009
Articles about persons of note. A monthly edition is kept until the yearbook arrives. Includes cumulative indexes of previous years.
Encyclopedia of World Biography by Suzanne M. Bourgoin; Paula K. Byers
Call Number: Reference Collection CT 103 .E56 1998
ISBN: 0787622214
Publication Date: 1997
2nd edition (2004) is available online.
American National Biography by John A. Garraty (Editor); Mark C. Carnes (Editor)
Call Number: Reference Collection CT 213 .A68 1999
ISBN: 0195206355
Publication Date: 1999
Also available online.
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives by Kenneth T. Jackson (Editor)
Call Number: Reference Collection CT 213 .S37 1998
ISBN: 0684804921
Publication Date: 1998
Great Lives from History, American Series by Frank N. Magill (Editor)
Call Number: Reference Collection CT 214 .G74 1987
ISBN: 0893565296
Publication Date: 1987
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by H. C. G. Matthew (Editor); Brian Harrison (Editor)
Call Number: Reference Collection DA 28 .O95 2004
ISBN: 019861411X
Publication Date: 2004
Also available online.
Dictionary of American Biography and Supplements
Call Number: Reference Collection E 176 .D563
Publication Date: 1927-1980
Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography by Grant Wilson & John Fiske, eds.
Call Number: Reference Collection E 176 .A666
Publication Date: 1968 (1888)