LibGuides: Biographical Resources: A Guide to Library Research: Books &amp; Ebooks

Reference Books

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
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
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)