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Library Subject Guides
Biography
| Subject Headings |
| These subject headings may be used to locate books in the Pellissippi Library Catalog and netLibrary eBook collection. |
| Also search for Biographies under ethnic and individual groups: |
| Call numbers for browsing |
| Use this call number to browse the circulating and reference collections: |
| Databases |
| Access Science - (online) - Electronic version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology: includes biographies. AP Multimedia Archive (Associated Press) - AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive contains approximately 700,000 photos. (Best viewed with Internet Explorer.) Discovering Collection- Covers various fields and individuals from the areas of history, science, social science, and literature. Oxford Reference Online - provides searchable access to 100 dictionary and reference titles published by Oxford Press. Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated (online)offers over 72,000 narrative profiles of figures from antiquity to the present. * You may access online databases from off-campus computers by entering your general computer account username and password (used for PSTCC e-mail). NOTE: Enter your username in this format example: s_jmdoe. It is not necessary to add "@pstcc.edu" for this application. |
| Reference Books |
| American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. REF CT 213 .A68 The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia.(all campuses) New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. REF CT 103 .C26 1994 Current Biography. New York: H.W. Wilson. REF CT 100 .C8 Published annually and covers prominent figures each year. Dictionary of World Biography. Englewood Cliffs: Salem Press. REF CT 104 .D54 1998 Ancient world through present. Concise Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Scribner's. REF Q 141 .C55 2000 McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography. New York: McGraw-Hill. REF CT 103 .M27 New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Washington, DC: Macmillan. REF ML 100 .N48 1988 Tennessee Biographical Dictionary. St Clair Shores, MI: Somerset. REF CT 261 .T46 2000 Women in World History: a Biographical Encyclopedia. 17 vols. Waterford, CT: Yorkin Publications. REF HQ 1115 .W6 1999 |
| Web Resources |
| Biography.com (http://www.biography.com) The A&E channel's popular, award-winning documentary series includes 25,000 biograpical entries of past and present notable subjects. WWW Virtual Library: General Reference, Biographical (http://home.istar.ca/~obyrne/biog.html) - Contains links to many biographical resources. |
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