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Biography

This research guide is a partial list of materials available to assist you in beginning a research project. It is arranged by broad categories commonly required for assignments. The materials are shelved in numerical order in the Youth Services Reference collection.

Ask a Librarian if you have any questions or need assistance.

General Encyclopedias J REF (at the Homework Center)

New Book of Knowledge
World Book Encyclopedia
The Grolier Student Encyclopedia

Biography (General) J REFERENCE

	305.4 KEE	Scholastic Encyclopedia of Women in the United States
	305.403 MAT	American Women’s History
	364.1092 MAC	Outlaws, Mobsters & Crooks
	364.10922 VIL	Villains and Outlaws
	509.22 BIO	Biography Today: Scientists and Inventors Series
	509.22 SCI	Lives and Legacies: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World: Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors
	629.4 SPA	Space Exploration: Biographies
	629.4500922 CAS	Who’s Who in Space
	700.922 CRE	Creative and Performing Artists for Teens
	700.922 LIV	Lives and Works in the Arts: from the Renaissance to the 20th Century
	796 SUL	Great Lives: Sports
	796.0922 PAR	Sports Stars
	809 LEM	Profiles of Illinois Authors for Young People
	909.07 CRU	The Crusades: Biographies
	909.07 KNI	Middle Ages: Biographies
	909.81 OUT	Industrial Revolution: Biographies
	909.82 HAN	Cold War: Biographies
	910.922 EXP	Explorers and Discoverers
	910.922 EXP	Explorers and Exploration
	910.922 EXP	Explorers: from Ancient Times to the Space Age
	920 BIO	Biography for Beginners
	920 BIO	Biography Today
	920 COL	Notable Illinois Women
	920 GRO	Grolier Library of North American Biography
	920 HUD	Afro-Bets Book of Black Heroes from A to Z
	920 KIN	Kings and Queens
	920 UXL	Newsmakers
	920.00904 CON	Contemporary Heroes and Heroines
	920.073 MOS	Profiles in American History
	920.077311	Chicago Portraits
	920.72 GRE	Book of Black Heroes: Great Women in the Struggle
	920.72 GRO	Grolier Library of Women’s Biographies
	920.922 EXP	Explorers and Discoverers of the World
	920.922 WAL	Who Was Who in World Exploration
	920.922 WOR	World Explorers and Discoverers
	928 SCI	Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers
	928 SOM	Something about the Author
	928 YES	Yesterday’s Authors of Books for Children
	930 KNI	Ancient Civilizations: Biographies
	940.21 SAA	Renaissance and Reformation: Biographies
	940.3 PEN	World War I: Biographies
	940.53 WOR	World War II: Biographies
	940.5318 PEO	People of the Holocaust
	940.5318 VOI	Voices of the Holocaust
	940.53180922 RES	Rescue and Resistance: Portraits of the Holocaust
	951.9042 BEN	Korean War: Biographies
	956.70442 HIL	War in the Persian Gulf: Biographies
	959.7043 HIL	Vietnam War: Biographies
	970.00497 WAL	Who Was Who in Native American History
	973.00992 QUI	Roots of the Republic
	973.0497 SIG	Young Oxford History of Women in the United States (Volume 11)
	973.0922 PRE	The Presidents
	973.099 MAT	Complete American Presidents Sourcebook
	973.099 WOR	The World Book of America’s Presidents
	973.0992 KAN	Facts About the Presidents
	973.0992 PAL	The World Almanac of First Ladies
	973.0992 PRE	The Presidents: A Reference History
	973.2 SAA	Colonial America: Biographies
	973.30922 SCH	American Revolution: Biographies
	973.7 HIL	American Civil War: Biographies
	973.70922 SIF	Who Was Who in the Civil War
	973.91 HAN	Great Depression and New Deal: Biographies
	973.915 HOW	Roaring Twenties: Biographies
	978 PEN	Westward Expansion: Biographies

Browsing the Shelves

Information will be found in different shelf locations based on the subject area. Below is just a small sampling of subject areas. Ask a Librarian for additional locations.

J 920 – 927 — General collected biographies
J 920.72 — Women
JB Biographies

Computer Catalog Subject Headings

Continue your research:

Use the computer catalog to find resources about the person by entering their name, last name first
Ask a Librarian for additional subject headings.

Magazines

Additional information may be found in these magazines:

Biography Today
Cobblestone

Electronic Resources & Internet Searches

1. Expand your research by searching the online encyclopedias and databases using Online Resources: History. Click on American History or Ancient History & Culture orWorld History > Biographies (type the person’s name in the Search box).

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Use Online Resources: Encyclopedias & Atlas. Click on World Book Encyclopedia or New Book of Knowledge (type the person’s name in the Search box).

2. Find selected Internet sites using Internet Links: Resources for Homework > Biography Sites. Choose one of the categories.

3. Use the Library’s Premium Search Databases. (Use any of the five databases shown. If using these outside the Library and you are asked for identification, use the barcode on the back of your library card and the PIN used with your card.)

4. Access to a managed set of Internet links is available in Youth Services to students who are registered with a signed Internet Use Permission Form on file.

5. Each resource has a different search strategy, so be sure to ask a Librarian to assist you.

6. Printing articles at the Library:

Black & white at 10¢ a page (20¢ for 11x17)
Color at $1.00 a page ($2.00 for 11x17)
E-mail to your home address at no cost

revised 10/06

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