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Biographical Research

Finding biographical information

Books

To search for biographies of specific figures: From the homepage click on Advanced Search, and then use the pull down menu to limit to the subject field, and pull-down the Books option in the Material Type menu. Type in the name of you subject in the subject field. 

Materials Outside the Consortium

WorldCat

WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog, containing more than 35 million records from more than 50,000 libraries in more than ninety countries. Use this tool to discover biographical material on your subject that may not be in our library or the broader consortium.