ABE
Biographical Print and Web Resources
Print Resources:
Crystal, David. The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia. New York: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 1994. Print.
Call Number: Reference Collection CT103.C26 1994
Current Biography Yearbook. New York: H.W. Wilson Co, 1975-2009. Print.
Call Number: Reference Collection CT100.C8
Garraty, John A, and Mark C. Carnes. American National Biography. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1999. Print.
Call Number: Reference Collection CT213.A68 1999
Mcgraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography: An International Reference Work. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. Print.
Call Number: Reference Collection CT103.M27
Magnusson, Magnus, and Rosemary Goring. Chambers Biographical Dictionary. New
York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990. Print.
Call Number: Reference Collection CT103.C4 1990
Webster's Biographical Dictionary. Springfield, Mass: G. & C. Merrian Co, 1974. Print.
Call Number: Reference Collection CT103.W4 1974
Web Resources:
http://www.biography.com/ The official site of A&E’s Biography television series. It
includes the searchable text of 15,000 entries from the Cambridge Biographical
Encyclopedia and has brief biographies of over 25,000 people, arranged alphabetically
and by category.
http://www.biography-center.com A searchable biographical directory of famous and
infamous people. You can browse by category, alphabetical order, highest rated or by
most popular. This site indexes and provides links to biographies available from other
Web sites.
Library Databases: (http://library.whatcom.ctc.edu, select Resources then Article &
Research Databases)
Contemporary Authors Provides complete biographical and bibliographical
information on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors.
History Resource Center Provides full-text access to a comprehensive collection of
reference and journal articles, primary sources, images, maps and charts which provide
expansive geographic and chronologic research materials for the study of world history.