Reference Training Materials

This material was used in the graduate Library Media Education program at Western Kentucky University. It is placed here to allow library workers to train themselves in the use of reference materials. Copyright 2001 - 2005 Bryan M. Carson.
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Genealogy and Biography Resources

Indexes and Abstracts

Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Index Tables and WKU Internet Resources)
Biography Index (Index Tables)
Biography Reference Bank (H.W. Wilson) (WKU Internet Resources) (Includes Current Biography and Biography Index)
New York Times Biographical Service (REF CT 120 .N45)
Personal Name Index to the New York Times (Shelved with New York Times Index at REF AI 1 .N45)
Subject Indexes, i.e. Historical Abstracts or America: History and Life**

Biographical Resources

Lives (Only includes deceased people) http://amillionlives.com/
Distinguished Women of Past and Present www.distinguishedwomen.com/
American Men and Women of Science (REF Q 141 .A474)
Annual Obituary (REF CT 120 .A56)
Biographical Dictionary of American Indian History to 1900 (REF E 89 .W35 2001)
Biographical Dictionary of Hispanic Americans (REF E 184 .S75 M49 2001)
Biography.com www.biography.com/
Butler's Lives of the Saints–also known as Lives of the Saints; also known as Lives of the fathers, martyrs and other principal saints (REF BX 4654 .B84 1961x)
Contemporary Authors (Index Tables and Wilson Biography Reference Bank)
Contemporary Literary Criticism (REF PN 771 .C592)
19th Century Literary Criticism (Shelved with Contemporary Literary Criticism)
20th Century Literary Criticism (Shelved with Contemporary Literary Criticism)
Contemporary Teatre, Film and Television (PN 2012 .W5)
Current Biography (Index Tables)
Dictionary of International Biography*
Directory of American Scholars (LA 2311 .C32)
Encyclopedia of World Biography*
Great Lives from History (REF HQ 1412 .G74)
Journalist Biographies Master Index (Index Tables)
National Faculty Directory (REF L 901 .N34)
Scholastic Encyclopedia of Women in the United States (Ed Center Juv)
The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives (REF GV 697 .A1 S43 2002)
Variety Obituaries (REF PN 1583 .V35)
Women in World History (REF HQ 1121 .H93)

National Biography

American National Biography (REF CT 213 .A68)
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography (E 176 .A65)
Burke's Peerage (REF CS 420 .B85x)
Canadian Who's Who (F 1033 .C23)
Dictionary of American Biography (DAB) (E 176 .D562)
Dictionary of American History (DAH) (E 174 .D52 1976)
Dictionary of Canadian Biography (REF F 1005 .D49)
Dictionary of National Biography (British) (DNB) (REF DA28 .D59 1990)
National Cyclopedia of American Biography (E 176 .N28)

Who's Who series (Various call numbers and Index Tables)**

Who was Who (REF DA28 .W65 A1)
Who was Who in America (E176 .W64)
Who's Who (British) (REF DA 28 .W6)
Who's Who Among Black Americans--Continued by: Who's Who Among African Americans (E 185.96 .W52)
Who's Who in America (REF E 176 .W642)
Who's Who in American Education (LA 2311 .W46x)
Who's Who in the World (REF CT 120 .W5)
International Who's Who (REF CT 120 .I5)
Marquis Who's Who database (WKU Internet Resources)