Strategies and tools for finding biographies, or written accounts of someone's life. Finding book-length biographiesTo find biographical books about a specific person, search Omni by the person as a Subject. Use the person's last name followed by first name or initial. Examples: chretien, jean OR chretien, jSearch toolsBiography and Genealogy Master IndexMulti-volume index with references to millions of biographical sketches in hundreds of resources. Print location: Z 5305 U5 B56 1980Biography Index, 1949 - 2009Annual index includes citations for articles in books and journals. Print location: Z 5301 B5Biographical essaysCurrent BiographyThese volumes provide essays on international personalities, with emphasis on Americans. Often includes photographs. Print location: CT 100 C8Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online to 1930Historical, biographical dictionary with scholarly articles on thousands of men and women, predominantly those who died on or before 1930. Is being continually expanded. Includes business people, artists, politicians, nurses, judges, doctors, soldiers, athletes and poets. Also available in print Location: WLU 3rd Floor Reference - FC25 D49Oxford Dictionary of National BiographyMore than 50,000 biographies of people of distinction in the British Isles and its colonies, from the 4th century to the 21st. New edition of the 1885 work.Subject-specific resourcesBaker's Biographical Dictionary of MusiciansIncludes entries on a large number of composers and performers, past and present.Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2004Includes bibliographic references Also available in printCBR: Canadian Business ResourceSee Executive ProfilesDictionary of Scientific Biography, 1920-80Multi-volume set. Print location: Q 141 D5English Language and Literature: Biographical ResourcesResources organized by categoryNorth American Indian Thought and Culture 17th century to presentFull-text biographies and autobiographies.Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World HistoryIncludes more than 650 biographies of influential womenJournal articlesBiographical articles can be found by searching many of the databases available for Laurier users. Try including the word "biography" in the subject, descriptor, or keyword field. Example:Historical AbstractsSample search: Subject Terms: biography and churchillMore resourcesThe Library has many more dictionaries and directories of biographical information for all subject areas. For example, try searching for these strings of keywords in the subject field in the Omni search tool. Examples: biography canada dictionaries biography canada directories biography authors english