Strategies and tools for finding biographies, or written accounts of someone's life. Finding book-length biographies To 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, j Search tools Biography and Genealogy Master Index Multi-volume index with references to millions of biographical sketches in hundreds of resources. Print location: Z 5305 U5 B56 1980 Biography Index, 1949 - 2009 Annual index includes citations for articles in books and journals. Print location: Z 5301 B5 Biographical essays Current Biography These volumes provide essays on international personalities, with emphasis on Americans. Often includes photographs. Print location: CT 100 C8 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online to 1930 Historical, 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 D49 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography More 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 resources Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians Includes entries on a large number of composers and performers, past and present. Biographical Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2004 Includes bibliographic references Also available in print CBR: Canadian Business Resource See Executive Profiles Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 1920-80 Multi-volume set. Print location: Q 141 D5 English Language and Literature: Biographical Resources Resources organized by category North American Indian Thought and Culture 17th century to present Full-text biographies and autobiographies. Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History Includes more than 650 biographies of influential women Journal articles Biographical 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 Abstracts Sample search: Subject Terms: biography and churchill More resources The 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 Â