LSU Libraries - Reference Tools Tutorial

CONTENTS:

Introduction
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Almanacs
Bibliographies
Biographical Dictionaries
Concordances
Directories
Chronologies
Atlases and Gazetteers
Handbooks and Manuals
Statistics

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Biographical Dictionaries

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES give brief background information on important people such as their dates of birth and death, educational and professional history, and what significant things they have accomplished. (Note: Biographical dictionaries often call themselves "directories" or "who's who")

Examples:

Many of the most popular biographical dictionaries are located on Reference Table 1 behind the Reference Desk but there are also others throughout the library.

There are also several online biographical dictionaries available through the library's "Indexes and Databases" webpage such as:

Biography Resource Center Full-text biographical information on more than 185,000 people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Biography and Genealogy Master Index Indexes current and retrospective biographical dictionaries and Who's Who that cover both contemporary and historical figures, providing citations to biographies of individuals from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

LexisNexis Academic (Choose "Reference" and then "Biographical Information") Full-text articles about contemporary politicians, business executives, etc.

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