Reference Materials: Biographical Resources

People of global significance from antiquity to the present. Multimedia from 1984 - until today. Coverage dates 1936 - present

Gateway to Oxford’s art reference works, including the peer-reviewed, Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.

Information on literary figures from all time periods. Information includes criticism, biographies, bibliographies, work overviews, Web sites, periodical articles, full-text author's works, and reading lists. Coverage dates: varies

Database includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, and Short Story Criticism. Volumes before 2007 are included, however, some early texts are not available online. These texts can be obtained in print from offsite storage. Coverage dates: 1400 - present

Genealogy resources including U.S. and U.K. census data, ships' logs and passenger indexes, vital records, WWI draft cards, maps, reference ebooks, and more. Basic library subscription. Users will need a personal subscription to create a tree online. Coverage dates: 1400 - 1999

Genealogy research with census, ship passenger lists, marriage, and other vital records as well as family history full text books. Coverage dates: 1790 - 2014