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Biography
American National Biography Description: Published by Oxford University Press for the American Council of Learned Societies, it consists of over 17,400 biographies of deceased Americans from all walks of life. The ANB Online is keyword searchable, searches can be narrowed by dates, profession or "Realms of Renown." It also contains thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references and links to selected web sites. The 24 volume print edition is in the Reference Room of the O'Toole Library at E176 .A68 1999. Biographical Dictionary Description: Search by name, date, or keyword. More access points and entries than the A&E site but only dates and occupations are given for each subject. Biographies Plus Illustrated Description: While the American National Biography only profiles deceased Americans, Wilson's Biographies Plus provides 95,000 biographies on on American and foreign persons of renown, dead and alive.Biography Description: Brief paragraphs on over 15,000 individuals from A&E Television and the Cambridge Biographical EncyclopediaDictionary of National Biography Description: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a new 60 volume, 60,000 page biographical dictionary of 54,922 individuals who have made important contributions to British history. It also includes original and newly revised entries on all 38,607 lives in the original DNB publised between 1885 and 1900, and its supplements. The new Oxford DNB cost over £ 22 million and took 12 years to produce. Entries cover the period from ancient times to the year 2000. Like the American National Biography, the Oxford DNB does not provide biographies of living persons, and, just as the ANB is limited to individuals associated with the United States, the DNB only includes individuals associated with the British Isles or with former British colonies. Ten thousand portraits are also included. The O'Toole Library carries both of the print editons (Reference Room DA28 .D47) and has a one-year subscription to the online editionTime Magazine Person of the Year Description: Each year since 1927 Time has profiled the person who, "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year. " In some cases the "person" is a group (scientists in 1960, under 25's in 1966) or object (the computer in 1982, th
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