Biography

Reference and Circulating Books Electronic Books Periodicals Websites Subject Headings Additional Materials

Reference and Circulating Books:

The MPC Library uses the Library of Congress Classification System (LC System) to organize its collections. Books about Biography are shelved by related subject areas. General Biography books are shelved in the CT section.

For a more detailed information about this subclass, go to http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco

Reference books are located on the main (second) floor, and circulating books are located on the third floor.

Electronic Books:

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Periodicals:

Websites:

25,000 Biographies from Antiquity to the Present	http://www.Biography.com
Achievement	http://www.achievement.org
African American in the Sciences	https://webfiles.uci.edu/mcbrown/display/faces.html
Art	http://Askart.com
Biographical Dictionary	http://www.s9.com/biography
Biographical Directory of the US Congress, 1744 to Present	http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
Biographies of Women Mathematicians	http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
Congresswoman’s Biographies	http://womenincongress.house.gov/index.html
Hispanic Americans	http://www.gale.com/free_resources/chh/bio/index.htm
Women’s History	http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/index.htm
Woman’s International Center	http://www.wic.org

Subject Headings:

Women-Biography

Biography – 19th Century

Biography – 20th Century

Biography as a literary form

Biography - Dictionaries

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