Biographical Resources: Books
Search QCAT, the Library Catalogue to locate books on a specific individual or type of individual.
Biographies of individuals can be found by performing a subject search on the individual's name. Type the last name first and as much of the name as you know.Atwood Marg
Beethoven
Mao
Dickens Charles
To find biographies of groups of individuals, you can either
search by subject using the appropriate Library
of Congress subject heading and adding Biography.
Beethoven
Mao
Dickens Charles
Authors Canadian Biography
Women Biography
Actors Biography
Prime Ministers Canada Biography
Kingston Ont. Biography
If you do not know the Library of Congress Subject Heading for
your topic, do a keyword Boolean search. A keyword word search will
generally retrieve more items, though many of them may not be
relevant. Look for relevant titles and then click on subject
hypertext links to perform a quick subject search, and locate
similar items.
Women Biography
Actors Biography
Prime Ministers Canada Biography
Kingston Ont. Biography
"world war" and biography
Last Updated: 13 August 2009
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