BIOGRAPHIES
LAPL Databases
- Biography Resource Center (Gale)
- Comprehensive database of biographical information on more than 275,000 individuals from many sources. Includes the complete Marquis Who's Who.
- Discovering Collection
- Comprehensive coverage of core curriculum in Literature, History, Biography, Science and Social Studies, geared to the younger student. Includes Discovering Authors.
- Grove Dictionary of Art
- Comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the 1990's.
- Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
- This database features nearly 30,000 articles on musicians, composers, musicologists, instruments, places, genres, terms, acoustics, and more. Now includes the complete Grove Dictionary of Opera
- Junior Edition (Gale)
- Periodical database designed for students in junior high and middle school, with magazines, newspapers and reference books on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, government, sports and more.
- Literature Resource Center
- Now includes Twayne's Author Series, Scribner's Writers Series and MLA (Modern Language Association). Covers more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,000 of the most-studied authors.
- Oxford African American Studies Center
- Over 7,500 articles, with images, maps, charts & tables, and primary sources focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.
- World Book Encyclopedia
- Offers information on a range of topics.
Biography Websites
- African American Scientists and Inventors
- Famous African American scientists and inventors before and after the civil war.
- American Presidency
- From Grolier Online. Bios of Presidents & spouses, and VPs, plus articles about the Presidency, voting rights, and some quick facts.
- Any Day in History
- Enter month and day to see who was born or died on that day. Can also select events by year and month.
- Biographical Dictionary
- Very brief 1-3 line bios of notable people from ancient to modern times. Has links to other bio sites. It is searchable.
- Biography.Com
- Searchable site with over 20K of short bios on various people from antiquity to the present.
- Butler's Lives of the Saints
(Can only be used in Los Angeles Public Libraries) - Butler's original and complete 4 volume reference set with over 2000 saints, includes writings, history and historical illustrations.
- Celebration of Women Writers
- Collection of bios of selected women writers searchable by name, date, and country.
- Inventor's Hall of Fame
- Has bios of mostly 19th & 20th century inventors in America who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. . It is searchable by name and invention.
- Learning About Leonardo Da Vinci
- Experience this interactive, resource rich, visually compelling and intellectually stimulating site... Your hosts are students from John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx and Sweden producing a multimedia learning environment.
- Literature Resource Center
- Contains biographical and bibliographic information about authors, their works, literary movements and themes. It is searchable. NOTE: by GaleNet may need password.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
- Collection of his papers, sermons, and speeches. Also has articles about and by him, as well as biographical information.
- Masters of Photography
- Selected modern photographers with bios, samples of their works, links to galleries and articles.
- U.S. Supreme Court Justices
- A general site about the Supreme Court, its history and decisions both past and present. It has links to bios of past and present Justices as well as other information about their decisions and the Court in general.
- Women Mathematicians
- List of selected women mathematicians searchable by name or date.