It is difficult to find biographic information on living, young, theological, new, religious, or foreign authors. Follow the following suggestions and search through the listed tools to aid your search for biographic information.
Arrangement is alphabetical by person who is the subject unless otherwise indicated.
Some are located in the Reference Collection at the beginning of the Dewey sequence on the main floor, other at various places in the stacks. This is the most comprehensive index available for finding biographical sketches. The first set of volumes alone is an index to 3,200,000 biographical sketches in some 350 current and retrospective biographical dictionaries. In addition to the basic set, it has a supplement of another eight or so volumes, and is continuing its supplements into the future. It is practically an index to many of the basic sources for biography that are listed below.