Offers a biographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields. Provides complete biographical and bibligraphical references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world. An international bibliography of English-language books. Does not include government documents, music scores, self-published works, genealogies, or other material of a local or ephemeral nature. Covers many fields in the humanities and social sciences, such as history, economics, political science, religion, film, and drama.
Literary criticism is emphasized, with coverage of authors from around the world.
All Time Favorites . Includes the full text of public domain poems and excerpts from poems in copyright. Available from search stations at any Multnomah County Library. Indexing begins in February 1984 and the abstracting service begins with January 1994. Must have a Multnomah County Library card to use this service from outside of the Library Lasercat Provides access to almost 4.9 million cataloging records with local call numbers and holdings for more than 500 libraries.