But the maps in atlases can show more than roads. Country and world atlases may also show climate, economic information, religions, vegetation, or ocean currents. Locate a world atlas, a United States atlas, and one special subject atlas in your library. If a student is doing a research paper on an artist, scientist, or rock star, you would look for the biographical resources in your library. Biographical resources may be dictionaries with short entries or larger encyclopedias with long articles.
Some libraries locate biographical reference information in one place.
Or biographical information about artists may be with books on art, scientist information may be in the science section, etc. To track down a lot of information on someone, you would also steer your user to magazine articles and would look for any biographies in your collection by using the catalog. Some popular titles include Dictionary of American Biography, Current Biography, Biography and Genealogy Master Index, Dictionary of National Biography, or the Who's Who series. If the user needs numbers instead of people or places, look for statistical resources. Locate 2 or 3 statistical resources in your library.