Bio Lab

Terry Wasserman Biography Lab Prof. Okobi ILS 504/Spr 09

I. Biography & Genealogy Master Index 1. The name of the Database producer The database is provided by Gale Group. 2. The title of the resource The resource is entitled Biography and Genealogy Master Index. 3. The types of biographical sources This database provides information from dictionaries, encyclopedias and the Whose Who series. 4. The date range of the resource This database covers the 19th to early 20th centuries. 5. An annotation for each database you list. This database began as an index in the 1970s. It includes such sources as Who's Who of American Women and National Cyclopedia to American Biography to Directory of American Scholars and American Black Writers.

II. Biography Index 1. The name of the Database producer The database is provided by OCLC. 2. The title of the resource The resource is entitled Biography Index. 3. The types of biographical sources This database provides information indexed from books, magazines and selected newspapers. 4. The date range of the resource This database covers the time period from 1984 to the present. 5. An annotation for each database you list.

This database includes interviews, obituaries, biographical novels, poetry, and juvenile literature, as well as current book-length and collective biographies.

III. Biography Resource Center 1. The name of the Database producer This database is provided by Gale Group. 2. The title of the resource The resource is entitled the Biography Resource Center. 3. The types of biographical sources It includes such resources as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, and Newsmakers, with full-text articles from nearly 300 periodicals. 4. The date range of the resource This resource covers a wide and undefined range of modern history. 5. A annotation for each database you list. The source includes more than 440,000 biographies and 27,000 images from 325 sources.

IV. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1. The name of the Database producer This database is produced by the United States Congress. 2. The title of the resource This resource is entitled Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-present. 3. The types of biographical sources It includes information on related research collections including personal and business papers and oral histories, as well as bibliographies from related publications.

4. The date range of the resource The resource covers the period from 1774 to the present. 5. A annotation for each database you list. The database includes biographical information on members of Congress, territorial delegates, resident commissioners, and U.S. Vice Presidents.

V. Contemporary Authors 1. The name of the Database producer This database is produced by the Gale Group. 2. The title of the resource The database is entitled Contemporary Authors. 3. The types of biographical sources This resource is part of the Literature Resource Center and has access to all of the database’s resources including books, newspapers and journals. 4. The date range of the resource The source covers contemporary modern history-5. A annotation for each database you list. 100,000 writers are covered and the resource includes over 10,000 bio-critical essays on authors as well.

VI. Dictionary of Canadian Biography 1. The name of the Database producer The database was put online by Library and Archives Canada; the data was originally produced by the University of Toronto and the Université Laval. 2. The title of the resource The source is entitled Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

3. The types of biographical sources The information is entirely derived from the print version of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 4. The date range of the resource The information available online covers the years from 10001930. 5. A annotation for each database you list. The first volume of the print version was begun in the 1960s and the most recent edition, volume XI (1921-1930), was printed in 2005.

VII. Internet Broadway Database 1. The name of the Database producer This database is produced by the Broadway League. 2. The title of the resource The resource is entitled the Internet Broadway Database. 3. The types of biographical sources The source for this database is the information gathered by the League over “many years.” The League began to organize the data in 1996 as it is now presented. 4. The date range of the resource The source cover from 1890s to the present. 5. A annotation for each database you list. The definitive source for play and musical theatre information, it includes number of performances, extensive credit information, theatres, characters, and more.