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HANDOUTS

    Library Essentials 

ACTIVITIES

Want books? Use:

ALAMO LIBRARY ONLINE CATALOG 

To find a biography of an individual person:  SUBJECT: <name> AND SUBJECT: biography (two separate search boxes)

To find biographies by occupation or discipline:   SUBJECT: <occupation> biography (e.g. SUBJECT: presidents biography)

To find biographical dictionaries:  SUBJECT: Biography Dictionaries

Many of our databases have biographies? Use:

ELECTRONIC DATABASES

• Biography Resource Center

• Encyclopedia Brittanica

• Academic Onefile   (Go to Advanced Search, select person and select document type: Biography) 

• Literary Reference Center (Find biographies of authors)

• Scribners Writers (Find biographies of authors)

   

INTERNET SITES

     Hotlinks - Helpful free websites in all subjects

• Internet Public Library - Biographies

• Biography.com (A&E)

SEARCH STRATEGIES

• Boolean - AND, OR, NOT
• Field searching - Subject, Author, Title
• Quotation marks for exact phrase
• Truncation - root + variants (*) 
• Database Limiters: date, publication type, type, peer-reviewed, etc.

OPTIONS FOR FULL-TEXT - Where is the actual article???

•  PDF or HTML in database
• A to Z Online Journal Locator
• IDB & ILL

NEED HELP? Contact Us!

Call: (210) 486-5388

Email: nlc-reference@alamo.edu

Library Instructor(s):  Laura Tull, Julie Nichols, Kristin Johnson, Linda Plevak