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| | AKL - World Biographical Dictionary of Artists. |
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| Contains brief biographical information on 275,000 painters, sculptors, architects, and graphic artists from all time periods and countries. Includes bibliographies. Information is drawn from three major art history dictionaries: Thieme-Becker (1907-1950), Vollmer (1953-1962), and Allgemeines Künsterlexikon (1991- ). In English and German. | | (1998 to present) Provides the full-text version of this important reference tool, which includes overviews of U.S. states and congressional districts as well as political profiles for each of the incumbent Senators, Representatives, and Governors. The Almanac also provides interest group ratings, U.S. Census data, key votes, campaign expenditures, election results, and other information. Part of The National Journal Group's Policy Central. | | Contains biographical information about more than 17,400 prominent American men and women from all periods of history. Excludes individuals who are still living. Also provides useful bibliographies as well as cross references and links to relevant Web sites. | | Contains biographical information on the more than 13,000 individuals who have served in the U.S. Congress (1789 to present) or in the Continental Congress (1774-1789). Also provides bibliographies and guides to research collections. | | | Biography & Genealogy Master Index. |
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| (1994 cumulation) An index to biographical entries appearing in a wide variety of reference works, such as Who's Who,, Contemporary Authors, and American Men & Women of Science. For more recent entries, consult a librarian. | | | Biography Reference Bank | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Indexes biographies of over 500,000 people from all time periods and countries; over 175,000 of the biographies are full text. Includes the full text of biographies from major reference works, such as The Grove Dictionary of Art, Current Biography, and The Dictionary of American Religious Biography, among others. Also includes Biography Index (1946-1983). | | | CQ Congress Collection | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| (1945 to present) Contains detailed legislative information and analyses as well as biographical information, electoral data, interest group ratings, and vote analysis for members of Congress. Also contains the Congressional Dictionary and the Congressional Encyclopedia. | | Contains the full text of 11 biographical reference titles, including the Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Debrett's, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, Hutchinson's Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and more.
You can also search the entire Credo Reference collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas. | | | Dictionary of National Biography. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| (1985 version). Includes biographical information about nearly 40,000 British men and women who died before 31 December 1985; covers all periods of history. Also includes biographies of people who lived in British colonies as well as other individuals who had a significant impact on British history. Contains the complete text of the first edition of the Dictionary of National Biography (1885-1900) as well as the full text of all supplementary volumes and Missing Persons volumes up to 1985.
The Little Library also has the second edition, known as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. | | Contains the fully-searchable text of a number of electronic reference books in the Davidson College Library's Gale Virtual Reference Library collection.
You can also search the entire Gale Virtual Reference Library collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas. | | Contains the full-text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed., with updates), with over over 29,000 articles about people, places, organizations, and terminology associated with the study of western classical, popular, and world music. Also provides links to sound files, image files, and related Web sites and includes The Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., the Oxford Companion to Music (2002), and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. rev. Updated monthly. | |  Literary Reference Center | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains full-text biographies, book reviews, critical essays, journal articles, and plot summaries as well as author interviews, selected reference works, and thousands of classic and contemporary poems, short stories, and other texts. | | | Literature Resource Center | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains full-text biographies, critical essays, journal articles, and excerpts of criticism and reviews about over 130,000 literary authors and their works; covers dramatists, essayists, novelists, poets, and other writers from all time periods.
Includes Contemporary Authors, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, and substantial portions of Gale's other literature criticism series, including the Scribner Writers Series. Also includes the Gale's Literary Index and the Encyclopedia of Literature. | | | Oxford Art Online | | Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff. |
| Contains the full text of -- and updates to -- Grove's Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (34 vols.; 1996- ), with over 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day. Also contains the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and over 5,000 images. Updated regularly. | | | World Authors. |
CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk.. |
| Biographical and critical information on major world writers. |
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Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston, Head of Library Instruction and Collection Development (704-894-2494).
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