Biography

Biographical information about notable people from all time periods and areas of study. Includes entries from hundreds of reference sources, including:

• Contemporary Black Biography
• Contemporary Musicians
• Encyclopedia of World Biography
• Newsmakers
• Writer's Directory

SPPL card required to access. No library card needed for access at the library.

Not available on catalog computers.
If you are at the library, please use a public internet computer or a computer connected to the library's Wi-Fi network.

Reliable information from magazines, encyclopedias, and dictionaries on a wide range of subjects including art and music, literature. language arts, geography, history, social studies, world cultures and languages, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, health, and sports.

Middle and High school-appropriate. Includes Middle Search Plus, MAS Ultra - School Edition, Consumer Health Complete, Health Source - Consumer Edition, and Science Reference Center databases. (EBSCO)

Video: Introduction to Explora

Encyclopedia, magazine, and journal articles, plus primary sources, images, video, and more for middle and high school students. (Gale)

At the library:

Access High School (Gale In Context) here, no library card needed.

Covers novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, writers, and their works. Includes:

• Contemporary Authors
• Contemporary Literary Criticism
• Dictionary of Literary Biography

Not available on catalog computers.
Literature Resource Center does not work on the library's catalog computers. If you are at the library, please use a public internet computer or a computer connected to the library's Wi-Fi network. At-home access requires a library card to log in.

Designed specifically for high school libraries, MAS Complete is a full-text database providing hundreds of popular high school magazines and reference books. Covering subjects such art, history, sports and music, it also includes thousands of biographies and primary source documents, plus over a million photos, maps and flags.