(Learning About a Person’s Life)

    GIL, the SGC Library’s online catalog will tell you if this library owns a book about your subject. Even if there is not a whole book devoted to the person, they may be included in another book here. Choose to search GIL by subject and put the person’s last name first, for example, gates, bill. If a subject search returns "no hits," try a keyword search with the name in quotation marks, for example, "gordeeva, ekaterina". Run your search online and look at the bottom of a book’s record to locate a call number, then go to the shelf to retrieve the book(s) indexed in GIL.

    Remember, interlibrary loan (ILL) is a free service available to SGC students, to borrow a book from another library if SGC does not own it and if you can allow about a week’s lead time. Ask any staff member in the Reference Area for help with ILL.

    On the SGC Library home page under "Local Resources," be sure to search resources to which the SGC Library leases access on campus (they are not available off-campus and are separate from GALILEO’s research databases):

• CURRENT BIOGRAPHY ILLUSTRATED 1940-PRESENT
  Contains the full text of the 23,000 biographies and obituaries that have appeared in Current Biography Yearbook since 1940. So Meg Ryan is here as a contemporary actress, and so is William Faulkner, who died in 1962. Articles that have not appeared in the print editions are also in this database. Many have photos of the person profiled. Profiling artists, politicians, businesspeople, journalists, actors, writers, sports figures, scientists, and other people prominent in the news, the Current Biography articles are supplemented with recent citations from Biography Index.

• DISCOVERING BIOGRAPHY
  Your source for information on 2,000 of the most frequently studied individuals from ancient times to the present. Included are personalities from all areas of the world and fields of endeavor. The basic Biography contains: Brief description; Personal background data (i.e., birth and death dates, occupations, awards received); Portrait; Full-text biography; Selected works; and Additional sources of information. In the results list, look for the icon that looks like Shakespeare’s head to mark biographical articles, rather than timelines or other references.

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