Psychology 485:
Leadership in Work Settings

BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

• Current Biography is an excellent source of 20th & 21st century biographical information and is available in the library in the reference collection at REF CT100.C81.
  Tip: Use the 1940-2000 index to locate articles in those volumes. Also, check the end of the article for a list of biographical information in other sources, like magazines and newspapers.
• American National Biography Online offers portraits of more than 17,000 men and women from all eras and walks of life "whose lives shaped the nation."
• Gale Virtual Reference Library searches the full-text of many reference sources at once, including Business Leader Profiles for Students and the Encyclopedia of World Biography.
• New York Times Historical (1851-2003) can be a good source of biographical information on anyone covered in the news.
  Tip: NYT obituaries provide a good summary of a person's life. Click More Search Options, and then change the document type to obituaries.
• ProQuest Direct can be a good source for contemporary biographical information.
  Tip: Use the Person search box.
• Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) lists reference books that include biographies of individuals. This is an index only. Full-text of the biographical articles is not included. BGMI indexes Current Biography (above).
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography offers biographies of noteworthy men and women who shaped Britain's past, from the fourth century BC to the year 2000
• African American Biographical Database, 1790-1950 provides biographies of leading African-Americans who lived and worked prior to 1950.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography covers authors from all genres and time periods.
• North American Women’s Letters and Diaries includes 1,500 biographies and 100,000 pages of published letters and diaries from individuals of all age groups and life stages, all ethnicities, many geographical regions, the famous and the not so famous, writing from Colonial times to 1950.
• The Morning Call is an excellent resource for biographical information about local people. A password is available in the library for full-text of archival articles from 1980 to the present.

BUSINESS SOURCES

• ABI/INFORM is the business database within the ProQuest family.
  TIP: Use the Person search box.

BOOKS

• The Cat is Penn State's online catalog. Use the I Want It button to order books from other campuses.
  Tip: Search for a person's name as a subject by changing "Keywords Anywhere" to "LC Subj Heading."
• WorldCat covers over 28 million books and other items in libraries across the country. Use it when you can't find books on a subject in The Cat. To order books online, click the title and then the Request Item via ILL link.
  Tip: Go to Advanced Search to search for the name as a subject.

For further information, please contact:

Judy Sandt - jsandt@psu.edu
Reference/Research Librarian
Penn State Lehigh Valley Library

last updated September 2007