Most of these databases can be accessed from home using your Glenview Public Library card number as username. A few are available only inside the library and are marked appropriately. Biography & History
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Biography Resource Center The Biography Resource Center combines biographies from over 130 sources such as Contemporary Authors, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Historic World Leaders, Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists, Contemporary Black Biography, Religious Leaders of America, International Dictionary of Art and Artists, and Writers Directory, with full-text biographical articles from more than 265 magazines. |
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Biography and Genealogy Master Index Biography and Genealogy Master Index indexes biographical dictionaries and who's whos, subject encyclopedias, and literary criticism. It also acts as an index to other indexes. BGMI indexes only reference works containing multiple biographies; it does not index periodical articles or books of biography about a single individual. |
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Facts.com - World Almanac Encyclopedia Facts On File Biographies of important personages both past and present. |
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History Study Center History Study Center provides digitized primary and secondary sources with documents and articles organized under widely-studied topics, with reference works, images, video clips and links to 2,000 Web sites. |
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Newsbank: America's Newspapers The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers including: the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Daily Herald, the Glenview Announcements, the New York Times, major metro Newspapers, and local newspapers throughout Illinois. |
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ReferenceUSA An online telephone directory database used for residential and business listings nationwide searchable by name, geographic location, yellow page heading, business size or sales volume. |
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Ancestry Library Edition (Available in library only) Genealogy and local history research: digitized images of the U.S. Federal Census from 1790 forward, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. |
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Heritage Quest Research materials for tracing family history and American culture for beginning or professional genealogists. |
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Chicago Tribune Archive Useful for finding obituaries and news stories from 1849-1984. |
(847)729-7500 ext. 111 for further information about these databases.
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