The Famous and the Fictitious—Their Lives, Times, and Works

 

  This pathfinder will guide you as you search IMC resources for information about your famous person or fictitious character  You will be able to access information about their lives (biography), the historical background which influenced their work and their impact .

Books         eBooks        Databases         Websites        MLA Guide

Books--
The IMC has a large collection of books about musicians.
Conduct a Power Search for the name of the artist you are researching.  Most will be in the Biography section..

 

Jersey Cat-- Use Jersey Cat to order books from other libraries in the state.
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Ebooks-

 

Conduct a “power search” for your person by  typing his or her name in the search box. This will search the IMC's collection of eBooks from Gale Virtual Reference Library in addition to Discovering Collection and Custom Newspapers

E Books

Notable Sports Figures
American Decades
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
UXL American Decades

Databases –Click on the links to search for information about the musician and his or her times.

Biographies                                                         
American National Biography Online from Oxford University Press
Biography Collection Complete from Ebsco                                         
Biography Resource Center from Gale
Discovering Biography, which is part of the Discovering Collection from Gale 
Oxford Music Online from Oxford University Press
Oxford Art Online from Oxford University Press 
 Literary Reference Center from Ebsco
Literature Resource Center from Gale        

Historical Information
African American History from Facts on File                                                                                    
American History from ABC-CLIO
American History  from Facts on File
American Women's History from Facts on File
Daily Life Online from Greenwood
Daily Life Through History from Greenwood
Discovering Collection - History from Gale
History Reference Center from Ebsco
History Reference Online from ABC-Clio
History Resource Center-World  from Gale
History Resource Center-US from Gale
SIRS Decades from Proquest
Women's Studies Encyclopedia from Greenwood
World History:  Modern  from ABC-CLIO
World History from Facts on File

Magazines - all of the databases  provide magazine and newspaper articles, but these databases that have complete and  current full-text articles and are archived from 1987. 

MasterFile Premier from Ebsco (for magazine articles and pictures- Contains Rolling Stone and People, among others)
SIRS Researcher from Proquest

Newspapers
InfoTrac Custom Newspapers from Gale
Newspaper Source - from Ebsco
Proquest's Historical Newspapers (1860 to 1997)

Websites –

American Film Institute - 100 Movie Heroes and Villains
International Movie Database - use this to look up the archetype on television or the movies
Super Heroes - use the Warner Bros. site to locate heroes and villains from the Superman and Batman series
DC Comics - use this site to learn about the comic book heroes and villains
Disney characters - heroes and villains
Timeline - animated timelines - good source for events
 

                                        

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