How-to

Biography Center

The Biography Center includes more than 10,000 biographies on curriculum topics, popular culture figures, and other people of interest. This is a great way to digitally expand a biography collection and stay up-to-date with current people of interest.


Users can access the Biography Center from the Student homepage, simply scroll and click More Biographies to open.

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Users can also access this from the side menu.

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Once inside, there are multiple ways to search.

  1. Today's Birthdates features biographies of individuals born that day.
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  2. Direct a search by typing a subject's name or job/achievement in the search box.
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  3. Refine results or browse biographies by selecting one or more of the available filter categories: area of work/interest, nationality/ethnicity, gender, or time period.
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  4. Or, browse biographies by collection.
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