7. Biography
World Biographical Information System Index
WBI online contains over short biographical entries for prominent people past and present from Africa, Australia, Europe, New Zealand, North America, Oceana, and South America.
Indice Biográfico de Espana, Portugal e Iberoamerica. 3a edicion corregida y ampliada. = Indice biográfico de Espana, Portugal e Ibero-America = Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American biographical index = Spanischer, Portugiesischer und Iberoamerikanischer Biographischer Index. 3. ed., corr. y ampliada. Munchen: K.G. Saur, 2000.
Widener: RR 1776.12 print version. Library has: 10 v.
Biographical sketches of prominent personages. Citations can be located in the blue volumes, then one goes to the fiche cabinet arranged by country to find the corresponding fiche entry. Text in Spanish, English, French, German, and Portuguese.
This index is used with the microfiche set:
Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica hasta 2001 [microform] = Spanisches, portugiesisches und iberoamerikanisches biographisches Archiv bis 2001 / Editor, Victor Herrero Mediavilla. München; New York; London; Paris: Saur, 2002-.
Widener: Microfiche RR 19.4
Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica.. 1960- 1995 [microform] / ed., Victor Herrero Mediavilla. München: G.K. Saur, [1996]-1998.
Widener: Microfiche RR 19.2
**To locate other biographical materials and dictionaries in HOLLIS,
use:
Search type: Subject beginning with…
(separate terms with two hyphens, no spaces)
Latin America--Biography
Latin America--Biography--Dictionaries
Latin America--Biography (other subdivisions)
For individual countries:
Argentina--Biography (and other subdivisions)
etc.
