<p>Getting to know the famous and the infamous: How to select a biography or an autobiography at the Van Wagenen Library</p><p>What is a BIOGRAPHY? It is a written account of another person’s life. What is an AUTOBIOGRAPHY? It is a history of a person’s life, written or told, by that person. Source: The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition.</p><p>In order to locate an individual you would like to know more about, use the following tools:</p><p>Current Biography (REF CT100 .C8 1940-2001) Encyclopedia of American Biography (REF CT213 .E53 1995) Dictionary of Science Biography (REF Q141 D5 v1-18) OR On the library’s homepage, select Online Reference Tools, scroll down to Lives: The Biography Resource</p><p>Select 2 or 3 names you are interested in; go to the library’s electronic catalog (multiLIS) to determine if our library owns a book by (autobiography) or about (biography) that individual. Once you have been successful in locating a book in our library, go upstairs to the stacks, locate the book, check it out and read it.</p><p>Whether your required writing style is APA or MLA you can find appropriate citation information by using Keys for Writers, asking for help from a Reference Librarian or checking the Library’s HomePage (Resource Guide for Students).</p><p>Attach a photocopy of the title page of the book to your report.</p><p>A 5-page report on the book is due on ______.</p>