INLS 111: INFORMATION RESOURCES AND
SERVICES I
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BIOGRAPHICAL
SOURCES EXERCISE
Objectives:
1.
Become familiar with a
range of significant biographical tools
through review and use.
2.
Gain some proficiency in
the use of these resources.
3.
To compare paper-based
and electronic versions of resources.
Directions:
Please
answer 10 of the following questions.
Give the answer to the question, a complete citation as to where you
found the information, and any other details about your search, e.g. where you
looked unsuccessfully, problems you found with a source. For many of these
questions you may find the answer in a number of sources. Please note discrepancies
between sources.
1.
How many different ways
is Bill Clinton’s name entered in Biography and Genealogy Master Index?
2.
Where can I find some
information about the writer, Bobbie Ann Mason, and who publishes most of her
work?
3.
When and where was
Michael Jordan born?
4.
Why isn’t Jimmy Carter
listed in the Dictionary of American Biography?
5.
I need to write a paper
about an ophthalmologist, but I don’t know the name of any famous ones. Where
should I look?
6.
What was the first
newspaper Jane Grey Swisshelm founded?
What issues did it discuss?
7.
What is Roland Rick
Perry’s real name? What does he do?
8.
Find at least five
sources that discuss the life of the Kurdish leader, General Mulla Mustafa
Barzani?
9.
Amanda Cross is the pseudonym
for what academic author?
10. Who shared the 1937 Nobel prize for physics with C.J.
Davisson? What is the title of Davisson’s co-winner’s first book?
11. What was financier and sportsman, John Hay Whitney’s
nickname?
12. I’m curious about who R.R. Bowker really is. You know, the guy who does Books in Print? I’d like to know his full name. I’ve also heard he’s into politics. What party?