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CD-ROMS and Web based databases

Biography and Genealogy Master IndexAvailable only to the MTSU community
For more than twenty years, Biography and Genealogy Master Index (BGMI) has been the best place to begin a search for information about people. It indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.

Discovering Most-Studied Authors Off-campus access now available (login required). Specially excerpted from DISCovering Authors Modules, DISCovering Most-Studied Authors provides comprehensive bio-bibliographical and critical information on 380 of the most-studied authors in North American curricula. Representing a wide variety of nations, cultures, time periods, and genres, the database includes entries on such authors as Muhammad, William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, and Maya Angelou. Funded by the Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL). Continued availability depends on continued funding.

Gale Literary Resource CenterAvailable only to the MTSU community
Electronic access to biographical and critical information from the journals and the following publications: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Scribner Writer Series

MLA BibliographyAvailable only at the EIC in the Library
Library location: Electronic Information Center Indexes over 3000 scholarly journals and series as well as relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, etc. Subjects covered include literature, language, linguistics and folklore.

Literary Index Available only at the EIC in the Library
Library location: Electronic Information Center Gale's Literary Index is a master index to over 675 volumes of biographical information about authors and critical essays on their works. Most of these volumes are in Todd Library.

Books in the Reference Collection

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 928.1 C76a
Contemporary authors autobiography series. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., c1984-

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 928 D56
Dictionary of literary biography. Detroit : Gale Research, 1978-

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 809.04 C76
Contemporary literary criticism. CLC 1- 1973- . Detroit, Gale Research Co.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 809.04 T91
Twentieth-century literary criticism : excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers, 1900-1960 / Dedria Bryfonski, Phyllis Carmel Mendelson, editors. Detroit : Gale Research [1978]-

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 700.8996 So8a
African-American traditions in song, sermon, tale, and dance, 1600s-1920 : an annotated bibliography of literature, collections, and artworks / compiled by Eileen Southern and Josephine Wright. New York : Greenwood Press, 1990.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 928 Af83s
African American writers / Valerie Smith, consulting editor ; Lea Baechler, A. Walton Litz, general editors. New York : C. Scribner's Sons ; Toronto : Collier Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 810.992 P33a
American ethnic literatures : native American, African American, Chicano/Latino, and Asian American writers and their backgrounds : an annotated bibliography / David R. Peck. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c1992.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 016.8 Am3 v.23
Black African literature in English : a guide to information sources / Bernth Lindfors. Detroit : Gale Research Co., c1979.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 809 B56
Black literature criticism : excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of Black authors over the past 200 years / James P. Draper, editor. Detroit : Gale Research, c1992.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 011.62 R65b
Black authors and illustrators of children's books : a biographical dictionary / by Barbara Rollock. New York : Garland, 1988.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 920.0092 P44e
Early Black American playwrights and dramatic writers : a biographical directory and catalog of plays, films, and broadcasting scripts / Bernard L. Peterson, Jr. New York : Greenwood Press, 1990.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 928.703 R72h
Harlem Renaissance and beyond : literary biographies of 100 Black women writers, 1900-1945 / Lorraine Elena Roses, Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1990.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 811.008 C36in
Index to poetry by Black American women / compiled by Dorothy Hilton Chapman. New York : Greenwood Press, 1986.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 810.9896 M39
Masterpieces of African-American literature / edited by Frank N. Magill. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins, c1992.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 810.9896 M27a
Masterplots II. African American literature series / edited by Frank N. Magill. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c1994.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 810.80896 Ox2 1997
The Oxford companion to African American literature / editors, William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, Trudier Harris ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 810.809 Y38p 1991
The pen is ours : a listing of writings by and about African-American women before 1910 with secondary bibliography to the present / compiled by Jean Fagan Yellin, Cynthia D. Bond. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

REFERENCE (MAIN FLOOR) 927 H35t
Twentieth-century African-American writers and artists / Chester M. Hedgepeth, Jr. Chicago : American Library Association, 1991.

Microtext Collections

MICROFICHE (SECOND FLOOR) 117
New challenge [microform] Westport, Conn. : Negro Universities Press, 1970.

A Guide to Microtext Collections at MTSU
Microtext collections at MTSU by and about African Americans.

Black Newspapers
A Collection of Black newspapers available in the MTSU Library.