You can find facts and statistics ("reference information" in library jargon) in the library's main floor Reference Collection, and in our electronic databases. Here are a few of the sources you may find helpful:

Consult dictionaries and thesauruses, identify famous quotations, view maps, illustrations, timelines, find information in general and specialized encyclopedias and bibliographies. ORO includes over 100 reference e-books and 50,000 signed articles with bibliographies.

Browse or search weekly background papers on social, political, and economic issues from 1991 to the present. Each study includes helpful bibliographies.

Look-up general articles, an introduction, commentary, and reflections on each book of the Bible. Reference Collection: BS491.2 .N484 1994

Read full-text biographies of prominent Americans who are now deceased. Continues and updates the Dictionary of American Biography, 1928-1985.
Reference Collection: E 176 .D56

Enter your ZIP code and identify your representatives in Congress. Retrieve unbiased information on federal and state elections: candidate biographies, positions on issues, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings.

Find over 200,000 poetry citations and more than 23,000 full text poems, plus commentaries, author biographies, and glossary

Browse or search for literary criticism by author, title, theme, genre, literary time period.

Search reviews of over 60,000 movie titles; includes discussion forums.

Consult three music dictionaries in one online source: Grove Music and Musicians, Grove Opera, and Grove Jazz.

Explore a classic taxonomic encyclopedia of animal life, updated with DNA research and written for English-speaking scientists. Based on the original published 1960, in German.

Learn about the habitats and ecosystems of more than 1,200 species identified as endangered or threatened by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service .

View questions and responses from over 14,000 public opinion surveys conducted by 1000 polling organizations in the U.S. and 100 other countries since 1986.

Find statistics from over 100 federal agencies.

Select an interesting library reference source and demonstrate it for your class or study group.