Finding books
To find books, use Quest, and limit your search to books (to exclude things like articles or DVDs).
If you know which biography you want
Type the title of the biography in the Quest search box.
If you don't see the book immediately, try another search with the title in quotation marks, and with the author's name added.
For example, to find the book Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Frasier, you'd type this:
If UMW doesn't have the biography you want, you can have it sent to UMW from another library, for free, using Interlibrary Loan.
If you want to find all biographies of a given person
Go to the Quest Advanced Search page, and search for the person's name as a Subject. Enter the name like this: "Lastname, Firstname."
For example, to find biographies of Laura Ingalls Wilder, you'd type this:
This will find all the biographies of Laura Ingalls Wilder that UMW owns.
To find biographies at other libraries, use WorldCat. You can have books sent to UMW from other libraries, for free, using Interlibrary Loan.