Reference Databases
Thousands of magazines, newspapers, and reference books are available anywhere in the State of Maine through the online resources of MARVEL! Maine’s Virtual Library, a service of Maine InfoNet.
Contemporary Authors
A bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television and other fields.
Contemporary Literary Criticism Select
Critical and biographical essays on authors currently living or who died after 1959. CLC Select may be searched separately or simultaneously with Contemporary Authors and the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Scribner Writers
Scribner Writer”s Series includes 15-20 page signed essays on more than 1,600 authors and literary genres.
Twayne’s Author Series
Offers critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres.
3 handy quick look-up sites by & for librarians