Incoming Resources
- Mobituaries, great lives worth reliving, Mo Rocca and Jonathan Greenberg ; illustrations by Mitch Butler
- Explorers & discoverers, from Alexander the Great to Sally Ride, Peggy Saari, Daniel B. Baker
- Current biography yearbook 2011
- Remembrances and celebrations, a book of eulogies, elegies, letters of condolence, and epitaphs, edited by Jill Werman Harris
- Random House famous name finder, concise biographies of over 10,000 legendary people, Coral Amende
- Young, gifted and black, meet 52 black heroes from past and present, words by Jamia Wilson ; illustrated by Andrea Pippins
- Autobiography, Lawrence Kappel, book editor
- The Riverside dictionary of biography
- Cambridge biographical dictionary, general editor, Magnus Magnusson, assistant editor, Rosemary Goring
- The encyclopedia of sixties cool, a celebration of the grooviest people, events, and artifacts of the 1960s, Chris Strodder ; foreword by Michelle Phillips
- Courage, eight portraits, Gordon Brown
- Edison's ghosts, the untold weirdness of history's greatest geniuses, Katie Spalding
- Heroes and pioneers
- Power brokers, kingmakers and usurpers throughout history, Rupert O. Matthews
- To our children's children, preserving family histories for generations to come, Bob Greene and D.G. Fulford
- The book of eulogies, a collection of memorial tributes, poetry, essays, and letters of condolence, edited with commentary by Phyllis Theroux
- Heroes, Lucy Hughes-Hallett
- Overlooked, a celebration of remarkable, underappreciated people who broke the rules and changed the world, Amisha Padnani and the Obituaries Desk at The New York Times
- Biography today, profiles of people of interest to young readers: 2008 annual cumulation, Cherie D. Abbey, managing editor