What are some places you can find details to build a biography on your Pioneer of Art Therapy?
URSearch- Search across many library resources at once for your Pioneer. Look for their writings and materials about them.
Catalog and OhioLINK catalog- search your pioneer as a subject search
Try a Subject search of your Pioneer in both the catalog and URSearch. A subject search means the materials returned have to be about that person.- see this example
Forewards in Books- Read the forewards of any books they have written. These are often written by the author and explain what he/she was working or or thinking about in their life when the book was written. The Foreword may also be written by a good friend of the Pioneer and contain details of their live.
Podcasts- Look for a podcast where the Pioneer was the guest speaker.
Vita- Look for the Pioneer's Vita. A vita is a long elaborate resume that details conferences, books, book chapters, seminars and more that the Pioneer has written or participated in.
Writing in College Publications- Find out where the Pioneer was educated. That university may have featured them in an alumni magazine or while they were a professor at that institution.
Video Recordings- Look at the library's streaming video collection and see if the Pioneer is featured. Also look at YouTube to see if the Pioneer was interviewed by another authentic source.
Duck Duck Go- Try using a different search engine other then Google. Duck Duck Go has been successful in finding pages that Google did not.
