2658 East Main Road | Portsmouth, RI | 02871 | (401) 683-9457 | Hours

Don't forget!  The library will be closing at 4 pm on Friday November 7 so that we can prepare our space for the restaurant vendors. 

The Taste of Portsmouth will begin at 7 pm.  Advance tickets are $40 per person; tickets sold at the door will be $50 per person.

Biography Databases

Rhode Island’s Statewide Reference Resource Center.

Biography Reference Bank is an essential full-text database for biographical research in any discipline, such as women’s studies, cultural studies, media studies and more.

A comprehensive collection of full-text biographies supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies, business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas. 

Full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, and more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures.

Comprehensive literary database, with a broad spectrum of reference information from antiquity to the present day. It combines information from over 1,000 books and monographs.