This is an example of the monthly edition of Current Biography with a picture of Picabo Street on the cover. The aim of Current Biography is "to provide reference librarians, students, and researchers with objective, accurate, and well documented biographical articles about living leaders in all fields of human accomplishments the world over."

Here is a picture of the cumulative annual edition. The MCTC library owns the complete set of Current Biography back to 1940. When attempting to locate an individual's biography we must consult the Current Biography index. Most annual volumes have an index which includes the current year and the preceding years back to the beginning of the decade. There is also a cumulative index for the set which includes the years 1940-1990.

The Gay & Lesbian Biography is one such specialized biography. The editors of the biography state that:

"It is possible to subdivide the subject in Gay & Lesbian Biography into two groups. The first are women and men who are acknowledged historical figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Marlowe, and Anne Lister, among others. By discussing the often complex sexual identities of these subjects, Gay & Lesbian Biography is attempting to shed new light on how we examine and understand the past. The second group of subjects are contemporary people who are living now, or have recently lived, as openly lesbian or gay, some of whom are active in a broad range of political and cultural activities that constitute the gay liberation movement: Audre Lorde, Roberta Achtenberg, Harry Hay, Essex Hemphill, to name only a few. These women and men have already made themselves visible, their lives and accomplishments established on the visible map of history." (p. ix)