Library Catalogs
WorldCat
These databases contain information about more than 50 million
books, periodicals, recordings, scores, archival collections, and
other kinds of material held in major research institutions, public,
and national libraries both domestic and foreign.
RedLightGreen
This is a catalog of research level material that also allows users to check the availability of material in specific libraries, and to create citations in four "styles," e.g. Chicago, MLA...
It searchs millions of records in the Research Libraries Group (RLG) Union Catalog to put the most widely held, most relevant items near the top of any search results list.
Borrow
Direct
Borrow Direct allows faculty, students and staff at Dartmouth College
to directly request books from the combined library catalogs of
Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, the University
of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University.
The British Library
The British Library now makes online access available to several
of its collections.
- The British
Library Public Catalogue (BLPC) is available free via
the Web. BLPC contains details of over 10 million books and other
material covering every aspect of human thought from 1450 to the
present day.
- The
Manuscripts Online Catalogue is based on the traditional
cataloguing of the Department of Manuscripts and aims to cover
all western manuscript accessions from 1753 to date. Work, however,
is still in progress and there are some significant gaps. See
the catalogue itself for more information.
- The
Newspaper Library Web Catalogue includes entries for over
50,000 newspaper and periodical titles from all over the world,
dating from the 17th to the 21st century, held by the British
Library Newspaper Library at Colindale in north west London. Catalogue
entries contain full details of the title (including any title
changes), the place of publication (the town or city and the country),
and the dates which are held, and the catalogue may be searched
by entering a keyword or a combination of keywords.
- Current
Serials File allows you to search the DSC's Current Serials
Received file. This file contains the titles of over 60,000 serials
currently received by the British Library Document Supply Centre
(BLDSC) and Science Technology & Business (STB).
LIBWEB:
Library servers via the Web.
Currently lists over 3000 pages from libraries in over 90 countries.
UK Higher
Education and Research Libraries.
Curently lists over 140 libraries and information services within
the UK. NOTE: the online catalogs of UK libraries may be incomplete.
The OLIS catalog at Oxford University, for example, contains references
to "only" 5 million of the 10 million volumes in the Oxford libraries.
British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books. General catalogue
of printed books. Photolithographic edition to 1955.
London, Trustee of the British Museum. 1959-66 [v.1, 1965]
Baker/Berry Reference Z/921/B88
Library has v.1-263
British Library. Dept. of Printed Books. General catalogue
of printed books. Photolithographic edition to 1955; Supplement.
London, Trustees of the British Museum.
Baker/Berry Reference Z/921/B88/Suppl
Library has 1968-1971/75
The National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints: a
cumulative author list representing Library of Congress printed
cards and titles reported by other Congress and the National Union
Catalog Subcommittee of the Resources Committee of the Resources
and Technical Services Division, American Library Association.
London, Mansell, 1968-
Baker/Berry Reference Z/881/A1/U365l
National Union catalog. Register of additional locations.
Washington : Library of Congress.
Related Titles: Supplements the national Union catalog by recording
locations reported after the pertinent post-1955 imprints have been
published in the catalog. National Union catalog 0028-0348.
Baker/Berry Reference Z/881/A1/U35REGISTER Library has 1963/67-1968/72
Baker/Berry Reference, Microfiche 1549f
Latest issue received: 1996 Library has 1968- to date
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