March 23, 2007

On Beyond WorldCat . . .

Some free websites for searching holdings of libraries not (in most cases) in WorldCat or RLIN. I use the UK, Canadian, and Australian sites frequently (the others not so much) and thought it would be useful to have these quickly findable here. (Susan -- feel free to make bookmarks for any you wish as well..) / Denny


All: Thanks for listing these links, Denny. I have just added all of these links at the end of the National Bibliographies page, under Z. Other Library Catalogs for Various Countries.

P.S. Regarding the National Bibliographies page: Libraries->Catalogs->National->National Bibliographies page or go directly to :
http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/biblio.phtml
Shane recently arranged to put the National Bibliographies list on the CATALOGS page of LUMINA rather than have it buried on the Wilson/Reference/guides/etc page. That means that any library staff member can now simply set the resource type to CATALOGS (on the authoring page) and add (or edit, on existing entries) the BASE INFORMATION TYPE to NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES on the individual EDIT RESOURCE page.
--Susan

COPAC -- holdings of 24 major research libraries in UK and Ireland

http://copac.ac.uk/wzgw

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Serials Union Catalogue -- serials held in UK libraries

http://www.suncat.ac.uk/


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AMICUS -- holdings of 1300 Canadian libraries

http://amicus.collectionscanada.ca/aaweb/aalogine.htm

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LIBRARIES AUSTRALIA -- holdings of 850 Australian libraries

http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au/apps/kss

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THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY -- cross-searching of catalogs of national libraries of Europe

http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html


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LANIC -- links to South American library catalogs

http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/library/

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LIBDEX -- links to libraries worldwide, by country

http://www.libdex.com/country.html

see also

IFLANET

http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p2/national-libraries.htm

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