Reference Resources: Library Catalogs

Association Of Research Libraries
Over 120 major libraries.
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British Library Public Catalog
Over 10 million items.
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European Library
A single search engine for 43 European national libraries.
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Lib-Web-Cats
A directory of libraries throughout the world.
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LibDex -- USA
U.S. Libraries
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National Union Catalog Of Manuscript Collections
The Library of Congress's index of manuscript collections in the U.S. (Texts of manuscripts not available electronically.)
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Oberlin Group Libraries
Libraries of liberal arts colleges.
W&L also maintains a search engine for finding information on these colleges' institutional Web sites, which may or may not include the library sites.
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Rockbridge Regional Library

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UNESCO Libraries Portal
Thousands of libraries around the world.
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USGS Library Catalog
The USGS online catalog contains over 325,000 records for materials that have been added to the library since 1975. All USGS publications produced since 1879 are in this catalog.
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VMI Preston Library

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Virginia Libraries Web Sites
Links to Web sites and online catalogs.
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WorldCat
A database consisting of the records of hundreds of library catalogs. WorldCat includes records and location information for about 1.3 billion books, theses and dissertations, video and sound recordings, and other materials. (Multiple records may exist for any one item.)
A free "quick-and-dirty" form of the database is available as WorldCat.org.
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