Online catalogs for Other LibrariesOnline catalogs for Other Libraries

Online Catalogs for Other Libraries 

WorldCat - a part of OCLC First Search, accessed through the Library Databases page.

WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and is the most comprehensive and up-to-date bibliographic resource available.  WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and around the world - more than 57,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories.

Library of Congress Online

"The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections."

Access PA Database > Search the Database

This project of the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, was started in 1985 as a way to provide a union catalog across the State of Pennsylvania. It was the first and remains the largest statewide union catalog and includes the holdings of all types of libraries: public, school, academic and special libraries.  You can search the entire state or by a single county and by type of library.

LibDex - The Library Index

Libdex is a worldwide directory of Library homepages and web-based online catalogs.

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts).  All books in the database are in the public domain.  This means that were generally published pre-1923 and are therefore no longer covered by copyright.  This is a good place to look for the classics, "from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others."

CIC (Big Ten) Libraries

Founded in 1958, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is an academic consortium consisting of the Big Ten (now Eleven) institutions and the University of Chicago and University of Illinois at Chicago.

• Indiana University Libraries
• Michigan State University Libraries
• Northwestern University Library
• Ohio State University Libraries
• Pennsylvania State University Libraries
• Purdue University Libraries
• University of Chicago Library
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
• University of Illinois at Chicago Library
• University of Iowa Libraries
• University of Michigan Library
• University of Minnesota Libraries
• University of Wisconsin - Madison