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From: "V. Chris and Tom Tinney, Sr." <>
Subject: The Open WorldCat Program and Interlibrary Loan: Education Publicationsand Online Books - Indexers and Genealogists
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:28:11 -0700
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wrote:

> Is there any way to look up a book title to find out what libraries
> hold it? I am thinking mainly of US libraries. I know librarians can,
> or were able to a few years ago, but I wondered if something like that
> is available online to the private sector.
>
> Mardi
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The Open WorldCat Program and Interlibrary Loan:
Education Publications and Online Books -
Indexers and Genealogists

"The Open WorldCat program makes records
of library-owned materials in OCLC's WorldCat
database available to Web users on popular
Internet search, bibliographic and bookselling
sites. . . . In the fall of 2004, the Open
WorldCat collection was expanded to include
information about all WorldCat records."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC

"A special version of the Yahoo! Toolbar
provides an ever-present browser pane
with links to Yahoo! services and input
box for direct search of WorldCat libraries."
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/default.htm

"Are you a library user? Install the Toolbar
on your home computer and search for materials
no matter where you are on the Web!"
http://www.oclc.org/toolbar/default.htm
"Have a question about Yahoo! Toolbar?"
http://help.yahoo.com/help/toolbar/

"Search from anywhere on the Web",
has the caveat: "* OCLC member library
authorization may be required". Information
for the amateur to professional researcher,
including the Library of Congress, Harvard,
public, private, college, local, university,
international, worldwide library links and
classification systems, is found at:
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/librariesmuseums.htm

"Open WorldCat points more people—even
those who don't typically visit libraries—
to library collections as a first source
of information. It promotes the value
of libraries on a scale greater than
any library or group could achieve alone."
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/open/default.htm

"Excited by the 'resounding success' of
the Open WorldCat pilot program, the management
of OCLC, the world’s largest library vendor,
has decided to open the entire collection of
53.3 million items connected to 928.6 million
library holdings for 'harvesting' by Google
and Yahoo! Search." . . . "Open WorldCat
. . . largest bibliographic database in
the world with an incredible amount of
information on material and [with] its
location now made available to users
all over the world. It brings people
to the record of human achievement,
culture, and research contained in
print collections of libraries
around the world. . . . As Alford said,
'It must increase interlibrary loan as
people start to understand what is
available in public and university
libraries. It will absolutely increase
direct borrowing and interlibrary loan.'
. . . "
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041011-2.shtml

Education Publications and Online Books
has been recently updated to include
the current status of online book
resources, at:
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/bookspublicationsgenealogical.htm#Edpub

In particular, it may be of interest
to some members of this group to compare:
(1) The current Google Print search of
the full text of books;
(2) The newly created Open Content Alliance
group from around the world, that will help
build a permanent archive of multilingual
digitized text and multimedia content;
(3) The "i2010: Digital Libraries" project,
making European information resources available
in an on-line environment (Digital Libraries -
Europa);
(4) The Digitized Texts Online at
the Internet Archive, with various
Sub-Collections;
(5) Other various sites, genealogical
and otherwise, linking or containing Digital
Books; as well as making comparison with
6) Indexers and Genealogists sources, at:
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/documentationpublications.htm#Indexers

Respectfully yours,

Tom Tinney, Sr.
Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition [54th] - 2004
Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, {both editions]
Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/

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