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This will provide connections to the following library catalogs:

  • Yale's catalogs: Orbis and Morris
  • Special catalogs at Yale
  • Eureka
    The bibliographic database of the Research Libraries Group, with membership composed of about 150 major research libraries, archives, and museums in the United States, Canada, and -- increasingly -- the rest of the world as well. The database, numbering over 22 million records, is comprised of the cataloging records of these institutions created since the mid-1970s -- and for older materials as these institutions undertake retrospective conversion of their card catalogs -- for books, serials, maps, scores, records, visual materials, computer datafiles, and manuscript and archival material.
  • Other major online catalogs (e.g. Harvard, the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress)
  • Gateways to University research library catalogs in the United Kingdom and to the catalogs and online resources of the national libraries of Europe.

Bodleian Library (University of Oxford)
The British Library catalogs
This site provides access to and descriptions of the various catalogs of the British Library:
  • The British Library Public Catalogue (BLPC)
  • The Manuscripts Catalogue
  • The Newspaper Library Web Catalogue
  • The National Sound Archive Catalog
  • The Current Serials File
Earlier printed catalogs include:
  • British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books. General catalogue of printed books...to 1955. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1959-1966. 263v.
    SML, Main Reference Room Z921 +B86 (LC) Supplements: 1956/65 (50v.); 1966/70 (26v.); 1971/75 (13v.)
  • British Library. General catalogue of printed books 1976-1985 [microform]. London: British Library, 1986. 402 microfiche
    Main Reference Room Fiche B1221
  • British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books. Subject index of the modern works added to the library of the British Museum, 1881/1900-[1956/60]. London: 1902- . 30v.
    SML, Main Reference Room Z1035 +B75 (LC)
COPAC: the Consortium of University Research Libraries catalog (U.K. and Ireland)
COPAC is the merged catalog of members of the Consortium of University Research Libraries.
Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library. Catalogue of the Colonial Office Library, London. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1964. 15v. plus supplement (1v.)
SML, Main Reference Room Z921 +L388 (LC)
In 1968 the Library was merged with the Foreign Office Library; the 2nd and 3rd supplements reflect the merger.
-----. Commonwealth Relations Office. India Office Library. Catalog of European printed books. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1964. 10v.
SML, Main Reference Room Z3209 +I53 1964
-----. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Library. Foreign and commonwealth office, accessions to the library, May 1971-June 1977. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979. 4v.
SML, Main Reference Room Z921 G66 +G73 1979 (LC)
Accessions prior to May 1971 are found in The catalogue of the Foreign Office Library (see next entry), and the Commonwealth Relations Office Catalogue of European Printed books (see previous entry).
-----. Foreign Office. Library. Catalogue of printed books in the library of the Foreign Office. London: H.M.S.O., 1926
SML, Main Reference Room Z921 +G713 1926 (LC)
  • Supplemented by:
    -----. -----. -----. Catalogue of the Foreign Office Library, 1926-1968. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1972. 8v.
    SML, Main Reference Room Z921 +G682 1972 (LC)
National Library of Wales: Catalogues and Online Resources
This site provides catalogs for searching for printed books, framed works of art, maps, and dissertations held by the National Library of Wales.
Rothschild, Nathaniel Mayer Victor. The Rothschild Library : a catalogue of the collection of eighteenth-century printed books and manuscripts. Cambridge, England: Privately Printed at the University Press, 1954.
SML, Main Reference Room Z997 R85 (LC)

 

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