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Additional Library Catalogs

Center for the Humanities Library

'The CH Library currently houses collections of fiction, poetry, and criticism, with a special focus on international and faculty authors.' While the Center for the Humanities is part of Washington University, this library is separate from the Washington University Libraries.

Office of Student Activities Resource Library

Offers resources related to leadership, cultural and social issues, teambuilding activities, and training. The Resource library is located in DUC Room 257 in the Student Activities suite of the Danforth University Center.

Washington University Social Justice Center Lending Library

The Social Justice Center Lending Library provides books, movies, and periodicals on various social justice and diversity issues. The items are free to check-out for any Washington University student, staff or faculty member. While the Social Justice Center is part of Washington University, this library is separate from the Washington University Libraries.

Worldcat.org (Find in a Library) or WorldCat (via FirstSearch)

Bibliographic information for books, journal titles, videos, and other materials cataloged by thousands of U.S. and foreign libraries. More info

U. S. Library of Congress

Contains approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials.

Center for Research Libraries

Washington University is a member of the Center, and thus has ready access via Interlibrary Loan to the materials owned by the Center. Request materials found in this database via Interlibrary Loan. If you wish to find out more about the type of materials that CRL collects, please connect to the CRL Quick Search.

Selected Missouri Libraries:

More info about local libraries (directions, maps, etc.)

MOBIUS Union Catalog

Contains all the holdings in the MERLIN catalog, below, plus the holdings in the Washington University online catalog and an increasing number of other academic library catalogs in Missouri. Please note that the WU online catalog contains the holdings of all the libraries at Washington University, except the Bernard Becker Medical Library, which has its own Becker Catalog. Please note: WU students, faculty, and staff have borrowing privileges at Saint Louis University and the University of Missouri-Saint Louis, as well as other MOBIUS libraries.

MERLIN (Missouri Education & Research Libraries Information Network)

Library catalog for the University of Missouri (Columbia, Columbia Law, Kansas City, Kansas City Law, Rolla, St. Louis, Archives and WHMC).

St. Louis University Library Catalog (Pius, Law, Health Sciences Center)

Fontbonne University Library Catalog

Linda Hall Library Homepage

The online catalog includes holdings of Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Engineering Societies Library, and the Spencer Art Reference Library of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

St. Louis Research Libraries Consortium (SLRLC)

Includes the libraries of the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Missouri Historical Society, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.

Missouri Botanical Garden Library

Missouri Institute of Mental Health in St. Louis

St. Louis College of Pharmacy

St. Louis County Library Catalog

St. Louis Public Library

Choose Library Search (Catalog) on the Library circle on the homepage.

University City Public Library

Webster University Library and its catalog

Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the St. Louis Area

Prepared by the Association of St. Louis Area Archivists (ASLAA).

Missouri Online Library List

Maintained by the Missouri State Library. Does not provide links directly to the library catalogs, but does have links to library websites.

Use the following resources to locate library catalogs in other states and countries:

Libweb (U.S. and Foreign Libraries on the World Wide Web)

Includes links to the websites of college and university libraries, schools of library science, library organizations such as the Association of Research Libraries, and library-related companies such as OCLC.

lib-web-cats

'A directory of libraries throughout the world,' maintained at Vanderbilt University.

Libdex

Provides access to library homepages, web-accessible library catalogs, and more.

College Locator

Web sites of U.S. colleges and universities.

Other specific library catalogs:

COPAC

"The CopacŪ library catalogue gives free access to the merged online catalogues of major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library."

British Library Public Catalogue

"We hold 14 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 58 million patents, 3 million sound recordings, and so much more."

The European Library

"The European Library is a free service that offers access to the resources of the 48 national libraries of Europe in 32 languages. Resources can be both digital or bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.)."

Search several Libraries' Catalogs at the same time

Options include Library of Congress, WU, Linda Hall (Kansas City), National Agricultural, Kew Gardens, New York Botanical Garden, American Museum of Natural History, and others; this search is made available by the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.