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.
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
RedLightGreen
This resource has been merged with Worldcat.org, above.
Contains approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials.
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.)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
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 County Library Homepage and the St. Louis County Library Catalog
The online catalog is available on the web. 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).
Maintained by the Missouri State Library. Does not provide links directly to the library catalogs.
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.
'A directory of libraries throughout the world,' maintained at Vanderbilt University.
Provides access to library homepages, web-accessible library catalogs, and more.
Web sites of U.S. colleges and universities.
Other specific library catalogs:
"Copac® is a union catalogue. It provides FREE access to the merged online catalogues of 24 major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland PLUS the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru."
British Library Public Catalogue
"We hold over 13 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 57 million patents, 3 million sound recordings, and so much more."
"The European Library is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced."
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.