Wednesday, April 16, 2008

WorldCat...the catalog for the entire WORLD!! (O_o)

WorldCat is a fairly comprehensive catalog of library collections around the world. I began by searching for a book called, "Calvin Wan's drifting performance handbook". The results were pretty astonishing to me because I have never used WorldCat before and when I put in my zipcode, almost instantly, the closest libraries that carried that title were displayed from closest for farthest. In the Details tab are the specifics about the book such as size, number of pages, and summary of the contents.

WorldCat can help with filling out the ILL form to an extent but I believe amazon.com is perfect for that and gives the maximum information you would need to completely fill out that form.

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