Thank you to Lacey, Ryan, and Graham for all coming through and helping me re-find this website. Now that it is found I want EVERYONE to know about it:
Last year while I was searching for a very rare book at various libraries (if you want to know what book it was please ask me -totally hilarious story!) I ran across this website where you can type any book (or any kind of media) and your zipcode (actually the computer already knows your zipcode- scary!) into it's search bar and it will list every library in the COUNTRY (or even possibly the world -hence the name?) that has that book starting with the one that is closest to you. It will also tell you if the book is available, and you can set up an inter-library loan through the website (I may be mistaken about this last part).
I LOVE this website, and here it is: World Cat: http://www.worldcat.org/
Photo credit: http://www.artsjournal.com/bookdaddy/2008/07/
2 comments:
Hey Cathy! Just left a comment on your FB post, but thought I'd put it here as well so other readers can follow along. I did a Google search for "find any book in any library" and the first hit looks promising: http://www.worldcat.org/ Hope it helps! :)
Sounds like you want worldcat
WorldCat
http://www.worldcat.org
Instead of searching for a library, WorldCat lets you search for books, videos, articles, and music in more than 10,000 library catalogs from around the world. When you click on an item in your search, WorldCat senses your location (your IP address, really) and shows you the libraries closest to you with that item, often with links to that library's homepage. One warning: the catalog information may not be up-to-date, although some libraries now use WorldCat as their catalog.
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