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Worldcat mentions (64)

• Happy Dewey Decimal System Day! 🥂🎉🗃️

  Look up editions and search for books within a given subject https://worldcat.org/. Source: 5 months ago

• Question regarding interlibrary loans

  If you're in the US, you can look up the book in Worldcat (https://search.worldcat.org/) to get a sense of what libraries actually hold the books you are looking for. When US libraries are doing ILL, they are often using a backend system that is working with the information in that catalog. Source: 5 months ago

• How to Find Children's Books in Foreign Languages?

  Also check out worldcat.org . Type in a title, look for 'View All Formats and Editions' in the lower right of a listing. You can see if the book is offered in your choice of language or format. Click to go deeper into a specific offering and reveal all the details. Now you can get a ISBN number and can search the internet with that number. Source: 8 months ago

• Controversial porn books in US middle schools

  I think worldcat.org has a database that can tell you some school libraries that have a book. Source: 10 months ago

• Recommendations for Books about Singapore w/Contrarian Views?

  Your future, my faith, our freedom: A democratic blueprint for Singapore by Chee Soon Juan. This book was published around 2000 and talks about the many issues with CPF, public housing, the overdependence on MNC in our economy, foreign talent, Singapore education, etc. It is hard to get hold of this book because it has been out of print for many years but you can find it in the NUS library. It is a brilliant and... Source: 10 months ago

Open Library mentions (263)

• MLIS books available digitally?

  Check out https://openlibrary.org. You can search ´library science’, librarian’, etc, and something should come up. Just select the ‘ebooks’ option to search for items within the collection. And you can narrow the search by subject, etc. Source: 5 months ago

• NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month

  Right now I'm in the middle of the chicken and the egg problem where we don't have enough authors cataloging their publications and b/c of that obviously readers are not interested in using the site. I've gone back and forth with taking Open Libray's [0] catalog as that would at least flesh out our collection of books but then I'd have to deal with verifying authors to accounts so they can access their books.... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• is there any way to read books for free?

  Here's one: https://openlibrary.org/. Source: 6 months ago

• YSK: You can access many old and out of print hiking books from the Internet Archive's Open Library

  The Internet Archive runs what they call the Open Library, which is a unique concept on the traditional library. You can sign-up with minimal details and digitally check out many scanned books from libraries all over the world. The only caveat is that almost all of the books are older editions - ones that would be impossible to find locally. It's great if you're looking for old routes, a look back in time, details... Source: 7 months ago

• Searching for a pharmacy book

  I want to clarify that I'm a non-US citizen, so accessing physical copies from US libraries or buying it from Amazon might not be feasible for me. To give you some context, my personal research was guided by the wiki section of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH (https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/reading/). I've conducted research using various online resources, including the Ebook & Open Source/Access Libraries... Source: 7 months ago