The NeedleBar

LIBRARY SEARCH LINKS

Compiled by Jenny Sims

Below are several search engines located in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States which may prove useful in locating library copies of difficult-to-find and out-of-print books on sewing machine collecting.


UK & European Search Engines / US Search Engines


UK and Europe Library Search Engines

http://www.copac.ac.uk/copac/

COPAC

This is a university library seach engine. From here you can search the merged online catalogues of the largest research libraries in the UK and Ireland. Provides links to many other resources

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ac940/weblibs.html

UK Public Libraries

A list of UK public libraries on the web. Many have full searchable catalogues, for some a library ID for the County is required.

http://portico.bl.uk/gabriel/

Gabriel

Maintained by the British Library – a gateway to European national libraries Access to digital collections and online library catalogues

 


US Library Search Engines

http://catalog.loc.gov/

Library of Congress Online Catalogue

Access to digital collections including many sewing related prints and photographs

http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html#other

LOC

Gateway to library catalogues in the US and worldwide

http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/trade-literature/sewing-machines/browse-lists/

Smithsonian Collections

 


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