Big 10 University Libraries and the Center for Research Libraries: (CIC Virtual Electronic Library)
Library Catalogs of CIC ("Big Ten") Universities (Chicago, Illinois-Chicago, Illinois-Urbana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State Purdue, Wisconsin-Madison), and the Center for Research Libraries in Chicago. You can place your own loan request for an item online. We can usually obtain items on loan from the Big 10 within 2 weeks.

WorldCat: Allows you to search for the holdings (books / materials) of over 26,000 libraries, primarily in the U.S, and you can place your own loan request for an item online.

RLIN: Allows you to search for the holdings (books / materials) in major research libraries.

Center for Research Libraries: The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. Its outstanding collections include more than five million volumes of research materials rarely held in North American libraries.

Libweb: "[L]ists over 2700 pages from libraries in 70 countries." Contains public,school, and academic libraries. Courtesy of the Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE.

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