Primary Publishing Libraries & History of the Book Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

BorrowDirect+
Also Known as: Borrow Direct EZBorrow
Search BorrowDirect, a combined catalog of the holdings of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Penn, Princeton, the University of Chicago, Yale, and the Center for Resear...   [more]
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RLIN (RLG Union Catalog)
Union catalog of the Research Libraries Group Members....   [more]
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    direct URL
    RLG Member List

Worldcat - OCLC Firstsearch Union Catalog
Books and other materials held by OCLC Member Libraries. **8 SIMULTANEOUS USER LIMIT*...   [more]

Primary Publishing Libraries & History of the Book Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

Center for Research Libraries
Also Known as: CRL CAMP LAMP MEMP SAMP
The Penn Library participates in CRL's area studies programs. A consortium of North American universities, colleges, and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves tradition...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    CRL Catalog
    CRL Quick Search Page / General Overview
    CRL Area Studies Programs - CAMP, LAMP, MEMP, SAMP
    CRL Catalog: Newspapers search
    South Asia Microform Project - SAMP

Pennsylvania Libraries Directory
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Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16)
Includes over 115,000 16th century imprints. Requires downloading of a plug-in (link from the VD 16 site)....   [more]
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Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts (VD17)
A comprehensive database of German-language publications from the period 1601-1700, as well as books in other languages if they were published in German-speaking Europe....   [more]
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Important Publishing Libraries & History of the Book Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

Bookplates ~ David Ellenson Rare Book Online Exhibit
The invention of printing made private ownership of many books possible. Frequently, owners identified their personal collections with labels which read ex libris ("from the library of"). Artists were...   [more]
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die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (German National Library catalogs)
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Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (Union Catalogue of Incunabula)
Also Known as: GW
Requires downloading of ICA web client software. Further information available on the website. "This database appears in conjunction with the print edition of the Union Catalogue of Incunabula (GW)...   [more]
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Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections
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Penn in Hand: Selected Manuscripts
Also Known as: Penn Libraries Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania holds approximately 800 western European manuscripts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. ...   [more]
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Print at Penn
Penn holds enormous print resources dating from the fifteenth through the twenty-first century and is engaged in projects to digitize important parts of the collection. ...   [more]
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Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
Also Known as: ROAR
The Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) tracks the number and size of open-access eprint archives. It has two functions: (1) to monitor overall growth in the number of eprint archives, and (...   [more]
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University of Pennsylvania Finding Aids
Also Known as: Penn EADs
Finding aids for manuscript and archival research materials held by the Archives at the Library of the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, the Biddle Law Library, the Rare Book & Manuscript Libra...   [more]
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    Kislak Center finding aids
    Biddle Law Library finding aids
    Library at the Katz CAJS finding aids
    Penn Museum finding aids
    University Archives & Record Center finding aids

Related Publishing Libraries & History of the Book Libraries, Museums, Catalogs & Archives

LibDex The Library Index
Worldwide directory of library homepages....   [more]
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LIBWEB Library Servers via WWW
Also Known as: lib-web
Worldwide directory of library homepages....   [more]
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    U.S. Academic Libraries

The European Library
The European Library webservice is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 43 national libraries of Europe. It off...   [more]
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