#WorldCat

[knightotoc]

AMEN!

or a digital copy here:

[thepotentialof2007]

Over the past several months, Anna’s Archive has been secretly scraping WorldCat, the world’s largest book metadata database.

WorldCat is run by the non-profit organization OCLC and works with tens of thousands of libraries globally. Its database is proprietary and not freely available but Anna’s Archive managed to bypass the restrictions, to make their own copy freely available.

“Even though OCLC is a non-profit, their business model requires protecting their database. Well, we’re sorry to say, friends at OCLC, we’re giving it all away,” Anna’s Archive notes.

PS: We do want to give a genuine shout-out to the Worldcat team. Even though it was a small tragedy that your data was locked up, you did an amazing job at getting 30,000 libraries on board to share their metadata with you. As with many of our releases, we could not have done it without the decades of hard work you put into building the collections that we now liberate. Truly: thank you.

The meta-search engine says it managed to scrape a staggering three terabytes of metadata. The dataset includes 1.3 billion unique IDs that, after removing duplicates and other noise, equate to 700 million unique records.

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See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OCLC

Internet Archive: Syncing Catalogs with thousands of Libraries in 120 Countries through OCLC

[sofiadistracted]

As a librarian I use WorldCat all the time, it's fun when you want to see who has what and helpful when you need to see how other people cataloged a book.

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[ya-world-challenge]

Searching WorldCat by subject. This is insanely helpful, why haven't I done this before?

Filtered by language, fiction, ebook. I have to figure out where to access any one book, but finding a list is usually the biggest challenge.

[penspagesandpulses]

READERS: don't forget THIS way to help support your favorite authors (especially indie authors)!!!

This evening, I was going to submit an interlibrary loan request (basically my library borrows it from another library) for a book by one of my favorite indie authors. Before I submitted my request, I checked WorldCat (an online database of books available at libraries nationwide) to see how close of a library had the book. The closest library on that database that had a copy of that book was in…

[thatwritererinoriordan]

This is my author page in Worldcat, should anyone wish to find my books in a library.

[andsaramirezlove]

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[ahhvernin]

Gee golly! I guess telling people about WORLDCAT where they can look up an academic article or book and find a digital copy or the nearest library that might have it and request it for FREE and avoid a paywall, is barred by the Fahrenheit 451 Police. Oh no!

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[sprolden]

apparently my uni account won't get deleted until december-ish so that means I get to go on worldcat and read random papers I barely understand for a few more months yayyyy

[liefdesleven]

only library this book (Queer Gothic, G. Haggerty, red.) is available in is ihlia and after that they're sending me to SUFFOLK. in the uk. girl WHY. libgen isn't giving me anything either. its on archive dot org but that's so impractical 4 reading.....

[chaotic---calm]

Yes! Libraries are such wonderful resources. Please use them!

Also, even if your local library doesn't have something you want, you may be able to get it through WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/

WorldCat is a database that helps you locate items available at libraries across the globe. Many of these libraries will share their resources with one another. So maybe you live in Kansas and really want to see this rare movie or anime, but your local library doesn't have it, but a library in Massachusetts does; you can request it, and that Massachusetts library will send it to your library just for you. It can take a little longer, you sometimes don't get to keep things as long, and you aren't allowed renewals, but it's a fantastic way to access random stuff you'd like to see for free! And if you have any trouble figuring it out, one of the librarians at your location will be able to help you.

I'm less familiar with how this works outside the US or for borrowing items across country borders, but I've used WorldCat to find a lot of anime, manga, foreign films, etc. that my local libraries didn't have that I couldn't find anywhere else without paying for subscription services I couldn't afford or just buying the item.

Genuinely: For people who are angry and frustrated at the limited number of movies and shows available for streaming, at the way streaming services pull or cancel movies and shows at will, at the way every media corporation under the sun is pulling their stuff onto their own streaming service and balkanizing access to things behind a dozen different monthly subscriptions? For people who miss Blockbuster and want to be able to just rent a DVD again?

See if your local library has a DVD collection.

If I want to watch The Mummy (1999) with Brendan Fraser? I can't stream it on Netflix, but I can borrow it from my local library.

If I want to watch The Mummy (1932) with Boris Karloff? I can't stream that pretty much anywhere, but I can borrow it from my local library.

I want to watch Star Wars or Iron Man or my favorite Disney movie but I refuse to sell my soul to pay for Disney+? I can borrow these from my local library.

Do I want to finish watching Star Trek: Deep Space 9 or check out Star Trek: Picard but resent that it's all on yet another streaming service I don't want? I can borrow season box sets of DVDs from my local library!

Obviously, available circulating collections vary a lot between library systems. (My hometown's library has all of Star Trek DS9 on DVD, for example, but my college town's library only has TOS, Picard, and Discovery.) And of course it depends on whether things are released in physical media form at all, and you won't be able to keep up with new episodes of new series - it takes a while for many things to come out on DVD.

But there can be a lot of good stuff there too. For example, I missed Nope in theaters, but I still really want to see it. So I have it on hold from my local library. I'm 73rd in line on 50 copies, so it'll be a while.

So check to see what DVD collections your library does have - it might surprise you what you can get access to, for free, in a manner that no greedy corporation can yank away.

And by checking out DVDs, you are telling the library that you use and want them to maintain and grow their AV media collection. Which is an encouragement we could really use these days.

[the-everqueen]

@two-hands-toward-the-sun

so the gist of this hypothetical dissertation would be talking about queerness as an embodied concept in the OG sandman comix - namely how queerness becomes elided with bodily autonomy (or lack thereof). from my proposed triad, clearly i am thinking about the Corinthian, but i'd also want to talk about Wanda, Desire, Hazel and Foxglove. i'd be situating my analysis in relation to the AIDS crisis (which informs a lot of the comix), alongside a foucaultian understanding of biopolitics (whose bodies are seen as expendable and to what extent, whose bodies are under surveillance/control, etc).

some thoughts i'd want to explore: Wanda's womanhood and how it's realized through the medium but also contested among the powers that be - ritual magic vs the Endless. Desire as a villain and nonbinary identities as a disruption to spacetime as a storied concept. the Corinthian as specifically queer horror: he preys on young men, outing them in their deaths, and he's the worst case scenario of cruising, which involves a lot of vulnerability in the face of societal violence. (VERY interesting, also, that the second Corinthian's "redemption," so to speak, involves saving a small [read: innocent] child from violence and no real address of the desire that had him [heavily implied] sleeping with his victims.) who "gets" to embody queerness and what are the limits on that expression? what does queerness "look like" in the sandman universe? how are these bodies regulated/surveilled? there's a lot of overlap with queerness, violence, and/or disease in the sandman comix that reflects the ideas of the period in which it was made, but also...imho...deserves serious critique.

[gothhabiba]

I just saw a tumblr user refer to an elder’s research prowess in looking for a book in some “Mysterious Cataloguing Site” (capitals original), presenting this site like an impossibly esoteric part of the Deep Web that only researchers who’ve pulled the sword from the stone or whatever are granted access to. the site in question was WorldCat.

[cecil-less-watcher]

Uh fun fact a library in Minnesota has a copy of awstens book if anyone wants it.

[rainbow6ix]

JSTOR is the superior academic source,,, I never have to change its citations ever just ask for it and BOOM done

[andsaramirezlove]

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