{"id":7,"date":"2005-06-15T21:30:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-15T21:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/?p=7"},"modified":"2005-06-15T21:30:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-15T21:30:19","slug":"uk-union-catalogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/2005\/uk-union-catalogue\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Union catalogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a million years a go (1999?) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m25lib.ac.uk\/Link\/search?inner=0&#038;north=0&#038;south=0&#038;todo=select+catalogues\">M25<\/a> came along with a union search for most academic libraries in my part of the world. which was good, especially when looking for something obscure.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I thought it was only a mater of counting to ten before a union catalogue of all uk libraries would turn up. Where is it? I want one.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time we have a number of other options which can help for looking for odd stuff that only one or two places might have.<\/p>\n<p>First there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redlightgreen.com\/ucwprod\/web\/workspace.jsp\">redlightgreen.com<\/a>, though once you have found the book you are looking for, you can only select one library to see if it has the book (typing in a post code and seeing what&#8217;s near by would be far more useful).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s worldcat from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcatlibraries.org\/wcpa\/ow\/eb404b8f482d3a58.html\">OCLC<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure there must be a good reason but I can&#8217;t find a normal search screen for this, you seem to be required to install a plugin, which itself uses google or yahoo, to sarch it. But once on the site a search box appears at the top. I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcatlibraries.org\/wcpa\/ow\/eb404b8f482d3a58.html\">linked to<\/a> a record for a random book which has the search box at the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a million years a go (1999?) M25 came along with a union search for most academic libraries in my part of the world. which was good, especially when looking for something obscure. At the time, I thought it was only a mater of counting to ten before a union catalogue of all uk libraries would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nostuff.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}