Using Other Library Catalogs

Orange Public Library Catalog -- LSC-O students and staff may borrow books from our local city library by presenting current LSC-O ID cards. The public library is located on 5th Street one block away from our campus. It is a good library for finding books for children and young adults and books of popular fiction or non-fiction.

WorldCat -- Most college and university libraries and the larger public libraries in the world use WorldCat to create their catalog records, thus creating a huge combined database of holdings for all of these libraries. Search WorldCat to see what books and other items are located in other libraries. If you find something that you need, fill out an Interlibrary Loan Form, and we'll try to get it for you. This database is freely available on the Web.

NetLibrary -- A collection of online books, also known as ebooks, fully available online. Off campus users need to first create a username/password in the database. Learn how.

Google Books -- Google is creating the world's largest collection of online books. Many of the world's largest libraries are cooperating in the effort. Anything that is not still under copyright might be there. When the book is still under copyright there may be table of contents pages plus some parts of books supplied by publishers to entice you to purchase their books. WorldCat (see above) is working with Google to make all of its library holdings world-wide known to Web users. Click the link "Find this book in a library" and you will be using WorldCat. Our holdings will show up there along with other libraries and their distance from our campus. If we do not have it, fill out an Interlibrary Loan Form, and we'll try to get it for you.