Provides free access to the merged online catalogues of major University, Specialist, and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland, including the British Library.
Search the Center for Research Libraries' vast collections of books, newspapers, microforms, journals, foreign dissertations, and other materials and request items via Interlibrary Loan.
Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. Library Thing also connects you with people who read the same things.
Search 1.8 million records, with links to 152,000 images, video and sound files from dozens of Smithsonian libraries, archives, museums, and specialized research units.
SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES - 1.5 million printed books, manuscripts, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, and electronic versions of rare books and exhibitions. ARCHIVES, MANUSCRIPTS & PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS - 252,000 descriptions of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, films, and organizational records. SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM RESEARCH DATABASES - 600,000 records of the Inventory of American Painting & Sculpture, Photograph Archives and Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index. SPECIALIZED RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHIES - 15,500 citations specialized in Cephalopod, Marine Mammals and Museum Studies research. - 10,000 records including bibliographic & legal citations, important events, images, and biographical information on the Board of Regents. DIRECTORY OF AIRPLANES - 40,000 aircraft and manufacturer records comprise this authority listing- an online expansion of The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Directory of Airplanes, Their Designers and Manufacturers. IMAGE GALLERY includes over 530,000 electronic images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian.
- Images by Physical Formats: photographs, postcards, postage stamps, paintings, sculptures, crafts & folk art, jewelry, aircraft, scientific specimens
- Images by Culture Groups: African Americans, Asian Culture, Latino Culture, Native Americans, Woman in History
The merged catalogs of libraries around the world, making it the world’s largest and richest database of bibliographic information. You can request items not owned by UCF via inter-library loan.
