Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library

Library Systems Worldwide

Libraries from around the world share information via their web sites. Some may be willing to lend materials from their collections. Talk to library staff if you have questions about how to borrow materials from other libraries. Lists may include academic, public and special libraries.

This resource is also available from home with a Library card.: This search tool provides a single-search entry for libraries throughout California. Find books, maps, audio and video materials at libraries in California. [ Search ]

California Digital Library: The California Digital Library was founded in 1997 by University of California President Richard Atkinson, who called it "a library without walls." CDL staff and advisory groups are drawn from every UC campus, from affiliated research laboratories, and from the UC Office of the President. The Library is built on the extensive base of UC knowledge and experience in developing and distributing digital materials.The CDL's Directory of Collections and Services gives library users access to a vast array of intellectual resources (due to license restrictions some resources are available only to UC faculty, students, and staff).

California State Library including its Sutro Branch: The California State Library's online catalog includes most of the holdings of the Sutro Branch (San Francisico) Library, a major genealogy library. Your local library can obtain most of the materials available at the Sutro Library for you via interlibrary loan. Enter subjects such as TITUS FAMILY or WAYNE COUNTY (don't include the state until you know how the catalog abbreviates the state you need), or use the keyword index. Look for Sutro's call number below the author and title. Give your librarian the author, title, and call number for the material you want. Books from the State Library in Sacramento can often be borrowed as well unless they are in the reference or California historical collections.

InFoPeople web site: The InFoPeople program, sponsored by the California State Library, has been instrumental in getting California's public libraries connected to the Internet.

Internet Public Library: This site provided by the University of Michigan is designed to offer some of the services and resources available at a public library. It can be particularly useful to people who either cannot get to a library or for staff at a small branch library with limited resources.

Library of Congress: Explore the wealth of information available at the Library of Congress.

Lib-web-cats: Lib-web-cats currently lists over 34,000 libraries from 119 countries.

LibraryThing: Create a catalog of your own library and share it (or not). Learn what books are in others' home libraries. Thirty million books have been cataloged so far.

LIBWEB: Library Servers via WWW: This site lists links to the following types of libraries:Academic Libraries, USA Public Libraries, National Libraries and Library Organizations, State Libraries, Regional Consortia, and Special and School Libraries. It lists over 6100 pages from libraries in over 100 countries.

MELVYL...the catalog for the University of California: This site allows you to search for books at all of the University of California campuses. To search MELVYL, open the "To Search" box and choose "MELVYL Catalog"

National Center for Education Statistics. Search for Public Libraries: U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences did a public libraries survey in fiscal year 2003. This search tool allows limiting of this data to groups of libraries by state, county, or other criteria. Data for individual libraries vary but may include legal service area population, number of branches, staff, computers, and data about circulation of materials, and the library budget.