Author: jessamyn

american libraries pre-1876

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I thought I had the whole day free today. That was before I discovered The Davies Project and their Database of American Libraries before 1876.

This database covers institutional and commercial libraries that existed in what is now the continental United States from the time of first settlement through 1875.  It records nearly 10,000 libraries.   The end-date of 1876 is important because in that year the United State Bureau of Education published its first comprehensive, national listing of libraries, entitled Public Libraries in the United States of America: Their History, Condition, and Management. Special Report. Part. 1 [bespacific]

bookmarklet 90% done, can you help us finish it?

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If anyone would like to help Andrea and I with a little Library Lookup app of our own, we’d sure appreciate it. Full details are over on her site. I’m aware that this issue was almost dealt with a few months back and OCLC even has their own bookmarklet page but this is a little different. It combines the bookmarklet whizbang stuff with an OCLC query to take the user from Amazon right to a list of regional libraries. Sometimes you don’t know which library has your book and often time, you don’t know which one to ILL it from. Handy? Sure, if we can get it working right.