Library Catalogs – International Gateways
European Gateways to Library Catalogs
Gabriel: Gateway to Europe’s National Libraries
Gabriel is the World Wide Web service of Europe’s National Libraries represented in the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). In Gabriel you can find information about all the National Libraries of Europe, their services, including OPACs, and the online exhibitions they offer.
IRIS Gateway to Library Catalogs
IRIS, the Consortium of Art History and Humanities Libraries in Florence, provides a listing of other useful library catalogs.
Italian Libraries OPAC
A gateway to Italian library catalogs.
International Gateways to Library Catalogs
artlibraries.net - Virtual Catalogue for Art History
Formerly known as the VKK, artlibraries.net is a specialized meta catalogue allowing the integrated retrieval of bibliographic records and, should the occasion arise, other objects of distinctive art historical databases.
Artlibraries.net includes a high percentage of records for articles in periodicals, conference papers, festschriften, exhibition catalogues and exhibition books, etc.
International Directory of Art Libraries
This directory is provided as a means to access nearly 3,000 libraries and library departments with specialized holdings in art, architecture, and archaeology throughout the world.
KVK – Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
KVK is a federated search system, searching catalogs mainly from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but including nearly 20 national library catalogs and some antiquarian catalogs. Best use is for “known item” searches.
Libdex
A worldwide searchable directory of more than 18,000 library Web sites and their (web-based) OPACs.
LIBWEB: Library Servers via WWW
Searchable directory of library Web sites, (more than 7,100 pages from libraries in over 115 countries), organized by type of library for United States listings, by continent and alphabetically for others.
WorldCat.org
A union catalog of academic, public, and special libraries’ holdings. Over 40 million bibliographic records are included.
