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lib-web-cats
A Directory of Libraries Throughout the World
Maintained by Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt University.

WorldCat
"Over 1 billion items in more than 10,000 libraries worldwide"
- OCLC Online Computer Library Center

Africana Libraries, Research Centers, Archives, Museums - (dead link)
From the Dorothy Porter Wesley Research Center

California Digital Library
A Co-Library of the campuses of the University of California

Library of Congress (LC)
U.S. National Library
For online LC cataloging material see our Cataloging Resources page.

Library of Congress Help Desk

Libweb - Library Servers via WWW
"Libweb currently lists over 6100 pages from libraries in over 100 countries."
Maintained by Thomas Dowling

Medical / Health Science Libraries on the Web
From Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources (Hardin MD), Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, University of Iowa

MERLN - Military Education and Research Library Network
"...is the web presence of the military education libraries in the United States, and worldwide. MERLN provides access to the combined resources of the largest and most comprehensive collections of military information in the world including library holdings, electronic information resources and digitized primary source research materials of the 13 participating libraries ... The contents of MERLN have changed in the past few months to now include a number of digitized collections of primary source research materials in military history."

National Library of Jamaica

Search for Schools, Colleges, and Libraries
From the U.S. Dept. of Education - National Center for Education Statistics

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