Sometimes you'd like to refer to a book, one your local library can't help you with.
My first stop in this situation, after trying Library and Archives Canada's Aurora or Voilà, and local university libraries, is WorldCat.
Searching in the UK my first stop would be the British Library catalogue.
Now there's a new UK catalogue resource from Jisc (formerly the Joint Information Systems Committee), the library hub discover service. It's open to all; designed to make UK academic library collections visible through web searches, which means they’re available to a wider audience. It gives access to details of materials held in many UK national, academic and specialist libraries, currently containing 40,280,184 records created from 95,197,654 records contributed by 115 institutions.
John, thank you for this. I just put in the name of the Ayrshire village where my 3 X gr grandparents came from before moving to Canada in 1820 and it came up with loads of hits. Thank you! Cheers, and I hope I'll see you tomorrow, BT
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