Verifying Information for Book Order Requests:
- Book Index with Reviews- Select GALILEO Databases A-Z, then Book Index with Reviews.
- Book Review Digest Plus - Select GALILEO Databases A-Z, then Book Review Digest Plus. Includes descriptive summaries of books as well as excerpts of book reviews.
- WorldCat - A GALILEO database providing access to the worldwide catalog of books from OCLC.
- National Library Catalogues Worldwide
- VLB - German Books in Print
- ChooseBooks - European catalogue of antiquarian books on the Internet.
- Italian Books in Print
- Library of Congress - Also provides access to the catalogs of other colleges and universities.
Book Reviews and More:
- BookPage - A monthly general interest book review, BookPage covers the best in new releases--reviews up to 100 of each month's new fiction, nonfiction, business, children's, spoken word audio, and how-to books.
- Overbooked
- BookWire
- Atlantic Online
- NYPL for Readers and Writers - From the New York Public Library.
- Inland Library System Reader's Advisory Service
- New York Times Book Reviews - Access is free, but you must have a password and user ID.
- Amazon.com
- Sites for Book Lovers from West Bloomfield Township Public Library
Search for Out-of-Print Books:
- ABE - Advanced Book Exchange is an Internet selling service dealing exclusively in out-of-print, used, rare and antiquarian books.
- Alibris - Over 40 million used, new and out-of-print books. Alibris for Libraries is a leading library supplier of used, new, and hard-to-find books, movies and music.
- Bookfinder - Searches top book databases to find you new, used, rare, and out of print books.
- Powell's Books
- Out-of-Print, Rare and Antiquarian Agents - AcqWeb's list.
- ISBN.nu - Enter part of a title or a name of a favorite author and search nine big new and used book sites.
- AddALL - Book Search and Price Comparison website.
- All Bookstores.com - AllBookstores.com does not sell books, only compares the price and then provides a convenient link for you to make your purchase from the merchant of your choice.
- Fetch Book.Info - New & used books - Find the lowest price - Compare 81 book stores, 40,000 sellers, in a click.
- Bargain Book Closeouts
- Chambal.com - compare new and used book prices across major online bookstores.
- Your Old Books - an excellent source for evaluating the worth of an item.
Bookstores on the Web:
- Amazon
- Barnes & Noble
- W. H. Smith - Includes books listed in British Books in Print. Books declared out-of-print in the US may be available from this web site.
- Books and Book Collecting - Not a bookstore, but links to numerous book stores on the web. If you are looking for a missing volume of a set, see SetMaker available at this site.
- American Booksellers Association - Use the Member Directories web site to search for a bookstore by specialty.
- African Books Collective - Markets and distributes African published books.
- Casalini Libri - Exporter of Italian publications.
- Librairies Francophones @ Globe-Gate - Links to suppliers of French material.
- Puvill - "Booksellers and providers of library services in Spanish language titles from Spain and Mexico."
- Alapage - For French books.
- Gallimard- Publisher of French books.
- Harrassowitz - Specializes in the distribution of scholarly books, periodicals, and music scores to academic libraries.
Publishers on the Web:
- AcqWeb - AcqWeb's directory of publishers and vendors with web pages. AcqWeb is not currently being maintained and contains some out-of-date information.
- AAUP Online Catalog - Information on University presses.
- SPANnet - Resource for purchasing books direct from small publishers.
- Publisher's Catalogues - US and International
Other Useful Sites:
Vendors
- Baker & Taylor - Publications that are crucial information sources for making purchasing decisions.
- EBSCO - Reese Library's serial vendor.
- Blackwell's Online Bookshop
- Ingram Book Company
- Eastern Book Company
- The Book House
- Proquest (UMI)- Provides access to easy Web searching and ordering of dissertations.
- Emery-Pratt- Provides access to easy Web searching and ordering of dissertations.
Other Acquisitions Resources
- Acquisitions - From Middle Tennessee State University Library.
- Books & Literature- From the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
- Master Vendor List - Excellent vendor information from the Law Library at the University of Iowa.
- New Title Notifications - Email updates from publishers and vendors.
- Reprint and On-Demand Publishers
- Open WorldCat - Search for
an item in libraries near you.
- CD-ROM's, Videos, Music and More
- Music Selection Resources on the WWW - Sites selected by Anna Seaberg, music selector for the King County Library System.
- Song Search CD Store - Useful for finding which CD contains a certain song.
- Spanish Ministry of Culture- For finding Spanish and foreign films released in Spain.
- Reel.com
- Internet Movie Database - Find information about a movie and where it can be purchased.
- MRC: Video Distributor Database - By Gary Handman, Media Resources Center, Library, University of California, Berkeley.
- Facets Multi-Media
- Films Media Group - Includes Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, and MeridianEducation.
- Insight Media
- CD Hotlist - Provides timely
reviews of new CD releases of interest to libraries.
- Educational Video Network
- Documentary Educational Resources - DER "archive is one of the most historically important resources of ethnographic film in the world today."
- Media Education Foundation -Media Education Foundation (MEF) produces and distributes educational resources relating to contemporary media issues.