General Sites

I regret to say that I am no longer regularly updating this site I hope that parts of it will still be useful, but there will be broken links

• Britain in Print: project aiming to provide free access for all  to information about collections of early British books held in twenty-one of the nation's most important libraries.  

• Canadian Library Gateway

• Cataloque Collectif de France

• Europeana: digitised resources from Europe's archives, museums, libraries and audio visual collections

• ILibrarian: News and resources on Library 2.0 and the information revolution. Written by Ellyssa Krosk

• Libraries.org: a directory of libraries throughout the world. Maintained by Marshall Breeding

• London Libraries Consortium Libraries

• The Open Library: aims to have a web page for every book ever published

• The UK Higher Education Archives Hub

• UK Libraries Plus: now part of SCONUL Access

• UNESCO Library Portal [at the moment no longer accessible online]

• WorldCat [OCLC]: search in over 10,000 libraries worldwide

• World Digital Library: aims to make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, archi­tectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials

Academic Libraries

• Cambridge University: Digital Image Collections

• COPAC :Web Interface

• Catalogues :(mainly) North American Higher Education Institutions 

• Libraries.org : formally Lib-Web-Cats: a directory of libraries throughout the world: a good source for public and academic libraries including those in the UK

• Digital Bodleian

• Libweb: Library Servers via WWW : includes links to some UK and Irish Libraries

• The Université Shalom de Bunia (DR Congo). Library [unavailable at latest check]

• Western European Library Catalogs on the Internet 

National Libraries

Note that not all libraries will have an English version of their catalogue or website. Also some libraries will not have online catalogues.

I only have links to libraries that have websites.

There is  also a list of National Libraries on the Wikipedia Site

Several African Libraries seem to have lost their websites recently. Useful  information can be found at the National Libraries of Africa site. It is not uncommon for websites to vanish. I should be grateful to hear if they re-emerge

• The British Library

• British Library Public Catalogues

• British Library Sound Maps: recordings of music. spoken word, dialects and human and natural environments

• British Library: Turning the Pages [ability to look inside great books]

• The European Library: searches the content of European National Libraries

• National Library of Andorra

• National Library of Argentina

• National Library of Armenia

• National Library of Aruba

• National Library of Austria 

• National Library of Australia

• National Library of Bangladesh

• Royal Library of Belgium

• National Library of Bhutan

• National Library of Bolivia

• National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina

• National Library of Brazil

• National Library of Bulgaria

• National Library of Burkina Faso

• National Library of Canada

• National Library of Chile

• National Library of China

• National Library of Colombia

• National Library of Croatia

• National Library of Cuba

• National Library of the Czech Republic

• Royal Library of Denmark (National Library Of Denmark)

•  National Library of the Dominican Republic

• National Library of El Salvador[ unavailable for some time]

• National Library of Ecuador [unavailable at last check]

• National Library and Archives of Egypt

• National Library of Estonia

• National Library of Ethiopia

• National Library of the Faroe Islands

• National Library of Finland

• Bibliotheque nationale de France (National Library of France)

• National Library of Georgia

• German Library: Frankfurt

• National Library of Greece: catalogue

• National Library of Greenland

• National Library of Guatemala [I have removed this site because McAffee warned that it was unsafe]

• National Library of Guyana

• National Szechenyi Library: Hungary

• National Library of Iceland

• National Library of India

• National Library of Indonesia [temporarily unavailable]

• National Library of Iran

• Iraqi National Library and Archive

• National Library of Ireland

• Israel: Jewish National and University Library [unavailable at latest check]

• National Library of Italy- Florence

• National Library of Italy-Rome

• National Library of Jamaica

• National Diet Library, Japan

• Kenya National Library Services

• National Library of (South) Korea

• National Library of Kuwait

• National Library of Latvia

• National Library of Lithuania

• National Library of Luxembourg

• Macedonia National and University Library "St. Kliment Ohridski"

• National Library of Malaysia [unavailable at latest check]

• National Library of Malta

• National Library Republic of Mauritius [unavailable at last check]

• National Library of Mexico

• National Library of the Netherlands 

• National Library of New Zealand

• National Library of Norway

• National Library of Pakistan

• National Library of Panama

• National Library of Peru

• National Library of the Philippines

• Poland Biblioteka Narodowa

• National Library of Portugal

• National Library of Romania

• Russian National Library (St. Petersburg)

• Russian State Library (Moscow)

• National Library of Saudi Arabia

• National Library of Scotland

• National Library of Senegal

• National Library of Singapore

• The Slovak National Library in Matica slovenská

• National Library of Slovenia [unavailable at latest check]

• National Library of South Africa

• National Library of South Korea

• National Library of Spain

• National Library of Sri Lanka

• National Library of Sweden 

• National Library of Syria

• National Library of Switzerland

• National Library of Tailand

• National Library of Taiwan

• National Library of Turkey

• National Library of Uganda

• United States: Library of Congress

• National Library of Ukraine

• National Library of Uruguay

• Vatican Library

• National Library of Venezuela

• National Library of Vietnam

• National Library of Wales

Other Institutions

• Bibliotheca Alexandrina: modern library at Alexandria

• British Film Institute National Library

• British Library for Development Studies

• British Library Newspaper Archives

• Chetham's Library

• ECLAS: European Commission Library Catalogue 

• English Folk Dance and Song Society: Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

• European Court of Human Rights Library

• Gladstone's Library : was St. Deiniol's Library

• Institution of Electrical Engineers

• Institution of Mechanical Engineers

• Kew Library

• National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum

• National Library for the Blind

• Natural History Museum Library 

• The Poetry Library

• The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain: Library Catalogue

• Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

• Royal Institute of British Architects' British Architectural Library

• Royal Society of Chemistry

• St. Deiniol's Library: now Gladstone's Library

• School Libraries on the Web

• Science Museum Library

• Wellcome Trust Library

• Working Class Movement Library

• Zoological Society of London

Public Libraries

• People's Network Enquire:  enquiries answered online in real-time by library staff: a service from England's public libraries

• Public Libraries News

• UK Public Libraries Page: compiled by Sheila and Robert Harden  Sadly, this good resource seems to have been discontinued, but an archived version is available via the Wayback Machine

• US public libraries on the Web

• Voices for the Library: promoting the need for and value of trained librarians within a free and open-to-all UK public library service

• Cheshire West and Chester Library Services 

• Cheshire West and Chester  Virtual Reference Library: accessible via library card number

Recently added sites

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Updated 23/06/18

Links checked 26/06/17

© Sylvia Milne 1999-2018
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I try to link to respectable pages only, but I am not responsible for the content of external websites