{"id":14859,"date":"2022-03-05T09:23:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T15:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14859"},"modified":"2022-03-05T09:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T15:23:54","slug":"worldcat-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/05\/worldcat-searches\/","title":{"rendered":"WorldCat Searches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is no doubt that digital images of out of copyright books can be a great way to immediately access those items. But there are materials that are not digitized, are not out of copyright, or are otherwise not available online immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\">WorldCat <\/a>is a global online library card catalog. It includes traditional print materials and archival materials in special collections. Some materials may not be available for interlibrary loan or subject to other access restrictions. But WorldCat is a great way to learn about these materials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Links to a few sample searches (of subject headings);<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/search?q=su%3AReal+property+Maryland+Harford+County+Maps.&amp;qt=results_page\">Plat books for Harford County, Maryland<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/search?q=su%3ACoshocton+County+%28Ohio%29+History.&amp;qt=hot_subject\">Histories of Coshocton County, Ohio<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/search?q=su%3AImmigrants+Illinois+History+19th+century.&amp;qt=hot_subject\">Immigration into Illinois<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/advancedsearch\">Advanced Search <\/a>page on WorldCat can also be a great place to do some experimentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no doubt that digital images of out of copyright books can be a great way to immediately access those items. But there are materials that are not digitized, are not out of copyright, or are otherwise not available online immediately. WorldCat is a global online library card catalog. It includes traditional print materials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}