{"id":1252,"date":"2018-02-02T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T14:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/?page_id=1252"},"modified":"2018-02-02T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T15:06:31","slug":"onlinelibrary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/onlinelibrary\/","title":{"rendered":"onlinelibrary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"pgtop\">Finding Hard-copy Historical Sources <br \/>\nin On-line Library Catalogs<\/h1>\n<p>I suggest that you use a subject directory or search engine to discover which libraries near you (or at a location to which you plan to travel) have on-line catalogs. Then make &#8220;bookmarks&#8221; for each of them. Once you find a book or other resource that you need, you can go to the library, check the material out or use it on-premises. What follows is a list of on-line library catalogs in the area where the students at Austin Community College live.<\/p>\n<p><b>On-line Library Catalogs in the Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a>The University of Texas at Austin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.ci.austin.tx.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Public Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/libr.stedwards.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Edwards University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwestern.edu\/library\/\" target=\"_blank\">Southwestern University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/webcat.library.swt.edu\/web2\/tramp2.exe\/log_in?setting_key=english&amp;guest=guest\" target=\"_blank\">Southwest Texas State University<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsl.state.tx.us\" target=\"_blank\">Texas State Library<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><b>America&#8217;s National Library<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By this I mean the Library of Congress. Its <a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb.loc.gov\">catalog<\/a> is accessible on-line. Almost all titles that exist about a subject are in the LC. If you find a title in the LC catalog, chances are good that your college, university, or local public library can get it for you through Inter-Library Loan (unless it is a rare book). The book will probably come to you from some library other than the LC.<\/p>\n<p>The LC catalog is easy to use. One can do a Basic Search, an Advanced Search, a Number Search, or a Browse Search. These searches are explained at the site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/onlinelibrary\/\">On to the next section<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding Hard-copy Historical Sources in On-line Library Catalogs I suggest that you use a subject directory or search engine to discover which libraries near you (or at a location to which you plan to travel) have on-line catalogs. Then make &#8220;bookmarks&#8221; for each of them. Once you find a book or other resource that you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/onlinelibrary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;onlinelibrary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4046,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1252","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}