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Library catalogues of interest to indologists

Library catalogues by country

See also several of the sites listed under [General] and under [Institutions].

Europe generally

• [The European Library: gateway to Europe's national libraries]

• The Karlsruher Virtuelle Katalog (KVK) provides a unified WWW interface for searching various library catalogues simultaneously. It covers all German university libraries, the Library of Congress, and the major British catalogues (BL, COPAC). Among the German catalogues, the Union Catalogue of Southwest Germany (SWB) including Tuebingen University Library, and the Union Catalogue of Northern Germany (GBV) including Goettingen, Halle and Hamburg may be of particular interest to indologists.

  Available in [English] and in [German].

India

• [Thanjavur Serfoji's Sarasvati Mahal Library]

• [Roja Muthiah Research Library]

  Madras library of Tamil literature, being sponsored internationally, with a home page at The University of Chicago.

• [French Institute of Pondicherry :: Library Catalogue]

  ``The library catalogue of the French Institute of Pondicherry has been available on the Internet for close to 3 years. It is a useful resource for Indologists as more than half the collection consists of Indological books. ... Please note that the catalogue is quite unique since it enables search and display of Indian-language entries in both the original Indian scripts (by selecting the Full Catalog Or Database) and in Roman Transliteration (UNICODE). The transliterated DB (Full Catalog Tr) has been set as the default database.'' (Ms. Anurupa Naik, Chief Librarian, French Institute of Pondicherry)

Great Britain

• [Mapping Asia]

  "Mapping Asia is a tool to improve access to UK library holdings for researchers working in all subject areas of the humanities and social sciences relating to Asia, the Middle East and North Africa."

• [Clickable map of libraries in Britain]

  Superb method of locating resources: libraries, universities, research institutes.

• [Combined online public access catalogue of the major UK university libraries]

  Web interface, and permits subject searching too. Currently includes several million book records from the catalogues of London, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Leeds, and Glasgow Universities, with more to be added in the near future.

• [British Library Portico service]

  General information about the British Library collections.

• [British Library catalogues]

  General catalogues for the British Library collections.

• Cambridge University Library

  • [Website]

  • [Direct telnet access to the catalogue]

• [Oxford University Libraries Information]

  [Direct telnet link to Oxford's library catalogues]

  The Bodleian also provides a nice gateway to other services: [Bodleian Access to Remote Databases]

• [School of Oriental and African Studies Library]

  Direct telnet to the [SOAS library catalogue]. Login as "library".

• [Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine]

  Includes Indic language materials.

Finland

• [Helsinki University library: The National Library of Finland]

The Netherlands

• [Koninklijke Bibliotheek]

  The Dutch National Library

Germany

• [Orientabteilung, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin]

• [The Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project (NGMPP)] , Hamburg

• Cf. the Karlsruher Virtuelle Katalog (KVK) above. ( [English] or [German].)

• [Tübingen University Library]

  Germany's national library collection of South Asian materials. Direct telnet to [the library OPAC]. Login as "OPAC".

• [Goettingen University Library]

  When connected, click "Katalog" in the left frame, select the English version (optional), and then click "Online Catalogue via WWW".

  [New collection of digital resources, and useful links]

United States

• [Library of Congress catalogue].

• [University of Chicago Library]

• [University of California Libraries (Melvyl)]

• [Yale University Library (ORBIS)]

• [Harvard: HOLLIS (Harvard Online Library Information System)]

  Includes library catalogues.

• [University of Texas Library]

  Includes library catalogues and links to further services.

• [University of Washington Libraries, Seattle]

  Strong South Asian collections, with [an international inter-library loan facility].

• [University of Pennsylvania Library Catalogue]

  Strong South Asian collections, also with international [electronic ILL facilities]