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WorldCat
Worldwide catalog of books and other materials available in OCLC member libraries.

Area Libraries

PALNI
Search the shared web catalog of the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana, a statewide consortium to which Earlham belongs. Other PALNI institutions include Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Butler University, Christian Theological Seminary, DePauw University, and Wabash College.

Ball State University Libraries Catalog
Search the web catalog of the Indiana research library nearest to Earlham College.

Indiana State University Libraries
Search the web catalogs of Indiana State University, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology & Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.

Indiana University
Search the web catalogs of the IU statewide system, including IU East in Richmond and the main Bloomington campus.

Miami University Library Catalog--Sherlock
Search the web catalog of the research library nearest to Earlham College.

Morrisson-Reeves Library
Search the web catalog of Richmond's splendid public library.

OhioLINK
Search the catalogs of the 80+ members of The Ohio Library and Information Network via a web interface. Members include Wright State University, The University of Dayton, Oberlin College, and Ohio State University.

Purdue University Libraries
Search the web catalog for all Purdue campus libraries.

Richmond Community Schools Library
This library is listed here to provide graduate students in education a ruote for quick access to the resources available in the school system. Material can not be borrowed directly from rthe library unless you are a student or teacher in the school.

Other Libraries

The European Library
A portal offering combined access to the national libraries of Europe.

The Library of Congress
Learn about the library and its extensive services. Explore their impressive digital exhibits or search the web version of the catalog.

Libdex
Links to libraries around the word.

Digital Library Collections

Digital Book Index
Links to major digital collections around the globe.

Early English Books Online
Almost 100,000 books published between 1475-1700.

netLibrary
Titles from major book publishers, both scholarly and general interest, available for online checkout through our participation in the INCOLSA statewide library network.

Cornell University Digital Library Collections
An array of digital materials.

Harvard University Open Collections Program
An array of digital materials.

Google Book Search
An ambitious project that aims to digitize the collections of selected major researching libraries including the University of Michigan and Stanford University.

Project Gutenberg
A large selection of public-domain books published pre-1923, including such authors as William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Dante, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Digital Quaker Collection
A digital library containing full text and page images of more than 500 Quaker works from the 17th and 18th centuries.

Plowshares Digital Archive for Peace Studies
Primary documents covering the social justice efforts of Earlham College, Goshen College, and Manchester College, as well as their affiliated historic peace churches (Quakers, Mennonites, and the Church of the Brethren) from the 1700s to the present. Includes diaries, minutes, correspondence, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals.

Documenting the American South
Primary source material "documenting the cultural history of the American South from the viewpoint of Southerners. It offers diaries, autobiographies, travel accounts, titles on slavery and regional literature."

Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia
Thousands of electronic texts in several languages. Although some of these texts are available for perusal at this site, others are restricted for use by the University of Virginia community.

Making of America
Contains some 360,000 pages of original printed text from several thousand volumes of primary sources related to the development of US infrastructure during the antebellum period and reconstruction. From the University of Michigan.

National Academy Press
Over 1,800 online books from the National Academy of Sciences and more.

Wright American Fiction (1851-1875)
Attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. It includes works by well known writers such as Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville, along with a great many forgotten authors. Courtesy of Indiana University.