30 January 2013

World Cat Can't Find What Google Books Did

This screen shot is from a search of Google Books for "james mundy peoria." This was an attempt to locate material on my uncle who lived in Peoria, Illinois, from approximately 1900 until his death in the early 1950s.

I have census and other information on James--what I'm after is a copy of the reference shown in the search of Google Books as shown above. Only a snippet of the item can be seen as it's not out of copyright as it was published in 1950.

Clicking on the link to find the the item "in a libary" did not work either. We're working on locating a copy of the reference and will have a blog post as soon as I've been able to locate an actual copy of the material.
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3 comments:

  1. John9:47 AM

    I think this WorldCat link may be what you want:

    http://www.worldcat.org/title/locomotive-engineers-journal/oclc/2263659

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  2. Mary J. Lohr11:07 AM

    Not every library is a member of WorldCat. Small community libraries may have an online presence, but their catalog may not be linked to OCLC/WorldCat.

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  3. Bubba2:27 PM

    That's the correct one John. I thought it was odd that the "automatic" search didn't locate it--but am glad you found it.

    Appreciately,

    Michael

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