{"id":303,"date":"2006-11-17T18:51:12","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T22:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/17\/letting-the-worldcat-out-of-the-bag\/"},"modified":"2006-11-17T18:53:34","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T22:53:34","slug":"letting-the-worldcat-out-of-the-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/11\/17\/letting-the-worldcat-out-of-the-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting the Worldcat out of the bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of legal information reources out there at a library near you&#8230;from\u00a0 Nolo&#8217;s book on Music Law to the in-depth treatises on Copyright Law.\u00a0 The trick is finding out which library has what.\u00a0 Fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Worldcat<\/a> has a search engine for library catalogs.\u00a0 You can enter in your zip and find out which libraries near you have the books you are looking for.\u00a0 For instance, a search for Nolo&#8217;s Music <em>Law: How to\u00a0Run Your Band&#8217;s Business<\/em> gives me a list of libraries\u00a0in my neighborhood that have the book.\u00a0 It\u00a0even gives me libraries around the world that have it on their shelves\u00a0(you will be glad to know the University of Hong Kong has a copy!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of legal information reources out there at a library near you&#8230;from\u00a0 Nolo&#8217;s book on Music Law to the in-depth treatises on Copyright Law.\u00a0 The trick is finding out which library has what.\u00a0 Fortunately, Worldcat has a search engine for library catalogs.\u00a0 You can enter in your zip and find out which libraries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[896,897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-consumer","category-resources-practitioner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}