Ann, there are sometimes copies of particular books relating to Irish local history that do not show up in WorldCat. I'm not sure why that is. But I noticed that some of the Irish local history books I have requested through interlibrary loan were obtained from libraries of small Catholic colleges or religious institutions. I was surprised to get these books on loan from places much closer to me than I had expected from looking at the listings in WorldCat. (I live in the US, in Oregon.) Some of my requests have also come from libraries in the college system of the state of California also - which one would think could be found in WorldCat, but apparently not. I'm guessing that not all libraries are part of WorldCat. The interlibrary loan person at my local library has ways of finding these copies, so the library must have other resources that they check besides WorldCat. Can any librarians out there shed light on this? Geralyn Wood Barry in Oregon, USA On 2/28/2012 7:51 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Today somebody asked me where to get a copy of "St. Ailbe's Heritage" > (1994, Cashel and Emly. I looked it up on WorldCat.org and found 7 copies. The > closest to me was at the Notre Dame library, 1700 miles away from me, but > thanks to my library's system's InterLibraryLoan, it is as close as the > request form on my computer. But I was surprised to find none in Ireland. That > doesn't mean that they don't exist. One could certainly check the online > catalog of the county libraries there, or the Tipperary Family History. >