Big Ten Academic Alliance Libraries
Iowa Libraries
- Grant Wood Area Education Agency (Cedar Rapids)GWAEA provides K-12 school improvement services for students, families, teachers, administrators and their communities. They provide instructional materials to support classroom instruction and support for school improvement, working as educational partners with public and accredited, private schools.
- International Dada Archive This link opens in a new windowFounded in 1979 as part of the Dada Archive and Research Center, the International Dada Archive is a scholarly resource for the study of the historic Dada movement. The Archive has compiled a comprehensive collection of textual documentation relating to Dada which includes books, articles, microfilmed manuscript collections, videorecordings, sound recordings, and a few computer files. The primary access to the entire collection is through a card catalog indexing an estimated 47,000 titles, and an online catalog containing approximately 42,000 titles (the International Online Bibliography of Dada).
- Iowa Locator (State Library of Iowa)The State Library of Iowa's union catalog. Includes holdings of dozens of libraries throughout the state.
- State Historical Society of IowaIncludes material in the collections of both the Iowa City and Des Moines research centers. The location information in each catalog record indicates if that item is available in Iowa City, Des Moines, or in both places. Currently the online catalog contains records for only a small percentage of the Society's library and archival collections.
Union Catalogs & Miscellaneous
- Center for Research LibrariesThe Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. These resources are then made available to member institutions through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery. The University of Iowa Libraries is a founding member of CRL.
- European LibraryThe European Library offers access to the resources of the national libraries of Europe. Some resources provide only bibliographical information (drawn from the libraries' catalogs) and some provide access to digital collections held by those libraries (digitized copies of manuscripts, maps, journals, books, etc.).
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowA bibliographic database of over 258 million records from more than 10,000 libraries around the world.
- WorldCat.org This link opens in a new windowThe freely accessible version of WorldCat. WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of local libraries and thousands more around the world.
