Favorite Libraries

My favorite libraries in California and Oregon.

This page:
California: Bay Area | California: Elsewhere | California: Statewide | Oregon

California: San Francisco Bay Area

South Bay:

• Mountain View Public Library
• Palo Alto City Library
• Santa Clara City Library
• Santa Clara County Library
• Santa Clara University
• Stanford University
• Sunnyvale Public Library
• Silicon Valley Library System
• West Valley College

Elsewhere in the Bay Area:

• Alameda County Library
• Oakland Public Library
• Peninsula Library System - Includes a union catalog of all San Mateo County libraries' holdings
• San Francisco Public Library
• San Francisco State University Library

California: Elsewhere

• California State Library, Sacramento
• California State University Sacramento
• Los Angeles Public Library
• San Luis Obispo City-County Library

California: Statewide

• University of California Libraries:

• UC Libraries
• Melvyl catalog
• University of California Campus Libraries:
• UC Berkeley
• UC Davis
• UC Irvine
• UC Los Angeles (UCLA)
• UC Merced
• UC Riverside
• UC San Diego
• UC San Francisco
• UC Santa Barbara
• UC Santa Cruz
• California Digital Library

Web Directories of California Libraries:

• California Library Directory (California State Library)
• LibDex: California - List by library type
• Libweb:
• California academic libraries
• California public libraries
• lib-web-cats: California - List by library name (Marshall Breeding, Vanderbilt U.)
• California Community College Libraries (Santa Rosa Jr. College)

Union Catalogs of California Libraries:

• California Libraries Catalog (CalCat) - Union catalog of most libraries in the state. Search a title, find which libraries own it. (A subset of OCLC WorldCat)

• Melvyl, which contains catalog and holdings data for the following libraries:

• University of California campuses (List above)

• Related Academic Institutions:

  • Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
  • Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• California State Library, Sacramento

• Independent Organizations:

  • California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
  • California Historical Society, San Francisco

• Center for Research Libraries (the research library's research library)



• Pharos - Catalog of the California State University libraries (22 campuses)
• Link + - Union catalog of some CSU libraries and other college and public libraries

Oregon

• Southern Oregon University, Ashland
• Jackson County Library Services, Medford, Ashland, and vicinity

Union Catalog:

• Summit - Union catalog of academic libraries in Oregon and Washington