union catalogue

noun

1. a catalogue listing every publication held at cooperating libraries

Example Sentences

No harmless drudge he, this Rutgers professor of English takes a broad view of his subject and includes lively pages on several dozen radically different works, including “The Code of Hammurabi,” Pliny’s “Natural History,”the long defunct papal index of prohibited books, Hoyle’s rules for card games, the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the National Union Catalogue, Emily Post’s “Etiquette in Society,” “The Joy of Sex,” the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics and even “Schott’s Original Miscellany.”

From Washington Post

Union Catalogue—During the year 26,033 new titles were added including 2,928 from the microfilmed record of library catalogues.

From Project Gutenberg

During the war the Country Library Service had been given responsibility for several tasks of national scope, such as the War Library Service, the Central Bureau for Library Book Imports, the formation of a Union Catalogue, and the operation of part of the inter-library loan scheme.

From Project Gutenberg