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The online catalog of materials owned by Penn State Libraries.
Includes books, ebooks, videos, periodicals, maps, music, digitized works, microfilm titles, and other formats that are in the University Libraries' collections.
Note: you will not find articles from newspapers, magazines, or journals in the library catalog.
Coverage: Presently contains about 7 million titles. Updates: Hourly as new records are added or updated.
an integrated search of books, e-books, research articles, newspaper articles, and other publications.
If Penn State does not have what you need, you can request materials directly from other libraries and have them delivered to Penn State using these databases.
search 50 PA and regional academic libraries for book loans
E-ZBorrow is a web gateway that allows simultaneous searching of over 60 academic library catalogs in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia, including the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, Temple University, Carnegie Mellon University, and Rutgers University. Penn State faculty, staff, and students can place requests for books within E-ZBorrow.
search catalogs and request directly from our Big Ten partners
Uborrow simultaneously searches the catalogs of the CIC 'Big Ten' libraries such as Ohio State, Michigan State, the University of Michigan, the University of Illinois, and the University of Chicago. Penn State faculty, staff, and students can place requests for books and other material for loan within Uborrow.
E-Books
Many historical books have been scanned and are available online. Significant collections of early printed books include:
This digital index to millions of books created from the contents of university libraries and others. Recent books can only be searched, while older (out of copyright) books are Full View.
A digital catalog and repository created by research libraries. PSU users can download out of copyright texts.
Sponsored by the libraries of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the University of California, and other partners, HathiTrust is a repository of digitized materials in all disciplines. Its content--primarily scanned books and journals-- may be searched via authors, titles, subjects, and other data elements.
Early accounts of counties and places in Pennsylvania. These colorful, if not the most scholarly of sources, can provide local details not recorded elsewhere.
County and Regional Histories & Atlases: Pennsylvania provides portraits of people, places and events, putting the state’s local history into current context with the examination of demographic, social and cultural transformations. Included in this collection of 283 titles are tables and lists of vital statistics, military service records, municipal and county officers, chronologies, portraits of individuals and views of urban and rural life. The atlases provide additional information on land use and settlement patterns and scarce early town and city plans. Use this collection to support research in areas such as regional studies, social history, genealogy, economics and business.
Digitiized publications (books, pamphlets and broadsides) produced in the American colonies and the early United States before 1800.
Evans Digital Edition (1639-1800) consists of digitized facsimiles of publications produced in the American colonies and the early United States. Derived from entries listed in Charles Evans's American Bibliography, and supplemented from other sources, it includes books, pamphlets, and broadsides on many topics, and is a fundamental resource for early American history, literature, philosophy, and religion.
Provides full-text access to some 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early nineteenth century
Early American Imprints, Series II (1801-1819) provides full-text access to some 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the early nineteenth century. The works cover all aspects of American life, including scientific thought, religion, politics, arts and literature, economics, Indian relations, military affairs, Westward expansion and more. The database is based on the authoritative bibliography by Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, supplemented by thousands of newly identified items. The database continues the Early American Imprints: Series I, 1639-1800.
Full texts and images of over 180,000 titles and editions printed in the British Isles and the Americas between 1701 and 1800. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more
Full texts and images of over 180,000 titles and editions printed in the British Isles and the Americas between 1701 and 1800. Includes books, pamphlets, essays, broadsides and more.