Xtreme Bibliographic Searching for Interlibrary Loan - Part 2, search tools

I recently took a four-week online learning class offered by the American Library Association (ALA) entitled “Xtreme Bibliographic Searching for Interlibrary Loan & Reference.” I wrote about the first class on MARC and WorldCat a couple of weeks ago.  During the second week of the class, we reviewed some search tools that are used to verify requests. Here are some of the important points from that class:

• HaithiTrust is a good source to locate older materials.
• Amazon will forgive spelling errors, so if you aren’t sure the patron supplied the correct information, it can help with citation verification.
• Google Scholar is another good choice when you suspect misspellings in a citation. It will allow you to locate the author and other materials they have published.  
• The Internet Archive has published works in digital format and will let you take a look at website history on the Wayback Machine.   
• National Bibliographies from the ShareILL site are good resources for finding international materials.
• Library guides (or Libguides) are useful for finding how to locate materials or give you more background on a subject.