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Local, including CSU and I-Share
Catalogs from the libraries of the Illinois
I-Share Consortium
Chicago State University is a Governing Member of CARLI, the Consortium
of Academic and Research libraries in Illinois. Some CARLI libraries
participate and share their catalogs. These are I-Share participant
libraries in CARLI.
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Regional, including Center for Research Libraries, Chicago Public Library
Catalogs serving the region and country
Illinois, Midwest, and other United States of America libraries provide
services harder or impossible to obtain by foreign institutions.
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Worldwide, including WorldCat
Catalogs serving the world
WorldCat provides the location in over 10,000 libraries for many types
of library information packages.
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Internet, with many finding aids
Catalogs and other finding aids for the Internet
The Internet is not a system controlled by authority schemes, authorized
vocabularies, or a cataloging philosophy. It is, however, useful to
those who take the care to understand its limitations. The number and
scope of its holdings vastly, by orders of magnitude, outweighs the
world’s libraries. The world’s libraries are, in fact, part
of the Internet. There are however gray and dark portions of the Internet
which cannot be found outside the library. These items either require
purchase to use or cannot be located in Internet search tools.
CSU
Library Catalog 
