I am sure that the librarians on the list know this issue inside and out, but it is new to me. I know that data portal catalogue entries do not make it to the web, which means you have to know which portal/library to look for specific stuff, and of course i know that when you look for a book on the web you have to scroll down quite a bit to find a non amazon etc. link, but i had not realized that there was resistance to integrating library catalogue systems so that we may search the worlds collections. I know this ain't data but it sure is a lot of information!
Why you can't find a library book in your search engine
Finding
a book at your local library should just involve a simple web search.
But thanks to a US cataloguing site, that is far from the case
Tracey P. Lauriault