Searching

I'm going to make a confession here.  Typically when I'm looking for a
library book for my own use, I will search for it (via Google) in
Amazon.com or Google Book Search. Then when I find it--which I almost
invariably do--I click on its ISBN, an action which automatically
triggers a search (via LibX and xISBN) in the local National University
Library catalog for that edition and any closely related editions.
While this strategy doesn't work for older in-copyright books (or the
dwindling number of contemporary books published without ISBNs), it
works in an overwhelming number of cases.  So much so that it's become
my default search strategy.

Ed Jones
National University (San Diego, Calif.)