Online Catalogs
Online Public Access Catalogs (or OPACs) contain information about materials owned by a given library or libraries. Most catalogs have information about books and media. Some also contain information about the periodical holdings of a library.
- California Digital Library (CDL) - includes Melvyl, catalog of the nine-campus University of California system and the Periodicals database of periodicals in California academic, public and private libraries. Telnet access to Melvyl.
- Marin County and City Public Libraries - Marinet also provides access to the North Bay Cooperative Library System (Napa, Sonoma, Solano county public and academic libraries) through Supersearch.
- San Francisco Public Library - catalog of materials at San Francisco Public Library
- San Francisco State University (SFSU) - InvestiGator, catalog for San Francisco State University Library.
- Sonoma State University - Snoopy, catalog for Sonoma State University Library.
- University of California at Berkeley (UCB) - Choose either Telnet or Pathfinder access to Gladis, catalog for the 25+ University of California Berkeley libraries.
- University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) - catalog for UCSF library and services
- Stanford University Libraries - Socrates, catalog for Stanford University Libraries.
- Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite - Digital collections and services.
- College and University Libraries in California - plus special national libraries
- Library of Congress - Catalog and a variety of information about materials from its vast collections.
