Wayfinder, the new Catalog of Washington Libraries, is now live

Wayfinder, the Catalog of Washington Libraries, launched on April 14, 2008. The catalog provides a single search for locating materials owned by the major Washington libraries, with the eventual goal of including all of Washington’s libraries.

The Wayfinder catalog contains information on the collections of over 250 Washington public, academic, government, law, medical, corporate, special and tribal libraries. Combined, these libraries hold over 36.75 million items in all formats: books, periodicals (magazines, newspapers and journals, etc.), movies, CDs and DVDs, digital objects (such as electronic documents, subscription research databases, or historical items that have been scanned and made available on the Web), books in audio and large print formats, and much more.

Increasingly, people are finding their information through the Internet. Providing Wayfinder through the web is part of a larger movement among libraries to meet the needs of individuals where they are – whether they are in a library or accessing library information through the Internet from their homes or offices.

To learn more, visit the Wayfinder Web site.

(2008 05 06)