I'm sure librarians knew, but I didn't! One website that both of my classes this summer have talked about is WorldCat.org. It's a basically a library catalog that lets you search for books/DVDs/CDs/articles, and it will tell you what libraries *all over the world* have that item.
For instance, I searched for the book The Silver Curlew by Eleanor Farjeon, and it has listings in Australia, Singapore, Netherlands, UK, but the very first listing is one of my local library systems. The closest libraries are listed first and on to the farthest away ones. You can enter your own location to measure this, but it somehow already has one as default - not sure if it's based on IP address or what. How cool though?
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