Bartlesville Public Library

Library patrons have become accustomed to Bartlesville Public Library and LFH providing interlibrary loan borrowing services to our patrons. Thanks to the statewide site licensure of the international bibliographic utility, OCLC, that became effective October 1st, we now can request copies of articles from genealogical journals, many difficult to find, at no or nominal cost from OCLC libraries. The HeritageQuest PERSI database, available in LFH and remotely to BPL patrons online 24/7, is an index to genalogical literature leading to the citations LFH staff need to request interlibrary loans.

If you would like to explore the over 1.4 billion records in OCLC to see libraries worldwide that own what you are looking for, go to www.worldcat.org and enter the desired title.

While LFH staff is still learning some of the finer points of placing OCLC interlibrary loans requests, we have been successful in obtaining articles and encourage patrons to use this wonderful new resource to meet their research needs.