Worldcat is the name for the richest book database in the world. Librarians who subscribe to its parent database, OCLC, and can search it to determine for you where books and other items can be found in the world. You can also search it yourself via the web if you do not have a librarian handy.
If you have a vast topic to research, this is a good place to start. You can learn a lot just by reading the catalog records before you even have the books in hand. Some of what you learn can be used to either narrow your search, or hone your topic.
It is not fully intuitive. We will review some search strategies to make the best of it. The "open web" version is not as full of books as the one you can access with your NYPL card, so we will be searching that version.
Worldcat
http://www.worldcat.org/
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