v. important reference item

April 9th 2008 - 5 responses

The CIA’s library has a copy of “Danger Man” aka “Secret Agent.”

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P.S. I did some spy work on my own and noticed that the CIA’s holdings appear to not be in worldcat.org. Huh.

5 Comments

  1. caleb
    Posted 9 Apr 08 at 12:16 pm | Permalink

    perhaps the CIA library doesn’t pay for WorldCat?

  2. Aaron
    Posted 9 Apr 08 at 12:24 pm | Permalink

    ok so this might show a lack of knowledge but why would their holdings appear in worldcat when searched via firstsearch (the image above?)

    I dunno how worldcat.org works really.

  3. Kate
    Posted 11 Apr 08 at 11:29 am | Permalink

    I once read an article in American Libraries about the CIA library… *runs a search*

    Newlen, Robert R. “Fifty years of silent service: A peek inside the CIA library.” American Libraries. Apr98, Vol. 29 Issue 4, p62, 3p, 3c

  4. Aaron
    Posted 11 Apr 08 at 11:33 am | Permalink

    awesome! you are a good librarian! i’ll look it up :)

  5. Alex
    Posted 24 Apr 08 at 4:01 pm | Permalink

    great post! who knew the CIA would be in worldcat? I don’t know much about openworldcat vs fancy first search worldcat either so I poked around a bit. It looks like the CIA is actually listed in the results for that dvd in worldcat.org, but they sort their results by distance and first search by your home state and then alphabetically, so for me (being in CA) they came up as #38 and were on the 4th or 5th page of results. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49560789&tab=holdings&loc=91711&start_holding=31#tabs
    Now you’ve got me wondering what other things they’ve got in their library…

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