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== Description ==
Suppose you're shopping on Amazon for a book like Lawrence Lessig's '''[http://www.amazon.com/Free-Culture-Technology-Control-Creativity/dp/1594200068 Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity]''', and you wonder if your local library has a copy of the book. Amazon displays the '''<abbr title='ISBN is an International Standard Book Number. ISBNs are 10-digit or 13-digit codes used by the publishing industry to uniquely identify individual book titles and editions. Some 10-digit ISBNs may end with an "X" instead of a digit.'>ISBN</abbr> ''' near the title or product details. Highlight the ISBN, and click "Search MVLC" in your toolbar. Presto, you're looking at the search results for that book / CD at your local library!  == How it works ==The catalog for the [http://www.mvlc.org/Libraries Merrimack Valley Library Consortium] supports lookup by ISBN. If you perform the search, you'll notice that the resulting URL for that search is
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http://newburyport.mvlc.org/eg/opac/record/888792?contains=contains;_special=1;qtype=identifier%7Cisbn;query=978-1594200069;locg=1
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