How to discover if your books are in libraries, bookstores

Researching libraries is easier than bookstores

If you have written a book, you probably want it to get into a bookstore to be sold. But getting it into a library might be more important since it will likely be there much longer, perhaps even for posterity. Or as long as humans exist, which could be for a limited number of days.

How can you tell if your book is in a library? One way is to do a search on your name at WorldCat here. The online resource tracks catalogs of libraries worldwide. I was slightly…