[MR] ISO book 10000 years of middle eastern dress

[Tracie Brown]

Are you sure of the title? A search of Worldcat (1.5 billion items in over 10,000 libraries worldwide) shows nothing by that title, or even anything with "middle eastern dress" in the title.  Where did you find out about it?

However, go to http://www.worldcat.org/  Using the search strings middle eastern dress and middle eastern costume will return a number of potentially useful books and other resources. Click on the title of a likely book (say, Women's costume of the Near and Middle East) and on the right hand side of the book's listing are Library of Congress subject headings. Click on them and there will appear more relevant titles.  Also on each title's page, there is a box to enter your zip code.  This will return a list of libraries that own the title, starting with the closest library.  Your local public library, as well as any academic library where you have borrowing privileges, can request to borrow a copy for you via Inter-Library Loan.  In some cases, the lending library may restrict your use of a rare or really really expensive book to within the library you borrowed through, but I've only run into this a couple of times.

Worldcat is not the Internet time-sink that TV Tropes is, but sometimes it comes close.

Regarding academic libraries -- you may not need to be affiliated with the institution to obtain borrowing privileges, especially with state universities.  Enquire of your nearest university library about their policies for outside borrowers.  For instance, here are the policies for Clemson University:  http://www.clemson.edu/library/services/circulation/commborrow.html
and the University of Virginia:  http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/policies/circulation_policy.html
Note: not all academic libraries offer Inter-Library Loan to outside borrowers, so you may need to go back to your local library for that.

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-- Signy