In the course of researching the Slansky book for that little Reagan rant, I discovered that OCLC is presently open-testing a solution much like the thing I asked for back in January: a search of all its member libraries’ collections. You search for a book on Google [author, title did it for me] and look for the result called “Find in a Library” [the OCLC site says they are working with Google to get the “Find in a Library” results listed at or near the top]. So I posted about it on MeFi, because that’s what it’s for, and someone else chimed in with this, which is also brilliant and not subject to possible discontinuation at the end of the month.
