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Worldcat is very useful. I came across it while working in a college library. There is a lot of controversy among librarians over it, because Worldcat apparently wants to control all the libraries and how they put their information out. A very weird fight, but worldcat is definitely useful. It came in handy earlier this year when I wanted to get ahold of a book called RImjingang, which was the first English language publication of a special magazine on North Korean human rights abuses. At first only military institutions were buying copies. As soon as I looked in Worldcat and saw that a copy was at a regular library, I pounced and demanded a copy from the local librarians.

Anyway, the point of my rambling is that if people look there, they can see any library in the whole US that has copies of Welsh-authored and centered books. And if we could manage to keep those in constant circulation, libraries are going to have to buy more of them.

Something to consider is Worldcat.org. If you can get one library that is part of Worldcat.org (And I'm pretty sure that is all libraries nowadays), then it will show up there. If someone else wants to borrow that book, their library can do an inter-library loan request. If enough people request the book, more copies may be ordered at different libraries. So the first thing would be to get some books into a few libraries, and the second would be to create more demand and thus more libraries would want to buy copies.

Are most of the users on this site from Portland? If they are spread across the US, and are dedicated, then I think you've got quite a shot. If most are situated in Portland, then Portland has a good chance of changing but I doubt the rest of the US would follow suit.