Boston Library Consortium

For Librarians

The Boston Library Consortium offers services to librarians at member libraries ranging from resource sharing and e-resource licensing to professional development and programming on issues of importance to academic and research libraries.

For Students, Scholars & Researchers

Those affiliated with the Full Member libraries of the Boston Library Consortium can take advantage of access to and borrowing of materials from these libraries.

Our Members

University of Massachusetts Lowell
University of Massachusetts Medical School
University of New Hampshire
Northeastern University
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Boston College
Bentley University
Boston University
University of Rhode Island
Wesleyan University
Tufts University
State Library of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Boston
Williams College
Wellesley College
University of Connecticut
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Brandeis University
Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

BLC Special Collections and Health Sciences Librarians Respond to COVID-19

Librarians across the BLC membership continue to support faculty and students during the current pandemic. Special collections and health sciences librarians are thinking through the ways in which it is appropriate to archive and provide...

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Resource Sharing and the BLC

During this time of uncertainty and rapidly shifting information, ILL librarians at member institutions should update and check the Resource Sharing COI's list-serv and wiki for changes in lending/borrowing activities within the BLC. The Resource...

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Member Events

August 05, 2020

Symposium

Science Librarianship in the Time of COVID-19: A Virtual Half-Day Conference

Since March 2020, science librarianship has rapidly evolved to meet changing needs as well as to comply with social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the challenges of working and adapting to the so-called “new normal” of the COVID-19 era? What are the hacks, methods, or activities that you have designed or created to meet the new needs of library patrons and users? What do you anticipate evolving in the future of academic librarianship? In particular, we are interested in how remote work has informed changes to reference services, pedagogy, outreach, and practice.

The BLC Engineering and Chemistry COIs invite proposals for 15 minute presentations that feature a developed idea or question OR for 5 minute lighting talks that address a brief topic or question.

Submit your 300 word of less proposal via the link below by Saturday, June 20th.

Submit a Proposal!

June 08, 2020

Meeting

BLC Access Services COI Virtual Meeting

The BLC Access Services COI will hold a virtual meeting on Monday, June 8th from 10:00am-11:30am. The agenda and login instructions will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

June 11, 2020 to June 12, 2020

Meeting

Meeting of the BLC Board of Directors and Annual Retreat