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

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

BLC Members in the News: Joanne Riley (UMass Boston) Named 2019 Bay State Legacy Award Recipient

Joanne Riley, Interim Dean of University Libraries, University of Massachusetts-Boston, has received the 2019 Bay State Legacy Award. The award is presented by the Massachusetts Historical Alliance to individuals who have "made an outstanding contribution...

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Networking Day 2019 Recording & Presentations Now Available

The 2019 BLC Networking Day was a great success. Staff from all nineteen member libraries attended a full day of engaging presentations and updates on the work of the BLC and its Communities of Interest...

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Member Events

July 24, 2019

Training

Ex Libris Solutions Day for the BLC

On Wednesday, July 24th, the BLC and Ex Libris will sponsor a vendor solutions day at the Boston College Theology and Ministry Library. The day will run from 10:00am to 3:45pm and will include updates on the following:

Ex Libris / Alma Update
Impacting Teaching & Learning with Leganto
Rialto, Transformative Selection
Esploro, a Next-generation Research Repository
Next-generation Resource Sharing

While this series of updates will likely be of most interest to the BLC libraries already using the Alma/Primo suite, we encourage others who may wish to learn more, particularly since products such as Esploro and the recently announced next-generation resource sharing services do not require Alma/Primo.

Registration for this event is now closed. Please contact Mei Mendez (mmendez@blc.org) to be placed on the wait list.

Event Agenda:

10:00am Ex Libris / Alma Update

11:00am Impacting Teaching & Learning with Leganto

Noon Lunch (provided by Ex Libris)

1:00pm Rialto, Transformative Selection

1:45pm Esploro, a Next-generation Research Repository

2:45pm Next-generation Resource Sharing

3:15pm Feedback / Q&A

3:45pm Adjournment

August 13, 2019

Meeting

BLC Resource Sharing COI Summer Meeting - Tufts University

The BLC Resource Sharing COI will hold its summer meeting on Tuesday, August 8th at Tufts University. Additional details will be shared via the COI's mailing list.

September 20, 2019

Meeting

Meeting of the BLC Board of Directors - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, MA

December 06, 2019

Meeting

Meeting of the BLC Board of Directors - University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

March 13, 2020

Meeting

Meeting of the BLC Board of Directors - Tufts University, Medford, MA

Registration for this event is now closed. Please contact Mei Mendez (mmendez@blc.org) to be placed on the wait list.

Event Agenda: