Boston Library Consortium

For Librarians and Library Staff

The Boston Library Consortium offers services to librarians and staff 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

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

CDL Co-Op Releases Statement on Using Controlled Digital Lending as a Mechanism for Interlibrary Loan

Boston Library Consortium joins other consortia, libraries, organizations, and individuals to endorse the CDL Co-Op 'Statement on Using Controlled Digital Lending as a Mechanism for Interlibrary Loan'.

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Cover of 'Consortial CDL: Implementing Controlled Digital Lending as a Mechanism for Interlibrary Loan'

Boston Library Consortium to implement controlled digital lending for interlibrary loan

New report released as resource for other libraries and consortia

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Member Events

December 10, 2021

Webinar

BLC Business Librarianship Speaker Series: How to research what doesn't exist (yet): a hands-on workshop for librarians supporting local entrepreneurs

This active learning workshop will consider the scenario of a New England-area entrepreneur opening a business for a local market.Participants will cover four common research needs of entrepreneurs:•industry identification and analysis, •market identification and sizing, •competitive intelligence, and •financial benchmarking. The workshop will focus on free resources, including annual Census demographic and industry data, but will also incorporate a few well-known commercial databases such as DataAxle and SimplyAnalytics.

About the Presenter:

Steve Cramer is the entrepreneurship librarian for UNC Greensboro, an urban, social mobility campus at which social entrepreneurship and cross-campus (ex. arts) entrepreneurship are particularly popular. He also serves as a Coleman Fellow for Entrepreneurship Education and a co-chair of the Entrepreneurship and Libraries Conference.

About the BLC Business Librarianship Speaker Series:

The Business Series is organized by Business COI member Alison Messier (UMass Amherst) and Co-Chairs Edward Junhao Lim (UConn) and Wendy Pothier (UNH), with financial support from the BLC Innovation Fund. To see the full list of presenters and topics, visit the Series webpage.

January 28, 2022

Webinar

BLC Business Librarianship Speaker Series: Free Business Sources for New England

In this workshop, Jennifer will introduce you to New England-specific sources in the public domain from the federal government, open access from states, and a few commercially available data sources. Make sure you are using a laptop or workstation, so you can apply search strategies and customize the handouts for your community. By the end of our time, you will be going beyond the Census to describe your community'sbusiness environment or help your entrepreneurs and researchers.

About the Presenter:

Jennifer Boettcher is the Business Reference Librarian at Georgetown University since 1997. She was formerly Business Librarian at Texas A&M University and Head of Reference at the National SBDC Center Research Network. She got her BA in Art History degree at UNH-Durham, MLS at SUNY-Albany, and MBA at Georgetown. Her research focuses on open data from government sources and industry research. She co-authored, with Leonard Gaines, Industry Research Using the Economic Census: How to Find It, How to Use It (Greenwood Press, 2004) and has written widely on the NAICS classification system and OpenData.

About the BLC Business Librarianship Speaker Series: