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

Red Tape on Videotape: Legal Issues in the Preservation of VHS Collections

Over the last few years, the BLC's Media COI has led a collaborative effort with the Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic to address the avenues open to libraries who, faced with deteriorating VHS collections, are...

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BLC Forum

https://blc.org/news-events/blc-forum-2021 The BLC is taking Networking Day virtual in 2021 with BLC Forum!

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Member Events

August 13, 2021

Training

Participatory, Inclusive, and Anti-Oppressive Facilitation in Action: An Interactive Workshop

The ways that meetings are run and decisions are made in organizations are inextricably tied to privilege, power, and inclusion/exclusion. This active session will begin with facilitators leading participants through a reflective exercise to identify and name areas of personal privilege. Facilitators will then guide participants in connecting power dynamics to group behaviors that typically play out during conventional meetings and decision-making processes.

Participants will leave the session with multiple practical takeaways— guidelines, strategies, and resources—for participatory processes that move meetings and decision-making forward while leaving emotional and intellectual space for us to bring our best work to our organizations. Participants will end the session by crafting a short commitment statement for identifying changes to make in their own library contexts, regardless of their role in participating in, or facilitating, meetings and decisions.

Facilitators

Elizabeth Galoozis, Head of Information Literacy, University of Southern California

Nicole Brown, Head, Instruction Services Division, University of California, Berkeley