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

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

Boston Library Consortium pilots Innovation Fund to support Communities of Interest, Working Groups, and Committees

October 27, 2020 —The Boston Library Consortium (BLC) has established the BLC Innovation Fund to support and enrich the activities of our Communities of Interest, Working Groups, and Committees through the remainder of the 2020-21...

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Presidential Grant from the Davis Educational Foundation strengthens partnership with the Open Education Network

October 14, 2020 —Through a generous grant from the Davis Educational Foundation , the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) is launching a one-year pilot of OpenBLC to support faculty adoption of open educational resources (OER) across...

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Member Events

February 26, 2021

Meeting

BLC Access Services COI - Virtual Meeting

The BLC Access Services COI will hold a virtual meeting with the Co-Chairs of the BLC's Controlled Digital Lending Working Group on Friday, February 26th frm 10am-11:30am. The agenda and login information will be distributed via the COI's list-serv.

March 01, 2021

Meeting

BLC CRMMM COI March 2021 Meeting

The BLC's Continuing Resources and Metadata Management COI will hold a virtual meeting on Monday, March 1st, at 10:00am. The agenda and login information will be shared via the list-serv.

March 15, 2021

Meeting

BLC Heads of Resource Management Committee March Meeting

The BLC's Heads of Resource Management Committee will hold a meeting on Monday, March 15th from 1:00pm to 2:30pm. The agenda and login information will be distributed via the Committee's list-serv.

March 16, 2021

Meeting

BLC Business COI Monthly Meeting - March 2021

The BLC Business COI will hold its March monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 16th from 10am-11am. The agenda and login details will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

March 23, 2021

Symposium

BLC Technology COI Virtual Spring Meeting 2021

The BLC’s Technology Community of Interest will hold an informal virtual Spring meeting for open discussions and knowledge sharing on library technology topics. The event is free and open to all BLC members.

When: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 2-4pm Eastern Time

Registration: please fill out this short Google form by March 19th

Agenda (draft, subject to change, participants can suggest additional topics via the registration form):

Welcome – Yueqing Chen and Emily Singley, Co-Chairs
COI Business: 2021 Tech Survey results – Viral Amin / Kara Hart / Matt Sylvain
Open discussion / knowledge sharing around Covid impact on library services, user expectations, and support for online learning; Post-pandemic considerations
Interesting library technology projects and innovations
- OpenAthens
- Lean Library
Discussion and planning for COI initiatives
- Connect the inventory to other institutional data including data produced by the library? E.g. ILS and FTE, or discovery system and library transactions
- Support for next-gen resource sharing and controlled digital lending (CDL): ReSHARE, Rapido, Alma-D, Tipasa, etc.