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

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

Internet Archive Joins Boston Library Consortium

Launching pilot program to enable innovative resource sharing

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BLC Forum 2021

The BLC is taking Networking Day virtual in 2021 with BLC Forum!

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Member Events

May 11, 2021

Professional Development Alliance

NC Live Workshop: Getting Started with Tableau for Data Visualization

This workshop will provide a hands-on introduction to Tableau, a free tool for creating data visualizations. Its drag-and-drop interface provides tools to build a variety of visualizations with no coding required, and visualizations can be embedded in websites by copying and pasting embed code. In this workshop, participants will create an interactive dashboard together along with static charts. Resources will be shared to help attendees continue learning how to use this resource beyond the workshop.

Register Here!

No prior experience is required but attendees will need to download and install Tableau prior to the workshop: https://unc-libraries-data.github.io/Tableau/download.html

Presenter:

Lorin Bruckner, Data Visualization Services Librarian at UNC-Chapel Hill

May 12, 2021

Professional Development Alliance

ASERL Webinar: Universities Studying Slavery: Multi-Institutional Collaboration

The Universities Studying Slavery (USS) consortium, created and led by the University of Virginia, currently includes 78 institutions who are committed to research, acknowledgment, and atonement regarding institutional ties to the slave trade, to enslavement on campus or abroad, and to enduring racism in school history and practice. USS hosts semi-annual meetings to discuss strategies, collaborate on research, and learn from one another. The next conference is scheduled to be co-hosted by Guilford College, Greensboro, NC and Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, in Spring 2022.

Presenters:

Kami Chavis
Tim Pyatt

May 14, 2021

Meeting

BLC Access Services COI - Virtual Meeting

The BLC Access Services COI will hold a virtual meeting on Friday, May 14th from 10:00am-11:30am. The agenda and login information will be shared via the COI's list-serv.

May 17, 2021

Meeting

Heads of Resource Management Committee May Meeting

The Heads of Resource Management (HRM) Committee will hold a meeting on Monday, May 17th from 9:30am-11am. The agenda and login information will be shared via the HRM list-serv.

May 18, 2021

Professional Development Alliance

CARLI Workshop: Striving for Excellence, Achieving Perfection: What Went Wrong?

Leaders and team members aim to attain goals, to meet objectives, and please all of their stakeholders and employees along the way. This webinar will focus on a key leadership distinction: excellence versus perfection, and how a leader or team member’s overall effectiveness is influenced by how aware they are of their own inclination (and that of their team members) toward each dimension. The discussion will cover:

What does it mean to be an “excellent leader or team member” versus a “perfect leader or team member”? What happens to a team member or leader, and the organization they support when their journey toward excellence diverges to a quest for perfection?
How metrics and key performance indicators can work for, and against a team member or leader’s effectiveness. And, how might one shape these important measures to motivate toward excellence.
Coaching team members who may be seeing the pursuit of perfection as a surrogate for achieving excellence. How to help them view their own contributions through the lens of excellence, and to help them refocus their efforts and energy accordingly.

Presenter Garry Sanders is Principal, AssistLeadership, LLC and is an Executive Coach having earned a Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University, and the designation of Professional Certified Coach by The International Coaching Federation. He is coaching leaders and team members at universities, businesses, and government agencies around the United States. He says that he “practices imperfection daily.”