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Local catalog: Five Colleges Library Catalog
Members of Five Colleges:
Verify information about an item not held at the Five Colleges Library Catalog or look for additional materials on your topic by checking in other library catalogs. If you find an item that you would like to use which is not available in the Five Colleges Library Catalog, request the item through the UMass Interlibrary Loan Service. Staff will obtain the item from another library, and notify you when it is ready for pick-up.
WorldCat, also known as the OCLC Online Union Catalog, contains the merged records of catalogs of libraries around the world, making it the world's largest database of bibliographic information. WorldCat contains over 46 million bibliographic records for all types of materials, not just books. Note: Available on campus or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, faculty, and staff with an OIT account; enter your OIT username and password when prompted.
The CW/MARS catalog for the network of public, academic, school, regional, and special libraries in Central and Western Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Library Directory are helpful if you wish to search for materials in nearby libraries. The locations, hours, and policies of local public libraries, Jones in Amherst and the Forbes in Northampton, may come in handy.
The BLC Gateway leads to the catalogs of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC), a cooperative association of nineteen academic and research libraries located in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, including UMass Amherst. Faculty, staff, and students of UMass Amherst may request a BLC card from the Circulation department on the Entry Level of the W.E.B. Du Bois Library (413-545-2622). With a BLC card, users may visit and borrow from member libraries of the consortium.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers, journals, documents, archives and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. These resources are available to students, faculty, staff, and community members to borrow through interlibrary loan and electronic delivery.
The University of California Libraries Catalog (Melvyl) contains records for materials (books, journals, movies, maps, music scores and recordings, computer files, dissertations, government documents, etc.) held by the libraries of the nine UC campuses, Hastings College of the Law, the California Academy of Sciences, the California Historical Society, the Center for Research Libraries, the Graduate Theological Union, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. All publication dates are included. The database contains over 23,000,000 records, and most campuses update their holdings on a weekly basis.
The Harvard University Library catalog allows you to search over 11 million items in the collections of the Harvard libraries. Interlibrary loan and walk-in borrowing privileges are limited.
The Library of Congress contains approximately 12 million records representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, maps, music, sound recordings, and visual materials.
The British Library's collection of over 150 million items covers every age and place of written civilization from unique historical documents to the latest information sources for business, industry, and research. This website describes their collections and wide range of services for tracking down and accessing information.
The National Library Catalogues Worldwide gateway allows you to search online catalogs of national libraries from all over the world. Catalogs are generally written in language(s) native to the home country.
For questions or comments about this page, email the Reference Web Manager.
Last updated: 091307.
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