Other Library Catalogs

It is often useful or convenient to go to another library or to use the catalog of another library in building a bibliography on a particular topic within Afro American Studies. Below you are some commonly used library catalog links.

UMass Amherst Catalog | Four College Catalog

BLC Gateway This link leads you to the catalogs of the Boston Library Consortium (BLC), a cooperative association of sixteen academic and research libraries, mostly located in the Boston area, but also including UMass Amherst and Brown University. BLC Cards are used to gain access to, and to borrow from, member libraries of the consortium. BLC Cards are available to faculty, staff and students of UMass Amherst by contacting the Circulation department at 413-545-2622.
BLC Union List of Serials Includes all the journals in the Boston Library Consortium. You can use it to locate journals that UMass Amherst does not own.

Center for Research Libraries A catalog of over 500, 000 items from an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities, and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. Provides access to many unique and unusual collections.

CW/MARS A network of public, academic, school, regional, and special libraries in Central and Western Massachusetts.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture A national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. Located in New York, NY, contains over 5,000,000 items.

Library of Congress The Library of Congress Online Catalog contains approximately 12 million entries representing books, serials, computer files, manuscripts, cartographic materials, music, sound recordings, and visual materials.

Virtual Catalog Allows library users to search multiple library catalogs simultaneously. UMass Amherst students, faculty, and staff with a valid IDmay also request books online while in the Virtual Union Catalog. When the book is ready for pickup at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library Charge Out Desk, the user will receive an email notice.

WorldCat Also known as OCLC Online Union Catalog, contains the merged catalogs of libraries around the world, making it the world's largest database of bibliographic information. WorldCat houses over 46 million bibliographic records.