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Other Library CatalogsIt 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 English Language Literature. You may request items through our Interlibrary Loan service. Below you will find commonly used library catalog links. Quick Links:UMass Catalog | Four College Catalog | Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies Catalog BLC Catalog - The Boston Library Consortium consists of 16 libraries, most in the Greater Boston area, but also including UMass Amherst and Brown University. This page serves as a gateway to the library catalog of each institution, and also includes a link to the Union List of Serials, a combined catalog of every magazine and journal held by these libraries. Faculty, staff and students of UMass Amherst may request a BLC card from the Circulation department on the Entrance 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. British Library - Collections of over 150 million items. This website describes their collections and wide range of services for tracking down and accessing information. C/W MARS - A group of libraries in Central and Western Massachusetts, including several in the Amherst area and the Pioneer Valley. 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. Electronic Text Center - The Electronic Text Center plus is an immense collection of full-text works from hundreds of authors within various genres of American Literature. Harvard
University Libraries - Online catalogs allow you to search over 11
million items in the collections of the Harvard libraries. Interlibrary
loan and walk-in borrowing privileges are limited. Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies - Located at 650 East Pleasant Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, combines an amiable atmosphere for study, writing, seminars and community events with extensive resources for the study of Renaissance culture and life. The Center houses a library of over 16,000 manuscripts, rare books, and monographs focusing on Renaissance studies. The collection supports general research into all aspects of the English and Continental Renaissance (1400-1700), in addition to selected areas of special focus. Massachusetts Virtual Catalog - Formed by five Massachusetts Regional Library systems, this can be a useful tool for identifying items outside the UMass/Four College catalog. 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. Virtual Union 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. |
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