Boston Library Consortium Cards

Boston Library Consortium (BLC) Cards are used to gain access and to borrow material directly from libraries in the BLC.  UMass Lowell faculty, staff and students with library accounts in good standing may register for BLC cards at the circulation desks of Lydon and O’Leary Libraries.  A current UML ID is required to obtain a BLC card.   

These cards allow users to open accounts with the other BLC libraries.  Users are subject to the rules of the libraries at which they use their BLC cards, including fines for overdue or lost items or recalls.

It is the borrower’s responsibility to return items borrowed with a BLC card to the library from which they were borrowed.  The University Libraries do accept responsibility for returning items borrowed in this manner.

BLC Libraries

Boston College
Boston Public Library
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brown University
Marine Biological Laboratory & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Massachusetts Institution of Technology
Northeastern University
State Library of Massachusetts
Tufts University
University of Connecticut
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Boston
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
University of Massachusetts Lowell
University of Massachusetts Medical Center
University of New Hampshire
Wellesley College
Williams College