The following is a quick list to get new faculty and graduate students/teaching fellows started using the Boston College Libraries.

About the Libraries

• Location information and descriptions
• Collection information including digitized and special collections

The Collections

• Holmes One Search, the Library’s new discovery tool.  Get full-text article access in BC’s databases. Connect to e-book collections not available via Quest and take advantage of web 2.0 options—write reviews and tag items
• Quest Catalog for traditional catalog searching for all Boston College library collections, print and electronic.
• Databases
• E-journals 

Fill in the gaps: when it’s not in the collections or not on-site

• Recommend/Order Materials
• Talk with the appropriate subject specialist about monies reserved for new faculty purchases
• Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
• Use the collections at one of the Libraries in the Boston Library Consortium (BLC). Get a borrower’s card at the O’Neill Library circulation desk. Or, the Boston Theological Institute (BTI).
• Collections off-site

Getting the collections  

• BC ID is your library card
• Convenient hours 
• Circulation policies
• Locate and copy
• Locate feature in Quest and Holmes locates book for you within the O’Neill Library, can text call number to your phone. Request materials from TML online – ask at O’Neill Circulation Desk for information.

Research support

• Use your Quest Account or Holmes One Search account to set automated alerts for new titles received on your subject.
• Use the Libraries' databases
• RSS feed for new items added to the collections (only available by broad discipline)
• Set up automated/e-alerts from databases
• Manage citations and bibliographies 
• Download the LibX Library Toolbar
• Use Document Services to locate print journal articles in the collection and makes copies (fee service)
• Dedicated space and workstations in Bapst Library for graduate students.

Course Support

• Course reserves and Blackboard
• Instruction for your course
• Media content
• Connors Family Learning Center for tutoring

Talk with us

• Phone, e-mail, 24/7 chat and soon texting!
• Talk about and share your new research
• Contribute to the Library Newsletter
• Scholarly Communication
• Submit copies of your publications or dissertation to eScholarship@BC, a digital repository of scholarly material produced by Boston College scholars and researchers. 

For Fun: MFA passes available at the O’Neill circulation desk