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The Libraries
Amherst: Robert Frost Library
Hampshire: Harold F. Johnson Library Center
Mount Holyoke: Williston, Miles-Smith, and Dwight complex
Smith: Neilson Library
University: W.E.B. Du Bois Library
Librarians'
Council
Sherre L. Harrington, Librarian of the College, Amherst
Gai Carpenter, Director of Library and Information Services, Hampshire
Susan Perry, Director of Library, Information, and Technology Services,
Mount Holyoke
Chris Loring, Director of Libraries, Smith
Jay Schafer, Director, University
Library
Lorna M. Peterson, Five College Coordinator
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8,000,000
books!
Plus, videos, audio tapes, and more.
Each of the libraries has distinctive
collections, most of which are broadly accessible for use by students
and faculty. Extensive and long-standing cooperation among the libraries
also gives researchers access to their combined strength, which currently
totals some 8 million volumes. In addition to open borrowing privileges,
members of the Five College community may search the collections and even
place a borrowing request online.
Automated
Library Search
The five libraries have an integrated, automated system that provides
a unified catalog of their collections. The on-line catalog also provides
information on circulation status, periodical holdings, and titles currently
on order. Within the on-line public access catalog of the Five College
library system, University holdings are in one database, while the holdings
of the four colleges are in another. Both databases are accessible from
any terminal or PC on either system. In carrying out a search, users may
switch easily between the two databases and may replicate a search from
one to the other. Internet (Telnet) access is available at fclibr.library.umass.edu
(the four college database) and umlibr.library.umass.edu
(for the University database). Links to the catalog are also available
on each library's home page.
FCD: Online Borrowing
Since the spring of 1997, users of the Five College automated library
system can now locate a book and then place a borrowing request electronically.
FCD, as the Five College Delivery service is called, will then see that
the material requested, if available, is delivered to the borrower's home
library.
Five
College Depository
The Librarians' Council is currently developing a common depository
for specified serials in the collections of the Five Colleges. With a
projected capacity of 340,000 volumes, the new Five College Depository
will provide scholars with ease of access to complete runs of specified
serials while also freeing shelf space for acquisitions. Housed in a portion
of an underground facility
owned by Amherst College, the shared facility will offer both an on-site
space where scholars may consult materials as well as copying services
that can be requested through inter-library loan.
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