{"id":8834,"date":"2021-05-27T10:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T14:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/?page_id=8834"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:17:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T16:17:34","slug":"visit-bti-or-blc-libraries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/for-students\/visit-bti-or-blc-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit BTI or BLC Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a member of the Boston University School of Theology community, you are eligible for visitor borrowing privileges at a number of libraries around New England:<\/p>\n<h4>Borrow In-Person from BC, Northeastern, and Brandeis Libraries using just your BU ID<\/h4>\n<p>Through agreements with Boston College, Northeastern University, and Brandeis University, <strong>all BU students, faculty, and staff can borrow directly<\/strong> from those universities&#8217; libraries using just their <strong>BU ID (Terrier Card)<\/strong>, like you would checking out an item at our library. Furthermore, when those items are due, no need to trek all the way back to the library from which you borrowed the item; just drop the book off at Mugar Library&#8217;s book return! Remember that all due dates are set by the lending institution and we are unable to take care of fines or renew items for you.<\/p>\n<h4>Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium (BTI) Borrowing<\/h4>\n<p>The Boston University School of Theology is a member of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostontheological.org\/\">Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium<\/a><\/strong> (BTI), which is a partnership of ten different schools of theology in the Boston area. Through this partnership, all current BU School of Theology students, faculty, and staff, as well as students in the Division of Religious and Theological Studies, are able to borrow at all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostontheological.org\/libraries\"><strong>BTI<\/strong> <strong>libraries<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Please visit each library&#8217;s website view their borrowing policies; you are responsible directly to the BTI library for any overdue fines, lost, or damaged materials.<\/p>\n<h5>Opt-In to BTI Borrowing<\/h5>\n<p>To borrow at BTI Libraries, simply \u201copt-in\u201d to BTI Borrowing on the BTI Portal! If creating a new account, visit <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostontheological.org\/btiportal\">www.bostontheological.org\/btiportal<\/a><\/strong> and fill out the New Students form. Simply check the box at the bottom of the form asking if you wish to borrow from other BTI Libraries. <b>Allow 2-3 business days for approval by the registrar and the BTI<\/b>. You only need to complete this step once. Through the rest of your program, you will be eligible to borrow at all BTI Libraries.<\/p>\n<div id=\"text-8\" class=\"widget widget_text widget-1\">\n<p>If you already have an account, at the BTI portal, you need to \u201copt-in\u201d to borrow at BTI Libraries. Log into your BTI Portal account, and click on the link \u201cLibrary Sign-Up.\u201d Click on the link \u201cClick Here to Opt-in for Borrowing at BTI Libraries.\u201d On the next screen, hit \u201cEdit Item\u201d on the top left of the page, and check the box saying \u201cI wish to Opt-in for Borrowing at BTI Libraries.\u201d Click submit, and you\u2019re done!<\/p>\n<p>Once you have finished &#8220;opting in,&#8221; you will be able to register a patron account at the circulation desk of any BTI library, presenting only your BU ID.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Note:<\/strong><em> All BU students can check out items at BC Libraries simply using only your BU ID (Terrier Card). No need to opt-in. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> <em>The BTI does not grant access to Harvard&#8217;s Widener Library.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"widget widget_text\" id=\"text-8\">\n<div id=\"text-8\" class=\"widget widget_text widget-1\">\n<h5>Returning BTI Books<\/h5>\n<p>Items checked out at another BTI library can be returned to the BU School of Theology Library circulation desk. You <strong><em>must <\/em><\/strong>sign the BTI return log (in a red binder) upon returning these items at the Theology Library circulation desk during business hours; do not return BTI materials in the book drop.\u00a0BTI books from other libraries returned to the School of Theology Library are returned by courier to their home institution. This process may take about a week. Overdue notices may still be sent out between a BTI book&#8217;s return to our library and the date when it finally reaches the originating library, but any fines should be waived when the book arrives.<\/p>\n<h4>Boston Library Consortium (BLC) Borrowing<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>BU graduate students, faculty, and staff are able to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/services\/ill\/blc-cards\/\">apply online for a Boston Library Consortium (BLC) Card<\/a><\/strong> through BU&#8217;s Mugar Memorial Library. The BLC card allows you to borrow books from any member library of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blc.org\/members\/\">Boston<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blc.org\/members\/\"> Libra<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blc.org\/members\/\">ry<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blc.org\/members\/\"> Consortium<\/a><strong>. <\/strong>Borrowing lengths, fines, etc. all set by lending institution, and you must return items at the library from which they were borrowed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0You <strong>do not need<\/strong> BLC privileges to borrow at <strong>BC<\/strong>, <strong>Northeastern<\/strong>, or <strong>Brandeis.<\/strong>\u00a0You just need your BU ID.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a member of the Boston University School of Theology community, you are eligible for visitor borrowing privileges at a number of libraries around New England: Borrow In-Person from BC, Northeastern, and Brandeis Libraries using just your BU ID Through agreements with Boston College, Northeastern University, and Brandeis University, all BU students, faculty, and staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1587,"featured_media":0,"parent":4189,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10181,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8834\/revisions\/10181"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sthlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}