Library Services

Overview

The online library offers access to collections, services and programming that meet the needs of the college’s educational programs and facilitates effective use of information and acquisition of information literacy skills for all students, faculty and staff, regardless of where they are physically located or the modality by which they take their courses.

The online library collection includes over 100,000 eBooks, 20 online databases with access to full-text magazines, newspapers, and other resources and is accessed by current students through logging into the college’s Canvas portal and selecting the library from the navigational menu.

Library databases are both privately owned and available through Franklin Cummings Tech’s membership in the Massachusetts Library System, a state supported collaborative that fosters cooperation, communication, innovation and sharing among libraries of all types. Databases include: Ebsco’s Academic eBook Collection, Infobase Issues & Controversies and Today’s Science, Gale’s Academic Onefile, Business, Diversity Studies, Economics & Theory, Environmental Studies, General OneFile, Global Issues In Context , Health & Medicine, New York Times, Onefile Psychology, Religion & Philosophy, Vocations & Careers, Opposing Viewpoints in Context, Science in Context, Proquest’s Boston Globe, Taylor & Francis’ Sustainable Development Online.

Ask-A-Librarian is available for students to receive reference help from the college’s accredited librarian, and 24/7 access to accredited librarians is available via TutorMe. Through its partnership with the Boston Public Library students are provided a BPL library card during the first few weeks of classes, and are eligible to use the resources and facilities at the BPL central library and its branches.