Finding Books

FRANCIS
The Williams College Libraries' online catalog contains all the books and other materials that the Libraries purchase. Use it to search for a specific author or title or to compile a bibliography on a specific topic. Williams uses Library of Congress Subject Headings. To find books on a particular subject, use the Keyword search option. Then look at the subjects under which it has been cataloged to find additional items on the subject.

BLC Virtual Catalog
The combined catalog of many of the Boston Library Consortium Libraries, including Brown, Boston University, Northeastern University, the UMass system, Tufts, the Marine Biological Laboratory/Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institution, Wellesley, and Williams. It also includes the Boston Public Library. You may request books that are not available at Williams through the Virtual Catalog. If the requested item is on the shelves at another BLC library, it will normally be delivered in three to five working days.

WorldCat
The combined catalog of more than 9,000 libraries in the U.S. and around the world. Most books located in WorldCat can be requested through ILLiad (interlibrary loan).