Access The Boston College Libraries are open to the public except during reading and exam periods. The Law Library is open to Boston College faculty, law students and staff, and those Boston College undergraduates and non-law school graduate students requiring use of materials from the library's collections. The hours for the individual libraries vary and are affected by holidays, inter-sessions, and exam periods. In general, the O'Neill Library is opened 110 hours per week and the Law Library is opened 105 hours per week.
Most libraries extend their hours during reading and exam periods.
O'Neill Library maintains a 24-hour study room during exam periods. Hours are maintained on the Libraries' web page and paper copies of hours are available to users at each library. Electronic Access to Services and Resources Library users can search the Boston College Libraries' online catalog and other library information sources through the Boston College Libraries' home page . In addition to searching, the BC community can take advantage of the electronic forms available to them for asking reference questions or performing circulation functions such as renewing books, requesting interlibrary loan services, photocopying or remote storage retrieval. In general, all Boston College students, faculty and staff are entitled to borrow materials from any of the Boston College Libraries, or the New England Deposit Library and the Kenny-Cottle Library, the Libraries' remote collections.