{"id":52,"date":"2025-12-18T14:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xlibrary\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:07:51","slug":"find-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xlibrary\/catalog\/find-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>As a member of CWMARS (Central and Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing), we share a catalog with over 150 libraries across the region. By default, your search will include items from all CWMARS libraries. You can request items from other libraries, and they\u2019ll be delivered to the GCC Library free of charge. To see only what\u2019s available at GCC, use the tabs on the results page to filter your search.<\/p>\n<h2>Ordering Books from UMass\u2013Amherst and Other Massachusetts Libraries<\/h2>\n<p>If you cannot find the material you'd like from CWMARS you can search the <a href=\"https:\/\/commonwealthcatalog.org\/?cid=massvc&amp;lid=MASSVC\">Commonwealth Catalog<\/a>, which consists of libraries across the state, including UMass. Items ordered through the Commonwealth Catalog can be delivered to GCC free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>If you still can't find what you are looking for, we can order it for you from libraries outside of this network. Email a librarian at <a href=\"mailto:library@gcc.mass.edu\">library@gcc.mass.edu<\/a> or call (413) 775-1831.<\/p>\n<h2>Search for eBooks<\/h2>\n<p>Please note you will need your\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/library\/cards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GCC Library card<\/a>\u00a0to access these from off-campus.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cwmars.overdrive.com\/\">OverDrive<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>The best place to search for popular and bestseller fiction and non-fiction. Both ebooks and downloadable audio books can be found here.<\/li>\n<li>Each copy of a \"book\" is checked out to one user at a time. You may place a hold on a book if it is not currently available; you will be notified by email when you are able to check it out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a member of CWMARS (Central and Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing), we share a catalog with over 150 libraries across the region. By default, your search will include items from all CWMARS libraries. You can request items from other libraries, and they\u2019ll be delivered to the GCC Library free of charge. To see only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":505477,"parent":505413,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505478,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/505478"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/xlibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}