LibGuides: MLS Membership: School Membership

2025 Renewal Timeline

Timeline for the 2025/2026 School Renewal

Renewal form opens May 1st, 2025
Forms due May 15th, 2025
You will receive a confirmation receipt for your renewal form around May 16th 2025.
MLS staff will review Renewal Forms and update our records over the last two weeks of May 2025.
If we have questions regarding the responses to your renewal form you will be contacted by a member of our staff during the review period.
All schools will be notified about their membership status by May 27th, 2025.
The MLS Executive Board will vote to remove schools who have not met the membership requirements during their June 2025 meeting.
Schools that are removed from membership will begin to lose access to services on July 1st, 2025.

Popular with Schools

Shared SORA Program
Also known as the Commonwealth eBook Collection.
Find Your Database Links
Search the MBLC site for your schools authenticated database links.
Statewide Databases Guide
In partnership with the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC) and with additional funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Massachusetts Library System (MLS) provides access and support to a suite of both general reference and specialized statewide databases.
MassCat
Our online resource sharing network.
Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery
Borrowing and lending requests between one library to another facilitated by our Resource Sharing Team on behalf our member libraries.
MLS Learning Hub
Your destination for impactful, and accessible learning for excellence in library work.
MHEC - Purchasing Cooperative
The Massachusetts Library System is collaborating with the Massachusetts Higher Education Consortium (MHEC) to provide consortium pricing for library supplies and materials.

Membership for Schools

Virtual School Orientation

Letter for School Administrators

Do you need a letter for your School Administration to explain the importance of a School Librarian and the value of membership to the Massachusetts Library System? Download a generic version below.

If you would like a version of this letter dated and addressed to your School Administration please contact schools@masslibsystem.org

Letter for School Administration
Generic version

School Membership Renewal Form

To complete the School Membership Renewal form you will need your schools account number. If you did not receive an email with the renewal information and instructions please contact us using Schools@masslibsystem.org.

This form will close on May 16th, 2025.

School Membership Renewal Form

Important Notes

Important notes about the renewal process:

Your school's membership renewal will be effective from July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026.
Basic Membership to MLS is FREE.
The Mass. Library System is a separate entity from MSLA (Mass. School Library Association); your school’s membership to the Mass. Library System is unrelated to your MSLA membership.
If you are the librarian for multiple school libraries, you may receive multiple emails, you must submit a form for each school you are serving as the Librarian.
If you are retiring or leaving your position before July 1, 2025, we still need to hear from you. There will be a place on the form to share this information.
Failure to respond will result in your school’s removal from MLS Membership, the loss of custom link access to the statewide databases, and ineligibility for continued or new participation in the MLS Shared SORA Program.

MLS Membership: School Membership