Access to the JKM Library
Current (including cross-registered) students, or staff or faculty members, at McCormick or LSTC:
The McCormick and LSTC registrars share lists of all new and cross-registered students, and new faculty members, with JKM at the start of each semester. We also try to keep up with new staff members as they join the seminaries.
Your access to all JKM Library resources, physical or electronic, is enabled using OpenAthens, our single-sign-on platform. This is the online equivalent of your library card.
JKM staff create (or update) library accounts and OpenAthens credentials as we are made aware of new (or returning, or cross-registered) library patrons at each institution.
(If you are already a student, or staff or faculty member, and don't have an OpenAthens login—or don't know what it is, or how to use it—please contact us, and we can help get you set up to use our resources!)
With your OpenAthens login, you can use our online catalog to place requests for books from JKM or any of the nearly 100 I-Share libraries throughout the state of Illinois. It also enables your access to all of JKM's ebooks and databases.
If you do not receive a "Welcome to the JKM Library" email from us at the start of your first semester, or if your OpenAthens login does not work, or stops working for any reason: please use your seminary email address to contact us at ihaveaquestion@jkmlibrary.org, and we will get you set up with everything you need!
Graduates of McCormick or LSTC:
Alumni of McCormick and LSTC are not eligible for an OpenAthens login. However, we do maintain separate access to select electronic resources to help support your ongoing work.
Please email JKM Library staff at ihaveaquestion@jkmlibrary.org, and we can send you the current usernames and passwords for these services.
Patrons of our partner libraries:
Since our downsizing and move to closed stacks in an access-controlled building in the summer of 2023, we unfortunately no longer have a physical space in which to welcome you.
The JKM Library currently operates strictly by delivery to the shared campus building at 5416 S. Cornell Ave., through ILDS to other I-Share and RAILS libraries, or through OCLC. Ask your librarians to work with us for ILL access!
Electronic resource access for patrons of other institutions is generally offered through physical access to the library, and its wifi. We do not currently have an alternate solution to this problem.
If you need access to our resources or library services, as a patron of another ACTS or I-Share library, or of the University of Chicago Libraries, please email us from your school email address at ihaveaquestion@jkmlibrary.org, and we will explore the options available to meet your needs!
