Use your Northern Seminary Single Sign On credentials (your Northern Seminary email address and password) to login to your library account. From any library online catalog page or any I-Share catalog page, click on the link in the upper right corner:

The first time that you use SSO with either I-Share or the Northern Seminary Library Online Catalog, you will be asked to provide your library barcode number in order to establish your Library Catalog Profile:

If you do not have a library barcode on the back of your Northern Seminary ID card, please contact the library at 630-620-2156 or library@seminary.edu in order to request your library barcode number.

Once you have established your Library Catalog Profile, you will be able to place requests for I-Share items, view and renew items that you have checked out, and see if you owe any library fines or fees:

Online Library Account

Alumni, ACTS, Atla, or Community Borrowers:

Alumni, students from Chicago-area ACTS libraries, students from other Atla Reciprocal Borrowing schools, or Community Borrowers will not be able to use SSO to access their library account. There is a separate link that lets you login with the barcode from your library-supplied borrower card:

Please also note that while Alumni, ACTS, Atla, and Community Borrowers have access to resources from the Lisle campus library, they are not able to borrow materials from the I-Share system.