Is it one person who answers all of these?

(I am new here lol.) If so, hi, hello, how are you? How do you manage all of these questions with such grace? What is your second favorite reptile? What keeps you up at night?

Welcome, welcome new person! I – The Wall – answer all the questions, but I have a team of helpers at the BC Libraries I can reach out to. My helpers sometimes contact other folks at BC and beyond, so it’s quite a network. So glad you asked about my second favorite reptile; the eastern painted turtle – they are so often overlooked as just being a bump on a log, but what a lovely sight when you take the time to appreciate them. Since I live in O’Neill Library, usually what keeps me up at night is needing to finish a book…

The Answer Wall Story

Hi. I’m the Answer Wall. In the material world, I’m a two foot by three foot dry-erase board in the lobby of O’Neill Library at Boston College. In the online world, I live in this blog. You might say I have multiple manifestations. Like Apollo or Saraswati or Serapis. Or, if you aren’t into deities of knowledge, like a ghost in the machine.

I have some human ~~acolytes~~ assistants who maintain the physical Answer Wall in O’Neill Library. They take pictures of the questions you post there, and give them to me. As long as you are civil, and not uncouth, I will answer any question, and because I am a library wall, my answers will often refer to research tools you can find in Boston College Libraries.

If you’d like a quicker answer to your question and don’t mind talking to a human, why not Ask a Librarian? Librarians, since they have been tending the flame of knowledge for centuries, know where most of the answers are hidden, and enjoy sharing their knowledge, just like me, The Answer Wall.