Answering questions at Boston College O’Neill Library
If it’s worth it to both of you, you can make it work. It’s not easy, but communicate as much as possible (chat, phone, skype, write sweet long love letters in longhand) and save up for visits as often as possible. It helps to know if there’s an end to the separation in sight.
Participants in the Boston Pride Parade are volunteers, and groups need to sign up to march. It sounds like someone at BC needs to take the initiative to form the group and register with Boston Pride. Maybe you’re that person! You might also be interested in our Pride book display going on now in the lobby.
Get a recap of all the major announcements and news here: http://bit.ly/E3forBC
I’m sorry you’re down. If it’s just an ordinary sad feeling, I’d recommend staying busy, making sure to interact with people, and getting lots of fresh air in this finally lovely weather. But if you are feeling overwhelmed by the sadness, or it doesn’t go away, please consider contacting Counseling Services (bit.ly/BC-counseling), They can help!
Comfortably numb. But seriously, it’s not about me; it’s distant family member. I’d rather work toward uniting people than isolating them.
A T-Rex
Balfour makes championship rings for most collegiate sports and seem to have a much tighter grasp on the college market as a whole than Jostens does. FWIW, Balfour is a local company (headquartered in Attleboro), and you’re supporting MA business by getting a class ring from them.
Doubtful. Where would he hide it? Some of my assistants have a good view of the back of St. Mary’s and the garage roof behind it. There is no Maserati there. Nor have they seen the secret door on the back of St. Mary’s open in years.
Thanks for the visit! Bye, best of luck with everything, and hope to see you again soon & hear about your adventures!
Hopefully they’re looking at our online blog for the reply! You can check it out too at library.bc.edu/answerwall
Great minds think alike! Yes, they can see the answer on the blog: library.bc.edu/answerwall. And you’re right, a goodbye message doesn’t always need a reply, but when the goodbye is public, a reply is nice. The sender might not see it, but others will, and there’s never harm in spreading good will.
You mean human dude? Hmmm… I’m usually thinking more about other walls whose looks I admire from afar. Handsome dude, handsome dude… Well, there’s a guy by the name of Ignatius who hangs out on the other side of Devlin Hall, he cuts a fine figure, don’t you think? He seems popular. I certainly see a lot of people lounging near him on warm days.
Enough to give credit to everyone who helped you achieve something, even yourself.
It is a lot quieter in summer, but there are still things going on. Check out bit.ly/BCEventCal, look for flyers in the O’Neill Atrium, maybe visit the McMullen Museum? It’s also a great time to get off campus and take in all that Boston has to offer.
I’m having my assistants research this question. In the meantime, can you offer some clarification: Do you mean the statue along the driveway to the South of Bapst, or the one in the niche on the north side of the building (facing Comm Ave.)?
Update 6/6/19: If you mean the one along the driveway, yes, that’s St. Mary. The significant iconographic detail is her foot on a snake (bit.ly/mary-snake). A shrine in that location seems to have been planned by Senior Sodality in 1948; the earliest existing photo that could be found is in the 1951 Sub Turri (bit.ly/bc-sub-turri-1951), but that seems to be a different statue. It is unclear when that one was replaced with the current one, which does not have a plaque.
That’s a pretty common urban legend about egregiously overdue books. They typically don’t keep accruing fines for years and years. That legend was most famously explored in the 3rd season of Seinfeld when Jerry has a library fine from 1971. In fact, most libraries stop keeping track after a while, consider the book lost, and buy a replacement. BC Libraries charges no more then $100 in the case that someone never returns a book (see bit.ly/BCLibraryFines for more detail). Of course, some materials are irreplaceable: in those cases, the material is usually in an archive and not allowed to leave the building or a special reading room for exactly that reason.
I’m sure you’ve heard that thing before about the probability of a thousand monkeys with typewriters eventually producing all the works of Shakespeare? Well, it’s not like that. This library employs librarians, not monkeys. Librarians might not be as fun as monkeys, but they do know how to find answers, such as how to use a Word template to print onto post-its affixed to pieces of paper, and which font (courier) most closely resembles typewriter font.
Interlibrary loan services (ILL) involve thousands of libraries. Therefore, most of the policies governing these services are not established at a local level, but through consortial agreements. Most academic libraries do not offer alumni members with ILL services primarily because of contractual agreements with publishers, and practices established by the library consortia they belong to.
Yikes! I will pass your wildlife sighting on to the administration. But as far as I know, rats are generally unimpressed by wealth…
We’re a little better situated for classics like Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep), Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express), and Sherlock Holmes. If you’re looking for the latest stuff you can try our Pop collection in the lobby. Another approach would be to take a book like this Crime Fiction Handbook and see which of their recommendations sounds good to you–we pretty much have everything on the list. bit.ly/bc-cfh. I found it, and a lot of mystery titles, by doing this search on the library homepage: bit.ly/bc-detective. But you’re asking me, so I’ll say: read The Big Sleep.
There are 3 flatbed scanners in the Digital Studio on the 2nd floor of O’Neill Library… IOW, almost right below me.
The Career Center (bit.ly/BC-career) They have many resources. set up a time to consult with them. And best wishes!
