Answering questions at Boston College O’Neill Library
These slips help staff shift collections that need to be compressed to facilitate a renovation of the 5th floor. Some titles are still growing (more volumes are being published) and we need to know which ones, so that appropriate room is left on the shelf. Make sure you check out the new user spaces in Fall 2020!
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I marvel at human movement of all kinds, but especially movement coordinated with music to be expressive. UPrising brings together a lot of styles to do that. So, yes, I like your team. (Sorry about redacting names: it’s my policy.)
According to this 2017 article in The Heights (bit.ly/BCDiningProfit), “BC Dining has a break-even bottom line. It does not try to make a profit. If there is any surplus of money at the end of the year, it is used to improve dining facilities. ”
Montserrat says: “This year, the Athletics Department has revised how they will look to distribute tickets internally to their home games. As part of this, Athletics believes distributing physical tickets will better serve our Montserrat community, which mirrors how they distribute tickets to their student athletes. It is not our, or Athletics’, intention to exclude Montserrat students. This is purely a means of improving the system that allows us to provide free tickets to our students.”
Update 9/12/19: BC Police Officer Postell says, “I have personally checked the area, and found that the lights in which the individual may be speaking about are blue and in fact found within the interior or Stayer Hall. These lights and devices have no affiliation to the traditional emergency blue light call boxes strategically located around our campus. These devices are a proximity card reader for individuals with mobility disabilities who reside in this residence hall.”
Sorry! I’ll have my assistants look into that & try to get it changed.
Did you know we have a Boston College Tree Inventory? The data can be downloaded from our eScholarship institutional repository at http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3810. Unfortunately, they only identified this tree to the genus level, not species. It is a Picea, that is to say, a spruce of some sort.
UCS appreciates your feedback. They told me that photos will be going up on the staff page, but the university has a backlog on getting staff photos done at the moment, so it will take a little time. Hope to see all their faces soon! And wishing you a terrific start to the semester as well.
As far as I know, the only alternative at BC is the recording studio at the Center for Teaching Excellence; however, that’s dedicated to faculty & grad students developing instructional content. Check with the music department? bit.ly/bc-music-dept. Were you a guest of a Northeastern student, you might get access to their state-of-the-art sound-recording facilities in Snell Library.
Update:
Hours have changed since and most recent hours can be found at bit.ly/OISSHours
Original Answer: Monday 2pm-4pm, Tuesday 10am-12pm, Wednesday 2pm-4pm, Thursday 10am-12pm, and Friday 10am-12pm. And if those don’t work for you, call for an appointment at (617) 552-8005. For more info, see: bit.ly/OISSStuff.
This is totally library! As are our other 7 libraries: Bapst (arts), Theology and Ministry Library (TML) on the Brighton campus, Law on the Newton campus, Educational Resource Center (ERC) in Campion, Social Work Library in McGuinn, Burns (special collections and archives), and the Catherine O’Connor Library at Weston Observatory (seismology). Also, our online presence, library.bc.edu is very library.
Are you a student here? There’s nothing wrong with being in love with your school. Or are you applying now? Then I hope that you are accepted and can come show BC all the love. Or are you someone who likes to hang out on campus, but don’t attend or plan to attend? That’s great too. There are many opportunities for members of the larger community to experience the joy of BC and show BC their love!
The Dean of Students Office is responsible for the group; there is representation from across campus departments, including UHS, Residential Life, Campus Ministry, BCPD, University Counseling Services, Conduct Office, Office of Outreach and Support, the Provost’s office and others. Find more info at the website (bit.ly/BC-BET) or by contacting Caroline Davis at the Dean of Students office.
I’m so grateful I never have to leave campus and come back and find a spot. This summer, the parking situation is tighter than usual because of construction issues. One of my helpers tells me it is easy to find parking before 8 AM, if you can make that work into your schedule.
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It’s sad and disheartening. All the walls at BC will miss them. I like the drawings of hearts and stars, though. Thanks for those, whoever added them. If I had arms I’d offer you a hug. Please know that the walls of the library and all the other campus buildings are here to support you, and there are many humans, too, who can do the same: friends, family, BC’s professors and staff. We all want the same thing: that everyone here will thrive. Counseling (bit.ly/BC-counseling) and pastoral counseling (bit.ly/bc-pastoral-counseling) are always available.
BC Landscape Services takes care of the ones in front of O’Neill and the Newton campus, and BCPD handles the one in front of Maloney.
Yes we are! We have a great deal of respect for all our Big Ten friends. But come NCAA tournament play we stick with our ACC allies.
I can’t see double parking in that garage as being anything other than a selfish and discourteous act (except in extreme emergencies, perhaps, and by that I don’t mean running late for an exam.) But the wrong way driving, which my helpers have seen from time to time, is clearly due to people getting confused or being unfamiliar with the roads on campus. Still scary, though.
The literal meaning is products from Microsoft, the company Bill Gates founded. Why it’s phrased that way on the banner is anybody’s guess. Light humor? Good security practices are really about keeping yourself – your identity and access to your private information – safe. Bill’s products will be just fine.
According to the University Catalog, there are 2 ways to graduate in <4 years; Advanced Standing through AP exams, and Acceleration by taking summer courses at BC and more than 15 credits per semester. More info is here (see “Graduation”): bit.ly/BCAcadPols, but in any case, talking to your Academic Advisor is the first step.
