Lunar New Year – The Answer Wall

January 23, 2020January 24, 2020

Happy new year!

May the year of the Rat bring you good luck and prosperity. Happy Lunar New Year!!!

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018

新年快乐！(Happy Lunar New Year!)

Thank you! 新年快乐！Happy Lunar New Year to you, too! Wishing all good health and happiness in the Year of the Dog!

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018

新年快乐！(Happy Lunar New Year!)

Thank you! 新年快乐！

Happy

Lunar

New

Year

to you, too! Wishing all good health and happiness in the Year of the Dog!

February 16, 2018February 16, 2018

新年快乐! Happy Lunar New Year! <3

Thanks! Happy Lunar New Year to you, too! Please enjoy our collection of Year of the Dog photos.

February 16, 2018February 16, 2018

Happy Chinese New Year!

Thanks! Happy Lunar New Year to you, too! I hope you enjoy the photos of BC Libraries staff canine friends.

February 5, 2018February 5, 2018

How do you celebrate Chinese New Year?

I’ll be celebrating Chinese New Year with the entire library on February 16th when we are having multiple therapy dogs visit (in honor of the Year of the Dog, of course) as well as a new year’s wishing activity and some traditional giveaways. All of the events will be in the Reading Room on the 3rd floor of O’Neill. Watch the space across the lobby from me for a related book display too!

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.