maintenance – The Answer Wall

October 4, 2019October 4, 2019

There are small bugs that r gray all around Medeiros.

Yuck! Probably the oddly-named silverfish. I advise placing a work order through the Agora Portal. “My Services” tab → “Facilities Work Request.”

March 25, 2019March 25, 2019

I saw a mouse in Mac. I was wondering if something might be able to be done about this.

I see several running around during late-night all the time! Can we get a cat?

I would start by contacting Facilities at 2-3048. I expect that having bringing in a cat would be problematic for a variety of reasons, but you could suggest it!

October 30, 2018October 31, 2018

The handicapped stall on O’Neill 1 women’s bathroom just doesn’t flush right. Hasn’t all semester.

Thanks for letting me know – I’ve passed the message along, and I hope that it all works its way through the system…

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.