Mar 17, 2025 GenAI@BC Libraries: Ethical and Legal Issues Questions of creator’s rights, bias in the model, and environmental impacts all counterbalance the utility that Generative AI tools provide.
Mar 11, 2025 GenAI@BC Libraries: Pedagogy and Information Literacy BC Libraries are treading carefully in adopting GenAI in library instruction, mindful of its limitations in the context of student formation.
Feb 26, 2025 GenAI@BC Libraries: Added Value It’s becoming clearer that generative AI doesn’t add value universally; it adds value in limited applications and contexts, using particular AI tools adapted to particular circumstances.
Feb 24, 2025 GenAI@BC Libraries: the Basics How do the BC Libraries respond to the quickly changing AI environment?
Jan 22, 2025 Public Domain Day 2025 With the turning of the calendar over to another year, a new set of titles have become available via the Public Domain!
Nov 4, 2024 Why Do People Read for Pleasure Lauren Wilwerding (English) wondered: Why do people read? So she made it into the subject of a Literature Core course pursuing, as she put it, “an explicit exploration of literature as a source of …
Aug 9, 2024 Data in the Humanities Members of the Digital Scholarship Group talk about what data is and what it looks like in the humanities.
Photo by John Blyberg Jul 3, 2024 Controlled Digital Lending, Round 2 The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York hears oral arguments in Hachette v.
Mar 6, 2024 Sense of the Possible: An Introduction to Theology and Imagination In Sense of the Possible: An Introduction to Theology and Imagination, Callid Keefe-Perry traces how theologians have understood the role that imagination plays in their field.
Feb 22, 2024 A Delicate Matter: Art, Fragility, and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century France Important contribution to the scholarship on durability and conservation in eighteenth-century French art that shows how physical instability played a critical role in establishing art’s meaning …
Feb 12, 2024 Teaching at BC Libraries Snapshot, Fall 2023 Librarians taught research skills and strategies to 6814 students in 258 instruction sessions in summer and fall 2023.
Feb 5, 2024 The Election Year, Discernment, & BC Libraries In an election year weakening the thread of civility, BC Libraries has redoubled its commitment to the BC Mission with a new strategic framework, and we’re ready to provide a community grounding …
Jan 21, 2024 Exploring Overlooked Library Tools Here are eight librarians with recommendations for their favorite under-appreciated library resources.
Nov 28, 2023 Watery Romanticism: Crossing the Irish Sea with Keats Burns Visiting Scholar Claire Connolly on what happens when we put literary concepts and periods to work between and across bodies of water.
Nov 28, 2023 Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Between Worlds See the international premiere of Between Worlds about the Irish composer and pianist Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin.
Oct 3, 2023 First Peoples in Children's Literature In light of the upcoming holiday, see how a change in perspective from colonizer to colonized makes a big difference in two children’s books.
Sep 25, 2023 Meet the O'Neill Reference Assistants O’Neill’s reference assistants are all library science students at Simmons University.
Sep 22, 2023 Red Shoe Night: Celebrating Rhina Espaillat “Red Shoe Night” evening extravaganza of poetry, music, and tributes celebrating Dominican-American poet Rhina Espaillat @ONeillLibrary.
Sep 22, 2023 Dana Gioia “Poetry and the Catholic Imagination” luncheon talk and reading with former Poet Laureate of California and NEA Chairman Dana Gioia
Sep 18, 2023 Disability Ethics and Preferential Justice: A Catholic Perspective In her book, Mary Jo Iozzio offers a theological reflection on disability, drawing on liberation theology within Catholic social teaching to discuss how individuals and the Christian church can work …
Jun 23, 2023 What Makes Education Catholic: Spiritual Foundations In What Makes Education Catholic: Spiritual Foundations, Thomas Groome discusses the history of Catholic education and how its rich theological foundations can give shape to its future.
Apr 23, 2023 BC E-Journals Spotlight This week, we’re featuring four E-Journals published on the Open Journal Systems platform at Boston College Libraries.
Apr 20, 2023 An ERC Animalium For Earth Month, BC’s Educational Resource Center has gathered a sampling of the ecological diversity of children’s books about animals.