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Jan 28, 2026

The Confusing World of Popular Periodical Access

Why is it so confusing to find and access articles in online newspapers and magazines?

Jan 14, 2026

Entering the Public Domain in 2026

Happy New Year! Another set of copyrighted characters and works enters the public domain.

Transformer Explainer

Dec 1, 2025

GenAI: A Glossary

BC Libraries staff hope this glossary will help you develop critical thinking about GenAI tools.

Photo credit: Nooksack Library, Deming Washington

Apr 8, 2025

Why Cuts to the IMLS Matter

A recent Executive Order targeted the little-known Institute for Museum and Library Services for elimination.

Apr 1, 2025

GenAI@BCLibraries: GenAI & Citation

When you use tools like Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, or ChatGPT you need to cite them!

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 16, 2023

Open Access Week

Open Access Week returns this year, from October 23rd to 29th.

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.