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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.

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.

Apr 6, 2023

Telling Climate Stories

Climate is both too big and too small for the human scale, so how can we tell stories about it?

Mar 24, 2023

New Access Services Staff

Meet three new staff members in Access Services at O’Neill Library

Mar 7, 2023

Tilling the Church: Theology for an Unfinished Project

Richard Lennan, Ph.D., Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, discusses his book Tilling the Church, a theology for the pilgrim church.

Feb 21, 2023

Evolving Together Into the Unknown

ChatGPT has amplified the sense of accelerating change. Tom Wall, University Librarian, talks about a library ecosystem prepared for change.

Feb 6, 2023

Copyrighted Works from 1927 Enter the Public Domain

On January 1, 2023 copyrighted artifacts from 1927 entered the Public Domain, which makes them free to reuse and share publicly without having to ask for or purchase permission.