Professor Netzer speaks about the generous gift of thirty four Late Antique Coptic textiles that The McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College received from the Newton collectors Donald and ...
Archives sometimes have the reputation of being dusty and (gasp!) boring, a place where archivists and researchers sort through mounds of paper. This exhibit argues that archival research is not ...
In Why You Eat What You Eat, acclaimed neuroscientist Rachel Herz examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits. Herz, who's been ...
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The book looks at how, after assuming power in 1933, the Nazi Party manipulated the legal system and the constitution in its crusade against Communists, Jews, homosexuals, as well as Jehovah's ...
Every year at Boston College includes waypoints—annual events that anchor the academic and social seasons of the year. From convocations to class reunions, the Boston College community gathers ...
How did Catholicism sound in the early modern period? What kinds of sonic cultures developed within the diverse and dynamic matrix of early modern Catholicism? And what do we learn about early ...
The Institute for the Liberal Arts at Boston College was founded in 2008 to facilitate collaborative interdisciplinary research and teaching in the liberal arts. ILAMajor Grants have been a major ...
This book offers a concise and up-to-date review of the essential analysis and action underlying scholarly engagement with the world of business. It discusses the sorts of capabilities academics ...
Volume 50, issue 2 of Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, a BC Libraries open access journal, is now available online.
Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) founded Roycroft, a reformist community of craftspeople and artists in East Aurora, New York in 1895. Unable to find a publisher for his work, Hubbard founded a private ...
This annual exhibit features the creative side of the Boston College Libraries' Staff. Submissions include photography, painting, digital design, collage, and fiber crafts.
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In diaries, letters, photographs, and poetry, Boston College students have responded to the current events of their day. This selection of material from the University Archives represents only a ...
Each year the collections of the Boston College Libraries are enriched by the generosity and foresight of benefactors who created endowed funds to support library collections. Each fall, O’Neill ...
In Art & Digital Technology, a studio art course taught by professor Karl Baden from the Art, Art History, and Film Department, students combine text and image to produce a variety of design and ...
It is with great pleasure that the Boston College Libraries announce the winners of the Ninth Annual Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping Contest at Boston College: The first place award ...
Volume 50, issue 1 of Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, a BC Libraries open access journal, is now available online.
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Discussing the theme of (in)visibility sets into motion the very process of identifying issues that often go unknown, unheard, and unseen. But it goes beyond just the duality of the “visible” and ...
Featuring more than 500 photos and maps, this is the first comprehensive, research-based history of Navajo weavings with imagery inspired by tribal sacred practices. These Yei, Yeibichai, and ...
Many of the world's states—from Algeria to Ireland to the United States—are the result of robust national movements that achieved independence. Many other national movements have failed in their ...
Volume 37 Issue 1 of Information Technology and Libraries, a BC Libraries open access journal, has been published.
The Boston College Dance Ensemble is a student-run organization that provides opportunities for approximately thirty talented dancers to choreograph and perform. All the proceeds that BCDE ...
Father Blake tought American film history and criticism at Boston College for 22 years. Prior to that he was an executive editor of America magazine, a national weekly journal of opinion and ...
Today, Christians read Paul's Letter to the Romans as divinely inspired, as part of the canon of the New Testament. Although penned nearly two thousand years ago to a specific group of believers, ...
In 21 pages of closely written entries in a slim 8" x 10" notebook, undertaker Thomas Murray (1774-1840) listed the names of those he buried. This partial record of interments at Boston’s earliest ...
Presented in conjunction with Boston College Center for Irish Programs Thursday, February 22, 2018, 4:30pm Devlin Hall, Room 101 For his Boston College debut, award-winning novelist and short ...
What do you think of when you think of fashion? You may think of the utility of the clothing you choose to wear each day. Or, you may think of the over-the-top nature of high fashion and avant ...
English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when ...
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In Sammy Chong's own words "the worthiness of a work of art relies on its capacity to express human feelings, thoughts, and situations. Artists throughout the ages have longed for meaning in their ...
The Holy City: Art of Love, Unity & Resurrection presents an historic exhibition of original works by the Passages Artists Collective. Scheduled to coincide with African-American History Month and ...
In 1984, Hartmut Austen, finishing Middle School, became seriously interested in the visual arts. Devoting much of his time to drawing, he took inspirations from a variety of pop-cultural and ...
21st Century Corporate Citizenship is a practical guide to building a successful business in the modern day. It is a book about leveraging all the tools, trends and assets at the disposal of ...
BC Libraries has recently published Volume 2 Issue 1 of Colloquium, the undergraduate political science journal of Boston College.
Volume 49, issue 4 of Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, a BC Libraries open access journal, is now available online.
Monday, December 11: 11:30am - 1:00pm Tuesday, December 12: 11:00am - 1:00pm Wednesday, December 13: 2:00pm - 3:00pm Thursday, December 14: 5:00pm - 7:00pm & 8:00pm - 9:00pm Friday, December 15: ...
In Art & Digital Technology, a studio art course taught by professor Karl Baden from the Art, Art History, and Film Department, students combine text and image to produce a variety of design and ...
On the first floor of O'Neill Library, you can find our newly expanded collection of comics and graphic novels, which includes everything from superhero stories to memoirs! If we don't have what ...
We use addition on a daily basis--yet how many of us stop to truly consider the enormous and remarkable ramifications of this mathematical activity? Summing It Up uses addition as a springboard to ...
Kaleidoscope, the International Relations and Global Studies Journal of Boston College, celebrates International Education Week 2017 by sharing a series of photos reflecting the theme of the year: ...
This book presents innovative strategies for sustainable, socially responsible enterprise management from leading thinkers in the fields of corporate citizenship, nonprofit management, social ...
An exhibition sponsored by the Office of International Students & Scholars and the Boston College Libraries of international photographs submitted from members across the Boston College community. ...
In August 2005, less than two years after losing his mother and father to cancer—dying six days apart—Andrew McAleer was diagnosed with fourth-stage melanoma. Less than three years later, at age ...
Desegregating Boston's Schools and Right Reading are open at the Burns Library!
Colloquium Digital Library Of Life Sciences is a collection of concise eBooks designed to cover the essential material to understand life science topics. Please send feedback to Enid Karr ...
In 1954, the United States Supreme Court declared separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional (Brown v. Board of Education). The ruling for desegregation provoked ...
Article summary linked text. Despite dramatic workforce gains by women in recent decades, a substantial gender earnings gap persists. In The Dynamics of Gender Earnings Differentials: Evidence ...
Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, a BC Libraries open access journal, has published its Autumn 2017 issue.
What do you think of when you think of creating art? Art Club wants to expand what it means to create art, especially in our digital era. This is Art Club's first Digital Art Show, ranging in ...
Volume 8 (issues 1-3) of Integritas, a BC Libraries open access journal, is now available online.
This catalog surveys Mary Sherman’s work which straddles painting, sculpture, installation and performance. Painting, however, remains the driving force of Sherman's aesthetic approach, which ...
International Higher Education, one of BC Libraries open access journals, has published its September 2017 issue.
Most people live a life planned by others. That's why Thoreau's observation that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" is even more true today than in the 19th century when he wrote ...
In our culture we are confronted with idealized images of beauty. Glimpses of these images circulate in media, movies, cell phones, and so on. Seen out of context, and placed in abstracted spaces ...
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As it seeks to win the hearts and minds of citizens in the Muslim world, the United States has poured millions of dollars into local television and radio programming, hoping to generate ...
Covering the years of 1869 to 1905, the Reeves family diaries record the daily lives of a South Boston household, as written by Dexter Reeves Sr. and Jr. Both kept daily logs of the weather as ...
Along with Baldwin, the feathery guy in the first case, we want to help introduce you to Boston College, to living in Boston … and give you some tips on getting used to college life. In addition ...
Software Request Policy The Digital Studio encourages the exploration of software and digital tools. For the best interests of our users and our workspace, we adhere to a screening process to ...
Social media is defined as "websites and applications which enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking." We once used telegrams, snapshots, postcards, letters, ...
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In May, the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies released The Portal to Jesuit Studies, a new research resource that provides “free online access to the some of the richest content associated ...
On trial until June 19, the British Online Archives contain the correspondence of Arthur Murray, 3rd Viscount Elibank, between 1909 and 1962 which include material on British politics in this ...
The Catholic intellectual tradition: A conversation at Boston College, Boston, Mass.: The Church in the 21st Century, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3073.
2017 Honorary Degree Recipients The Boston College Libraries congratulate the 2017 recipients of honorary degrees: U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) (honorary Doctor of Laws) Activist Amy Guen M.S.W. ...
This annual exhibit features the creative side of the Boston College Libraries' Staff. Submissions include photography, painting, digital design, collage, and fiber crafts.
The foundation of Boston College is its Jesuit Catholic tradition. Buildings and open spaces are the places where reason and faith are nurtured; they are the locations – indoors and out – in which ...
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Dianoia fosters open philosophical discussion and writing among undergraduate students. The journal is committed to providing the opportunity for intellectual reflection which bridges the academic ...
This book offers the first critical overview of the hymns of Ambrose of Milan in the context of fourth-century Christian song and Ambrose’s own catechetical preaching. These settings must inform ...
Digital Scholarship Incubator applications are due May 26. Apply online here: http://bit.ly/bc-dsi
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Pay a visit with the dogs from Therapy Dogs International! All dogs will be making appearences in the O'Neill Library Reading Room. Scroll down for dates and time. Campbell: Thursday, May 11 from ...
Each year the collections of the Boston College Libraries benefit from the generosity and foresight of donors who created funds to support library collections. Each fall, O’Neill Library ...
In Art & Digital Technology, a studio art course taught by professor Karl Baden from the Art, Art History, and Film Department, students combine text and image to produce a variety of design and ...
It is with great pleasure that the Boston College Libraries announce the winners of the Eighth Annual Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping Contest at Boston College.
The disproportional loss of individuals to HIV/AIDS in their most productive years raises concerns over the welfare of surviving members of affected families and communities. One consequence of ...
Colloquium, Boston College's new political science undergraduate journal is now available online as an Open Access journal.
O'Neill Library began its 24/7 hours Monday morning. We will remain open 24/7 until closing on Tuesday, May 16 at 11:00pm. During this time, we also make additional study spaces available. Rooms ...
Anti-All-Nighter Schedule for April 19 2017, located in the O'Neill Library Reading Room Desk Yoga, session one: 8:00pm - 8:30pm Desk Yoga, session two: 8:30pm - 9:00pm Chair Massage: 8:00pm - ...
“April is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM) at Boston College and this year our focus is on the many faces of the Asian American community. We are hosting the Untold Stories campaign ...
Are you worried about the availability and preservation of publicly accessible data? Boston College will be hosting events for Endangered Data Week. On April 19, our Data Refuge event will focus ...
Why do Republican politicians promise to rein in government, only to face repeated rebellions from Republican voters and media critics for betraying their principles? Why do Democratic politicians ...
Please join the Digital Scholarship Group for our 2017 Spring Showcase! The Showcase will highlight faculty, student, and staff digital scholarship projects.
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, and in a ...
Enter the 8th Annual BC GIS Contest Details: http://www.bc.edu/giscontest
Robert Savage is a member of the Department of History. He is the author of The BBC’s Irish Troubles: Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland (2015), A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish ...
O'Neill Library is open. All other libraries are closed and will reopen on Wednesday. Please check this site in case this information changes during the day.
Across the world, requirements for becoming a teacher have become increasingly stringent and more technology is making its way into curricula and instruction. The TIMSS 2015 Encyclopedia: ...
"How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my ...
For a third year, the Boston College Libraries and the Center for Teaching Excellence are offering to support faculty who retool their course curriculum to make required materials low or no cost. ...
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eARThproject incorporates still images from NASA global climate models with photographs of environmental degradation and destruction to increase public awareness and education about the intricate ...
Hartmut Austen studied painting and drawing with H.J. Diehl at Hochschule der Künste (University of the Arts) in Berlin. His first arrival in the United States was marked by a 1998 group ...
Cultures all around the world and in different times have strived for the establishment of stability and order. In this attempt those who do not fit into the status quo, those deemed as different, ...
Women's Magazine Archives contains the full backfiles of leading women’s interest consumer magazines. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to 2005.
Join us in the O'Neill Library, 3rd Floor Reading Room on Thursday, February 23 at 4:00pm for a fireside chat with Barbara Jones (VP, Student Affairs), Vincent Rougeau (Dean, Law School) and ...
There are many British Catholic authors featured in the John J. Burns Library’s collections, and this exhibit focuses on three of them; Montague Summers, the eccentric vampire and werewolf chaser, ...
Christianity and the Culture Machine is a precedent-shattering approach to combining theories of media and culture with theology. In this intensive examination of Christianity's role in the ...
Many of us here at Boston College are lucky enough to do it three times a day, or more. It's fundamental to life. It's also fundamental to making us who we are. The dinner table is at the heart of ...
O'Neill Library is open with limited services. Bapst Library will open at 6pm. All other libraries are closed and will reopen on Friday. Please check this site in case this information changes ...
O'Neill Library is open with limited services. Bapst Library will open at 6pm. All other libraries are closed and will reopen on Friday. Please check this site in case this information changes ...
How news stories enter our lives has changed radically, but we're still depending on assumptions about how print and TV news filtered truth from fiction. IOW, we're assuming other people (or ...
Boston Desegregation Although many cities across the United States experienced the tumultuous pains of integrating schools, Boston's politically charged and segregated neighborhoods experienced ...
The Americans by Car is a retrospective of artist's archival work that pays tribute to two influential photographers, Robert Frank and Lee Friedlander. The photographs in the book were taken by ...
As part of the course "Making History Public" in the History Department, Righting Historical Wrongs at the Turn of the Millennium features student-designed visualizations on historical justice ...
Accompanying the exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Rafael Soriano: The Artist as Mystic, Bapst Library has a new exhibit in Gargan Hall, Rafael Soriano: The Artist and His Contemporaries, ...
Access World News is a collection of local, regional, and international news sources. Additionally it provides access to many sources of foreign news in translation.
Back issues of the Irish Literary Supplement now available online
BC Libraries will trial Border and Migration Studies Online from now until February 15th. This collection of primary source material contains documents, images and video related to border control ...
Bookbuilders of Boston, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1937 to promote excellence and innovation in book publishing and manufacturing, makes annual grants to Boston College and other ...
With Sophistry and Political Philosophy, Robert C. Bartlett provides the first close reading of Plato’s two-part presentation of Protagoras. In the "Protagoras," Plato sets out the sophist’s moral ...
On Friday, February 3, Burns Library will be hosting Prof. Lucy McDiarmid of Montclair State University for a lecture entitled "Fairies, Rebels, and the Boundaries of the House in 1916." You are ...
BBC handbooks, annual reports, and accounts, 1921-2001/2, BBC Listener research Department, 1937 - circa 1950
From the moment of their first client engagement, consultants in all fields face communication opportunities and challenges. No matter what their focus may be—professional services, accounting, ...
The Boston College Libraries have acquired two multi-touch tables for digital exhibits. This page provides information about current, previous, and upcoming exhibits. Visit the third floor of the ...
In Art & Digital Technology, a studio art course taught by professor Karl Baden from the Fine Arts Department, students combine text and image to produce a variety of design and art-oriented ...
World Bank eLibrary delivers data, books, journals and working papers on cross disciplinary topics such as conflict, culture, economics, education, energy, environment, health and industry as it ...
This guide brings together library and outside resources to support the December 5, 2016 Advancing Research and Scholarship Day at Boston College which focuses on the topic of "The Environment & ...
Read for submission guidelines. Browse posters on the 2nd & 3rd floor of O’Neill & learn how geographic information systems are used Boston College.
Ah, "winter in New England", there’s a phrase to conjure up visions. Snow, snow, snow. It blankets and transforms, revealing a sparkling new, washed-clean world. Here we see not only the art of ...
The world of wealth and patronage that we associate with sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy can make the Renaissance seem the exclusive domain of artists and aristocrats. Revealing a ...
Get a jumpstart on your final papers and assignments with research help, writing assistance, and academic coaching. Or reduce stress with coloring, puzzles, stretching, meditation, a snack break, ...
Enter the 8th Annual GIS Contest! Browse posters on the 2nd & 3rd floor of O’Neill & learn how geographic information systems are used Boston College.
Native American Heritage Month from the Library of Congress Includes list of scheduled events, collections, exhibits and more Native American Heritage Month from PBS Watch selected documentaries ...
Once they had begun educating youth, the Jesuits never stopped thinking about pedagogy. The Ratio Studiorum (1599), widely celebrated for its organizational genius, also had a pedagogical aspect ...
An exhibition of international photographs submitted from members across the Boston College community. The theme is Beyond Borders and the selected photographs best fit this concept. The exhibit ...
Join us for an Open House where we will provide information regarding our skills and the services we offer, technology available to you, and digital scholarship projects at Boston College. ...
Join the Burns Library on Wed., Nov 9 at 4:30pm for the Fall 2016 Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies Lecture.
In The Ethics of Discernment, Patrick H. Byrne presents an approach to ethics that builds upon the cognitional theory and the philosophical method of self-appropriation that Bernard Lonergan ...
Join our focus group! Lunch and Library Feedback. 12:00-1:00pm, Thursday, November 9 O'Neill Library, 413 For more information, contact Carli Spina. -->
International Open Access Week, a global event in its ninth year, promotes the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results. ...
Reading Room in Level 3 of O'Neill Library 3pm to 5pm on Thursday, November 3rd Light refreshments will be served. Meet your subject librarian Learn about the best resources in your field Discover ...
Picturing Paradise is an exhibition that features embroidered and appliquéd fabric pictures called cuadros, created by the women of Compacto Humano and Manos Anchashinas, two art cooperatives ...
In the struggle for national independence, Irish women had to fight both British imperialism and Irish sexism. Featuring never-before-seen documents and artifacts as well as an original 1916 ...
This critical edition of Daniel, one of the earliest post-classical Arthurian romances, includes the normalized Middle High German text with an introduction, selected bibliography, index of proper ...
Beginning this weekend, O'Neill Library, in collaboration with Student Affairs and UGBC, will be piloting a project for the next 6 weekends in which the library closes at 10pm on Friday and ...
Grad Students, Like Pizza? Join our focus group! Lunch and Library Feedback. 12:00-1:00pm, Thursday, October 20. O'Neill Library, 413 For more information, contact Carli Spina.
Join us on Tues., Oct 18 for a special evening as leading poets from Ireland read & discuss selections from Leabhar na hAthghabhála: Poems of Repossession, an anthology of Irish-language poetry, ...
Join us at the Burns Library on Wed., Oct 19 at 6pm for a presentation on the conservation of the carved frontispieces at Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo in San Antonio, Texas & reading ...
The Boston College Libraries are delighted to present The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music. This digital collection features traditional tunes and songs collected by master fiddle player ...
During the 2016 Hispanic Heritage Month Photo Exhibit, students and administrators wanted to focus on showcasing the beauty of Latin American culture. More importantly, we wanted to focus on the ...
Like Pizza? Join our focus group! Lunch and Library Feedback. 12:00-1:00p, Wednesday, October 12. O'Neill Library, 413 For more information, contact Carli Spina. -->
Central European dissidents gained global fame by serving as key protagonists in the collapse of communism in 1989. As writers, philosophers, and artists, they should be remembered for their ideas ...
Cartoonists have satirized United States presidential candidates since the early 19th century. These works promote debate by questioning a candidate’s character, skill and judgement. They ...
Join us in celebrating Jane Jacobs' 100th birthday with Robert Kanigel, author of a new biography of the activist, journalist, and pioneer of urban planning and city design, whose archives are ...
The BC Libraries Core Skills videos are a great place to start learning the skills, concepts, and strategies that will help you work with sources in your research projects. As you get deeper into ...
The Digital Scholarship Group at Boston College Libraries and Dr. Michael Noone are proud to introduce Burns Antiphoner, an interactive open access resource. Using an early 14th-century Franciscan ...
Bill Clinton: New Gilded Age President goes beyond personality and politics to examine the critical issues of the day: economic and fiscal policy, business and financial deregulation, healthcare ...
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Upcoming Digital Scholarship Events in the Digital Studio
TML (Theology & Ministry Library) is offering the following series of 30-minute, stand-alone but inter-connected workshops to help you make the most of our research resources!
In Naturalizing Heidegger, David E. Storey proposes a new interpretation of Heidegger's importance for environmental philosophy, finding in the development of his thought from the early 1920s to ...
This exhibit is the product of a History Department seminar that was developed in collaboration with the University’s Burns Library. The course encouraged students to consider how governments used ...
What kind of BC study animal are you? Take the quiz to find out.
This selection of photographs is part of a larger body of work called Seeing Pink, about the idea of the color pink in America. Why pink? First, it’s a sensational color. Pink stands out, it draws ...
Learn the basics about the BC Libraries that you need right now, plus 10 more important things to know about us. Learn All About The Libraries.
Applications for Student Library Employment Open 08/24! They can be found on the Boston College Libraries' Employment Page. -->
Following the 291st Olympiad in 393, the emperor Theodosius banned the Games as pagan. Roughly 1500 years later, Pierre de Coubertin formed the International Olympic Committee, and the first games ...
BBC Monitoring tracks the global media for the latest news reports emerging around the world -->
Thursday, July 21, at 10am, Merkert 130. Come learn about Scopus, a great research tool for the sciences, now at Boston College in 2016.
When Jesuits evangelized the indigenous peoples of Africa and the Americas, they began by learning and studying their languages. This exhibit features grammars and dictionaries using European ...
The annual Celebrating Creativity of the Boston College Libraries' Staff exhibit this year once again features the creative side of the BC Libraries' Staff. Submissions include photography, ...
Kanopy has more than 26,000 films in its collection! Kanopy's viewing platform makes it easy to watch, share and discuss films across our campus and at your own convenience. Enjoy!
Check out great summer reading in our OverDrive collection. Hundreds of eBooks and audiobooks available now!
In The Jury in America, a work that deftly combines legal history, political analysis, and storytelling, Dennis Hale takes us to the very heart of this debate to show us what the American jury ...
You Are Here: The Chestnut Hill Campus in Maps & Photos from the University Archives Gargan Hall landing, Bapst Library May - September, 2016 YOU ARE HERE is an exhibit now on view in the Bapst ...
Expand your horizons, your career, and your future with GoingGlobal.
This collection of essays looks at the interrelated themes of Catholicism, violence and politics in the Irish context in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although much effort was expended ...
Yom HaShoah is the day that honors the memory of the victims of the Holocaust (1933-1945). This year Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is recognized from sundown May 4 to sundown May 5. ...
It is with great pleasure that the Boston College Libraries announce the winners of the Seventh Annual Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping Contest at Boston College.
In Art & Digital Technology, a studio art course taught by professor Karl Baden from the Fine Arts Department, students combine text and image to produce a variety of design and art-oriented ...
In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago, in German New Guinea. His destination: the island ...
The Boston College Libraries have developed a new Boston College Dataverse to provide easy access to the scholarly data produced by members of the Boston College community.
Can't find that DVD or book that you need at your library? Request it through WorldCat or ILL.
Missionary Linguistics in colonial Africa is a student project led by Doyle Calhoun (Departments of Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures, and Romance Languages and Literatures majoring in ...
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The papers of British author Graham Greene are now open to the public after careful reprocessing. Researchers will find the collection streamlined, with a more in-depth and detailed finding aid ...
A collection of 50 publications from the TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center is now available at eScholarship@BC, Boston College's institutional repository of scholarly resources. For two ...
Thursday, April 14, 4:00pm, O’Neill Library 3rd Floor Reading Room, with Paul Lewis, editor, and members of the citizen poets research team: Jaimie Carvalho, Kelsie Dorn, Kristen House, Harrison ...
The purpose of this exhibit is to help illustrate the Asian American experience, a storied history often overlooked in the context of American History. This exhibit is intended to remind the ...
A comprehensive collection of reports and working papers from the Center for Retirement Research is available in eScholarship@BC, Boston College's institutional repository. This collection is ...
Weston Observatory and the Boston College Lynch School of Education recently installed a seismograph in the BC O’Neill Library (Level One study area). This seismograph records earthquakes in New ...
For the second year, the Provost, the Libraries and the CTE are offering grants and support to faculty members who retool their curriculum to include high-quality materials at no (or very low) ...
Michael Serazio is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication whose research and teaching interests include popular culture, advertising, politics, and new media. His first book, ...
The concept is simple; create a (mostly) edible object that relates to the written word. Books, poems, short stories, graphic novels or anything written can serve as the inspiration.
Enter the 7th Annual BC GIS Contest Details: http://www.bc.edu/giscontest
Scopus and Web of Science, two major multidisciplinary databases that can help your research.
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The Boston College Libraries are excited to be launching new interactive touch table displays that will allow visitors to interact with our libraries' unique collections in cutting edge ways. We ...
Utilizing three photograph collections form the University Archives: Boston College special guests and events, Boston College athletic photographs, and Boston College building and campus images ...
Photographer Lisa Fitzgerald lived and worked as a Religious of the Sacred Heart in Jalapa, Nicaragua from 1980 -1984 at the time of the Contra War. During those years, she took photographs of ...
Scopus, a large database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze and visualize scholarly research. Here at BC through 2016.
The BC Libraries will be hosting a Data Carpentry Workshop on Monday, March 7 and 8 (9 - 5pm). It is open to researchers throughout the Boston area, but some seats are reserved for BC.
Find Your Topic Overview: The best quality introductory articles written by prominent scholars are all at your fingertips. Find the next steps to leading journals and books. Understand Key Terms, ...
It was the sad sight of bare gray walls in the new Stokes Hall that led the department to institute the course "Making History Public" with the idea that a student-curated exhibition would be ...
Burns Library and the McMullen Museum of Art have opened complementary exhibitions on the Arts and Crafts Movement in Ireland. Paul Larmour (Queen’s University, Belfast) will present an ...
In this collection of essays, the sophistication and vibrancy of contemporary phenomenological research is documented, including both its engagement with key figures in the history of philosophy, ...
The School of Social Work’s library received a significant upgrade this past summer, when Boston College invested substantial resources to building a gleaming, innovative space for its students.
"This exhibit highlights the works of a limited number of 20th and 21st century black artists who have lived, studied (and in many cases, taught), and created in the greater Boston area. The ...
"I am a Mexican-American artist who is creating what he believes will spark conversations around the topics of gender identities and expressions in the Black community. I am an advocate of ...
The Arts and Crafts Movement that first emerged in England in the 1880s took on a distinctive character in Ireland, where its aesthetic and social ideals coalesced around the drive to forge a new ...
Mayhem, Mischief, & Misfits in Medieval Irish Monasteries. Join us for a lecture by Dr. Colmán Ó Clabaigh, a Benedictine monk of Glenstal Abbey on 03/02, 4:30p, Thompson Room, Burns Library.
Attend Scopus & Web of Science training on Jan 27th & Feb 3rd.
This lecture will look at the events which led to the formation of the National Museum of Irelandand its development as a national cultural institution down to the present day.
These paintings were made as meditations on war, specifically the war in Iraq which began in March 2003. The slow, inexorable march to war was unavoidable. The White House started to beat the ...
Audiobooks are the new paperback? Ok... maybe not. But audiobooks are another way you can enjoy your favorite authors thanks to your Boston College Libraries. Using your BC ID you can sign up for ...
New Reserve a Study Room system in O'Neill! Try the new resveration system now.
Need some holiday cheer, a Christmas classic, or a wintery tale? Why not check out a DVD from the library? We have a great collection of films just waiting to be seen. goo.gl/HDHSFl
Need a quiet place to study for finals? We offer a variety of study environments, from very quiet to collaborative group spaces. Reserve your study space now!
Art & Digital Technology, Level One, O'Neill Library, December 7 - 18, 2015
In times of massive economic inequity, why do so many Americans consider themselves mentally ill? Exploring the psychological effects of debt, foreclosure, and unemployment, this book shows how ...
In this workshop we will provide an overview of TEI & the TAPAS Project, as well as demonstration. This session will appeal to those who are interested in learning about text encoding (TEI); those ...
A World on the Move: Who Are We and Where Are We Going? An exhibition sponsored by the Office of International Students & Scholars and the Boston College Libraries of international photographs ...
Stories about ethical issues at universities make headlines every day. From sexual violence to racial conflict, from the treatment of adjuncts to cheating, students, professors, and administrators ...
Want to learn more? Explore books below and ask about training! GIS Day November 18th, 2015. Contact Barbara Mento, GIS Librarian: barbara.mento@bc.edu
The history of art & architecture in Baroque Rome has essentially been told through singular relationships between powerful patrons & great artists. In this workshop, Dr. Stephanie Leone and Dr. ...
Learn how to import and organize references, and format them for your research papers. Thursday, Nov 12th from 7:00pm to 8:30pm. Sign up for Refworks here.
Embodied Stories: Lived Experiences of Boston College Students. "We are human. We all bear our own burdens. We do not, however, need to bear them alone. These intimate portraits are an attempt to ...
On August 3rd, 1976, in Córdoba, Argentina's second largest city, Fr. James Week and five seminarians from the Missionaries of La Salette were kidnapped. A mob burst into the house they shared, ...
Digital Humanities is continually shaping and reshaping itself. In this talk, Bauer will discuss ways a campus community can think about finding the "DH" that is right for them and how to put it ...
O'Neill Library's got you covered! Stop by the 3rd Flood Haunted Bookcase and check out a great selection of scary books and films for this Halloween. Visit http://goo.gl/nJ9g3m to see what's ...
Early Printed Books: History and Craft is a Boston College history course currently being taught by Professor Virginia Reinburg, in conjunction with Burns Library Conservator Barbara Adams Hebard. ...
Elements is now published as an online Open Access journal.
International Open Access Week, a global event now entering its eighth year, promotes the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those ...
Although they are rarely considered in relation to each other, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance (1852) and Frederick Douglass’ “The Heroic Slave” (1853) were released about six months ...
Join us for a virtual tour of the Irish National Famine Museum and Strokestown Park estate in County Roscommon, Ireland on Friday October 30 at 6:30pm. Read more for further details.
This work provides a unique focus on the re-emergence of liberal arts education in China. This is the first book that explores in depth the development of liberal arts education in China. Through ...
Art works by Javier Orozco, MCAS, '19 & Sofia Zenzola, CSOM, '16
Data, data, data -- it's truly everywhere, and it’s growing. We collect more and more of it (think "Big Data"), and we're storing almost all of it digitally -- and all of it is at risk without ...
Please join us for Novelists and Politicians in Nineteenth-Century Ireland on Wednesday, November 18, 4:30pm, Thompson Room, John J. Burns Library. Follow this link for details.
Stop by O’Neill Library September 27 - October 3 for BANNED BOOKS WEEK a display of books available for checkout from the collections at O’Neill Library. These books have been challenged, ...
The Boomers are the generation that changed everything, from economics to politics to popular culture. This book examines the myriad ways and long-reaching consequences of the now fully "grown up" ...
OUR COMMON HOME CONFERENCE, Monday, September 28 through Thursday, October 1, 2015. Details can be found here: http://library.bc.edu/CommonHomeLibraryGuide
Peripatetic by nature, I have linked my work as an artist to my travels. Travel, as a source of visual imagery and inspiration has long been a part of both the European and American painting ...
Drawing together the words of Pope Francis’s encyclical letter Laudato Si’ with a selection of corresponding images, this exhibit is an invitation to actively reflect on the concerns, challenges, ...
Read Tom Wall on how the Library can add value to the academic experience of faculty and students; Kimberly Kowal on the Library's plans to greatly support faculty and student digital scholarship; ...
In the spring of 2015, Professor Seth Meehan's 14 undergraduate students of the History Department's course "Making History Public: Boston College" revisited their institution’s history, soon ...
Greater Iranian arts from the 10th to the 16th century are technically some of the finest produced anywhere. They are also intellectually engaging, showing the lively interaction between the ...
The late Boston College professor & author John Mahoney on reading poetry aloud.
The "John La Farge Stained Glass in New England" has site launched! Learn more about John La Farge!
Boston College Career Center will be hosting a series of drop-in chat sessions at O'Neill Library!
Nobel prize-winning Irish writer William Butler Yeats often revised and in some cases rewrote his lyrics. The brief poem above indicates not only a care for sound and quality of lyric, but the ...
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BrowZine, an app that lets you read scholarly journals in your field of study, is now available on the Web. Go to BrowZine Web or download the app here BrowZine.
On Tues, 07/21, the libraries will be open during their listed hours. However, due to a Library all-staff event,the libraries on the Chestnut Hill and Brighton campuses will be staffed with ...
Intellectual Shamans by Sandra Waddock, based on the work and lives of 28 very well-known management academics, describes what it means to be an intellectual shaman. It provides insight into the ...
Seán Lemass is generally regarded as the man most responsible for the modernisation of Irish society. This book, written by Robert J. Savage, considers how Lemass evolved as a key figure in Fianna ...
A beta version of the new Libraries Web site is available at http://library.bc.edu. Please take a look and tell us what you think.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is, perhaps, one of the most tantalizing unfinished works of nineteenth-century literature. Then novel began appearing in parts in April 1870, but when Dickens died on ...
Work from Two Bodies reproduces 43 photographs from two independent projects by professor Karl Baden; Cliché-Verre and Shadow Pictures, 1983-84 (shown at Blue Sky Gallery in January 1985), and ...
In celebration of Bloomsday, the Burns Library is proud to announce the opening of a new exhibit on James Joyce. This exhibit is on display in the Burns Library from June 16th through September ...
The Jesuits call themselves men on the move, a religious society committed to reaching far places and pushing the frontiers of knowledge. Over the centuries, the society has embraced many ...
In the final semester of my Boston College career, I have had the good fortune of serving as a Conservation Assistant under Barbara Adams Hebard in the John J. Burns Library of Rare Books and ...
Mass spectrometry has long served as an invaluable tool for detection of type and concentration of chemicals present in carefully-prepared laboratory samples. Click here to read more about Dr. ...
Nicholas Culpeper’s Anatomy of the Body of Man, published in 1653, not only contributed to a great leap forward in medical knowledge but was also positioned at the nexus of religious, political, ...
Professor David Twomey researches & publishes in the area of labor & employment law. His research & publication interests also extend to contract law, intellectual property rights, business ...
Read Tom Wall on some Library changes, initiatives, programs and partnerships; Chris Staysniak & Kasper Volk on the New Sommervogel, an online bibliography covering Jesuit Studies; Jane Morris on ...
The John J. Burns Library holds books from the personal library of the eminent nineteenth century Boston lawyer, Robert Morris (1823-1882). The majority of the Morris Library has been housed in ...
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue, Vol 4. No. 1, 2015, of The Levantine Review, Boston College's flagship Near Eastern and Mediterranean Studies journal, published by ...
In 1927, publishing house Faber & Gwyer (later Faber & Faber) published a series titled The Ariel Poems—a run of small, illustrated pamphlets that combined a poem with an artist’s illustrations. ...
The Companion to Ignatius of Loyola aims at placing Loyola in a broader context of important late medieval & early modern movements that have been appreciated too little by historians. Learn more ...
Affordable Course Materials Initiative grant applications are due May 8, 2015.
The Boston College Libraries encourage undergraduate honors students to make their senior theses available online through eScholarship@BC. Please see the deposit instructions for more information.
Share your work with Geographic Information Systems in our 6th Annual GIS Mapping Contest. Winning posters will be displayed in the O'Neill Library. Prizes of Amazon gift certificate will be ...
Have you used the tables near the O'Neill 3rd floor printing & technology area? We would like to know how that works for you, in order to make spaces in the library serve users better. Please fill ...
A book of polyphony written by a Spanish composer who worked in Rome, printed by an Italian living in France, inscribed with the ownership markings of a Portuguese monastery, sits in an American ...
