Oct 14, 2026
The Cost of Knowledge: Open Access Week at Boston College
Open Access grants users free access to scholarly articles, books, and educational materials.
News Archive
Sep 23, 2026
Building Boston College online exhibit
In honor of the Inauguration of its 26th president, John T.
“20101013-00016JBH-Edit-Edit.jpg” by John Henderson, CC BY-ND 2.0
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.