BC Libraries, COVID-19 Edition, Part III
Sep 14, 2020
Since the Libraries had to close in March, staff have been working to continue to provide access to our resources and services.
Since the Libraries had to close in March, staff have been working to continue to provide access to our resources and services.
This semester, our data and digital scholarship workshops will be offered online.
The BC Libraries have redoubled our resolve to provide a full suite of services, access to content and de-densified spaces to meet the needs of our community.
The list combines a selection of recent studies examining the contemporary system of institutional inequality and its historical development alongside a few of the seminal theoretical works that …
A collection of library staff recommendations. See what we’re reading, and maybe find a new favorite book!
Want to be anti-racist but concerned about COVID-19? Librarians can help.
News lately has been a confusing deluge. Here are some simple, quick tips for DIY fact-checking.
Once again, we are saddened by the crimes in our nation being committed by those who should be defending and protecting everyone.
Boston College Libraries staff have adapted during the COVID-19 pandemic by striving to apply the Jesuit values of being attentive, reflective, and loving, both with each other and with broader BC …
The COVID-19 pandemic has made an indelible mark on the world.
This is the second of two profiles of how BC Libraries staff have continued to bring you resources and services during the COVID-19 closing.
This is the first of two profiles of how BC Libraries staff have continued to bring you resources and services during the COVID-19 closing.
Meet Jenna Grossguth, a sophomore who, under normal circumstances, works at O’Neill Library’s circulation desk.
Need to find sources for research and don’t know where to start?
As Boston College has moved entirely to online instruction for the remainder of the semester, the University Libraries are providing support to students and faculty in myriad ways.
A set of original handwritten letters housed in the Jesuit Archive in Rome has been scanned and transcribed and is now available freely on the web for research and study.
If you still have research papers assignments, you’re going to need online sources.
THE ANSWER WALL! Answering questions at Boston College O’Neill Library
Beginning March 19, Boston College will transition to remote teaching and learning.
Boston College Libraries welcomes faculty to create image collections in Artstor with the help of the newly available JSTORForum tool.
BC Library Workshops - Upcoming Events
African-Americans were prominent in social work during the Progressive Era, but are often overlooked.
Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920), one of only two women represented in Bapst Library’s stained-glass portraits of American authors, may have faded from the canon, yet she continues to offer a unique …
There are two major shifting projects at O’Neill library that may impact how you locate items in the stacks on levels 4 and 5.
Join us as we celebrate Black History Month by turning handwritten documents into digital text.
In the United States, postcards could not be sent through the mail until 1872, and it wasn’t until 1898 that non-official, privately-printed cards could be mailed.
Reserve the Faculty Preview Room now in order to use the new microphones for your audio projects or to make use of a quiet group meeting space.
Offers definitive coverage of the “Age of Capital,” the industrial revolution, and the High Victorian Era, when the foundations of modern-day capitalism and global trade were established.
BC faculty, students and staff can now access washingtonpost.com
The Digital Scholarship Team will be hosting a series of workshops this semester based on the upcoming publication of the 2020 census.
Boston College Libraries belong to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), which includes the largest research and academic libraries in the United States and Canada.
The Journal of Marketing Communications for Higher Education is devoted to scholarship and commentary on the use of branding and contemporary marketing and communications strategies within higher …
Digital Scholarship is happy to announce a series of 6 data-related workshops throughout Spring 2020.
Introducing Weitao Liu, Philosophy & English ‘20, and O’Neill Library Digital Studio student assistant.
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 area universities and colleges, …
The BC Libraries Newsletter is now a blog. The first article in this new format features Tom Wall, University Librarian, beginning the semester with Ignatian reflections.
The BC Libraries Newsletter is now a blog. The first article in this new format features Tom Wall, University Librarian, beginning the semester with Ignatian reflections.
The BC Libraries Newsletter is now a blog. The first article in this new format features Tom Wall, University Librarian, beginning the semester with Ignatian reflections.
Dianoia international Philosophy Journal releases new issue!
The BC Libraries Newsletter is now a blog. The first article in this new format features Tom Wall, University Librarian, beginning the semester with Ignatian reflections.
Our GIS Day celebration this year will provide a hands-on workshop featuring mapping in the humanities for non-ArcGIS users.
The BC Libraries Newsletter is now a blog. The first article in this new format features Tom Wall, University Librarian, beginning the semester with Ignatian reflections.
Mapping Customary Authority and State Land Titles in Zambia and Senegal Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 3:00 pm O’Neill 307
The BC Libraries Newsletter is now a blog.
The book asks the question – how can God happen again after the death of God?
Rex Stout, perhaps best known for the Nero Wolfe detective novels, was an author and political activist, as well as an avid chef and gardener.
The following resources are being evaluated for addition to our collection.
Take a moment to sign up for Primary Source Bootcamp before all the spots are gone!
The Grand Challenges for Social Work (GCSW) focuses on big, important and compelling problems for all of American society.
News coverage from 1969 tells the story of the Apollo 11 Mission’s awe inspiring feat of science, technology and courage.
Nominated for the Philip Schaff Prize of the American Society of Church History.
Use this guide to learn more about the three areas of the news environment, and find tools to help you account for how each one of these areas affects the quality and accuracy of the news you find and …
The Boston College Libraries provide access to nytimes.com for current faculty, students and staff.
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.
John J. Burns Library develops and promotes exhibits featuring a wide variety of special collection formats, topics, and community interests.
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.
Holy cards—small images of saints and shrines, often with a prayer or scripture on the reverse—have been part of Catholic life since the 15th century.
This book offers managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions—but it is not a book about technology.
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.
In 1907, Boston College – then in Boston’s cramped South End neighborhood – acquired a parcel of land in nearby Chestnut Hill.
This book examines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community.
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 Tenth Annual Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping Contest at Boston College:
Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity is the first comprehensive volume to trace the origins and development of Jesuit philosophy during the first century of the Society of Jesus (1540–c.
This edited volume examines the historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic implications of re-visiting Restoration Spain (1874-1931) in television costume dramas produced since 2000.
The Jesuit Online Bibliography is a re-envisioned, open access and fully searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century.
“Challenges and Opportunities for Living and Working Longer,” with Kevin Cahill.
Professor Conley talks about his experience of painting lilies in winter, how a flower that blooms in winter reminds us of regeneration and spring, and the symbolic meaning of lilies in Christian …
Flann the novelist. Myles the columnist. Brother Barnabas the student. Brian O’Nolan (1911-1966) wrote in many genres under many guises, in both English and Irish, confounding contemporaries with his …
The heart of ministry with adolescents is assisting adolescents to recognize and grow into the multiple relationships in their lives, including their relationship with God.
The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader brings together seminal texts from antiquity to the end of the nineteenth century and makes them accessible in one volume for the first time.
Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan and theologian and civil rights lawyer William Stringfellow belonged to an old American tradition – faith-based activism.
Many of us are familiar with romance as a concept of romantic love, but what if we looked at it in a different way?
While we have an incredible amount of statistical information about immigrants coming in and out of the United States, we know very little about how migrant families stay together and raise their …
Volume 50, Numbers 3 and 4, of Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits are now available online.
Redefining Retirement For Nurses will help expand your ideas of retirement by sharing opportunities available to you and enhancing your understanding of how to leverage your talents in new ways.
Climate change is often viewed as a concern limited to scientists and social scientists.
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 …
The Holy Spirit helps readers grow in awareness of the Holy Spirit’s presence and movement in their lives.
Learn to Program using Swift for iOS Development breaks down the learning barriers for app creation with a hands-on, video-centered approach.
The Boston College Theology and Ministry Library (TML) is many things: a meeting place; a center of learning; a repository of treasured theological and philosophical wisdom; a venue wherein lessons …
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.
Technology and Engagement is based on a four-year study of how first generation college students use social media, aimed at improving their transition to and engagement with their university.
From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of …
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.
In Why You Eat What You Eat, acclaimed neuroscientist Rachel Herz examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence our eating habits.
All this and more in the Boston College Libraries Newsletter!
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.
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?
The Institute for the Liberal Arts at Boston College was founded in 2008 to facilitate collaborative interdisciplinary research and teaching in the liberal arts.
This book offers a concise and up-to-date review of the essential analysis and action underlying scholarly engagement with the world of business.
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.
This annual exhibit features the creative side of the Boston College Libraries’ Staff.
All this and more in the Boston College Libraries Newsletter!
In diaries, letters, photographs, and poetry, Boston College students have responded to the current events of their day.
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.
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:
Volume 50, issue 1 of Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, a BC Libraries open access journal, is now available online.
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.
Follow the Educational Resource Center on Instagram at @bcerclibrary
Discussing the theme of (in)visibility sets into motion the very process of identifying issues that often go unknown, unheard, and unseen.
Many of the world’s states—from Algeria to Ireland to the United States—are the result of robust national movements that achieved independence.
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.
Father Blake tought American film history and criticism at Boston College for 22 years.
Today, Christians read Paul’s Letter to the Romans as divinely inspired, as part of the canon of the New Testament.
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.
Presented in conjunction with Boston College Center for Irish Programs Thursday, February 22, 2018, 4:30pm Devlin Hall, Room 101
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 English …
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.
All this and more in the Boston College Libraries Newsletter!
In Sammy Chong’s own words “the worthiness of a work of art relies on its capacity to express human feelings, thoughts, and situations.
In 1984, Hartmut Austen, finishing Middle School, became seriously interested in the visual arts.
The Holy City: Art of Love, Unity & Resurrection presents an historic exhibition of original works by the Passages Artists Collective.
21st Century Corporate Citizenship is a practical guide to building a successful business in the modern day.
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
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!
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?
This book presents innovative strategies for sustainable, socially responsible enterprise management from leading thinkers in the fields of corporate citizenship, nonprofit management, social …
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: …
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.
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.
In 1954, the United States Supreme Court declared separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional (Brown v.
Article summary linked text. Despite dramatic workforce gains by women in recent decades, a substantial gender earnings gap persists.
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?
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.
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 …
In our culture we are confronted with idealized images of beauty.
All this and more in the Boston College Libraries Newsletter!
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 pro-American …
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.
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.
Software Request Policy The Digital Studio encourages the exploration of software and digital tools.
Social media is defined as “websites and applications which enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
All this and more in the Boston College Libraries Newsletter!
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 …
The Catholic intellectual tradition: A conversation at Boston College, Boston, Mass.
2017 Honorary Degree Recipients The Boston College Libraries congratulate the 2017 recipients of honorary degrees:
This annual exhibit features the creative side of the Boston College Libraries’ Staff.
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 …
Claim your work and distinguish yourself with an ORCID ID.
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.
Digital Scholarship Incubator applications are due May 26. Apply online here: http://bit.
Do you want to work in the library over the summer?
Pay a visit with the dogs from Therapy Dogs International! All dogs will be making appearences in the O’Neill Library Reading Room.
Each year the collections of the Boston College Libraries benefit from the generosity and foresight of donors who created funds to support library collections.
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 …
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.
Colloquium, Boston College’s new political science undergraduate journal is now available online as an Open Access journal.
Anti-All-Nighter Schedule for April 19 2017, located in the O’Neill Library Reading Room
“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.
Are you worried about the availability and preservation of publicly accessible data?
Why do Republican politicians promise to rein in government, only to face repeated rebellions from Republican voters and media critics for betraying their principles?
Please join the Digital Scholarship Group for our 2017 Spring Showcase!
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.
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?
Across the world, requirements for becoming a teacher have become increasingly stringent and more technology is making its way into curricula and instruction.
“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause?
All this and more in the Boston College Libraries Newsletter!
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.
Cultures all around the world and in different times have strived for the establishment of stability and order.
There are many British Catholic authors featured in the John J.
Christianity and the Culture Machine is a precedent-shattering approach to combining theories of media and culture with theology.
Many of us here at Boston College are lucky enough to do it three times a day, or more.
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.
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.
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 …
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, …
Back issues of the Irish Literary Supplement now available online
With Sophistry and Political Philosophy, Robert C. Bartlett provides the first close reading of Plato’s two-part presentation of Protagoras.
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.
