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. These small, devotional objects have been ...
This book offers managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions—but it is not a book about technology. It is about the organizational changes required to harness the power ...
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 1907, Boston College – then in Boston’s cramped South End neighborhood – acquired a parcel of land in nearby Chestnut Hill. Soon, plans were approved for four buildings, and ground was broken ...
This book examines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country's Jewish community. The author presents both history and memory of Lebanon's Jews after they were expelled from ...
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: The first place award ...
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 ...
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. This database ...
"Challenges and Opportunities for Living and Working Longer," with Kevin Cahill. 2018. In How Persistent Low Returns Will Shape Saving and Retirement, Robert Clark, Raimond Maurer, and Olivia ...
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 ...
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. Navigating Toward ...
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. With ...
Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan and theologian and civil rights lawyer William Stringfellow belonged to an old American tradition -- faith-based activism. During the tumultous 1960s and long ...
Many of us are familiar with romance as a concept of romantic love, but what if we looked at it in a different way? In literature, romance can be associated with adventure and things remote from ...
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. Now, however, it is increasingly recognized as a focus of interest for the Humanities. As the impact of ...
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. Each author is a faculty member of Boston College's School of Theology and Ministry and ...
Learn to Program using Swift for iOS Development breaks down the learning barriers for app creation with a hands-on, video-centered approach. Learn to Program Using Swift for iOS Development is ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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. 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 ...
