Aug 27, 2019
Read the new BC Libraries Blog!
The BC Libraries Newsletter is now a blog.
News Archive
Aug 8, 2019
Faculty Book Spotlight
Nominated for the Philip Schaff Prize of the American Society of Church History.
Aug 8, 2019
Reduce News Pollution
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 …
Aug 8, 2019
New York Times online now available to BC community
The Boston College Libraries provide access to nytimes.com for current faculty, students and staff.
Aug 8, 2019
Check out the O'Neill Library Answer Wall
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.
Aug 8, 2019
New Burns Online Exhibits
John J. Burns Library develops and promotes exhibits featuring a wide variety of special collection formats, topics, and community interests.
Aug 8, 2019
O'Neill Reading Room Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions
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.
Jun 17, 2019
Burns Library Exhibit: Pray for Us
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.
May 21, 2019
Faculty Publication Highlight: Gerald C. Kane
This book offers managers and business leaders a guide for surviving digital disruptions—but it is not a book about technology.
May 17, 2019
O'Neill Reading Room Exhibit: Recent Acquisitions
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.
May 14, 2019
New Bapst Library Exhibit: Ghost Campus
In 1907, Boston College – then in Boston’s cramped South End neighborhood – acquired a parcel of land in nearby Chestnut Hill.
May 7, 2019
Faculty Publication Highlight: Franck Salameh
This book examines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community.
May 3, 2019
O'Neill Level One Gallery: Art & Digital Technology
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 …
Apr 23, 2019
Congrats to the Winners of the 10th Annual GIS Mapping Contest
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:
Apr 22, 2019
Faculty Publication Highlight: Cristiano Casalini
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.
Apr 9, 2019
Faculty Publication Highlight: Wan Sonya Tang
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.
Mar 28, 2019
New Digital Scholarship Project: Jesuit Online Bibliography
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.
Mar 25, 2019
Faculty Publication Highlight: Joseph F. Quinn, Ph.D
“Challenges and Opportunities for Living and Working Longer,” with Kevin Cahill.
Mar 12, 2019
Faculty Publication Highlight: Alston Conley
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 …
Feb 26, 2019
New Burns Library Exhibit: Genius of Genre
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 …
Feb 26, 2019
Faculty Publication Highlight: Theresa O'Keefe
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.
Feb 12, 2019
Faculty Publication Highlight: Daniel McKaughan & Holly VandeWall
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.
Feb 4, 2019
TML Exhibit: Seeking Shelter, a Story of Place, Faith & Resistance
Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan and theologian and civil rights lawyer William Stringfellow belonged to an old American tradition – faith-based activism.
Jan 22, 2019
The Romance of Books
Many of us are familiar with romance as a concept of romantic love, but what if we looked at it in a different way?