After visiting Burns Library to explore symbolism and communicating complex ideas through visual art, students in Professor Jane Cassidy’s Introduction to Digital Art designed their own tarot cards, which are on exhibit in the O’Neill Library Reading Room.
Accordion donated by Derrane’s family to Burns Library is on view in the Irish Room.
Burns Library offers three exhibits each year to highlight the breadth of its unique collections and to spark connections between them and the interests of Boston College’s academic community.
Are you curious about Burns Library holdings and if/how they can enhance your courses? Burns Library staff encourages faculty interested in using special collections materials to enhance the learning outcomes of their courses to contact us for more information. Burns Library staff encourages faculty to contact us to develop sessions using special collections materials and/or help design activities and assignments that require students to apply and demonstrate what they have learned.
The Boston College Libraries have long supported faculty teaching and student learning through programmatic library instruction and individual student consultations.