Boston College will host the Inauguration of its 26th president, John T. Butler, S.J., this October.  In honor of this momentous occasion, the Boston College Libraries present Building Boston College, a special presidential tribute. There are concurrent display in the…

I was helping a professor last week with a perennial problem: how to provide students access to content in popular periodicals like newspapers and magazines without confusing them with a dizzying array of library access points.

As the calendar turns over to another year, another set of copyrighted characters and works enters the public domain after serving the standard copyrighted term in the United States of 95 years.

Understanding how Generative AI (GenAI) works can be challenging in an environment of hype-driven media representations, and a lack of understanding can lead to uncritical adoption of and trust in GenAI output. BC Libraries staff hope this glossary will help…

This past year, Burns Library hosted a new instruction initiative for First-Year Writing classes. 2024–2025 Outreach & Instruction Fellow Maggie Erwin shares some reflections on this pilot program. This post, written by Maggie Erwin, 2024–2025 Outreach & Instruction Fellow, was…