The Task Force As we know too well by now, developments in GenAI are so fast that today’s pronouncements can be stale by the end of the week. Librarians are by nature thorough and deliberative, so how do we respond…
By 2023 Lauren Wilwerding had encountered enough students in her classes enjoying assigned reading more than they expected that she asked herself a question: Why do people read? So she made it into the subject of a Literature Core course…
In case you don’t know, BC Libraries have a variety of technologies for the BC community. In addition to providing access to desktop computers, O’Neill Library has a number of monitors you can plug your laptops into. There, you can…
April is certainly a time of celebration at Boston College – students begin to prepare for graduation and make plans for the summer, the promise of some warmth (usually) offers a welcome reprieve from the bitter cold, and of course…
Librarians at BC taught 258 instruction sessions in summer and fall 2023, shy of the 2019 high-water mark by only three sessions. In these sessions we taught library skills and strategies to 6814 students. Here’s the breakdown, followed by survey…