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…

With another election year comes a bevy of misinformation and sophistry. The former comes in many forms with the goal of division, and the latter has more to do with convincing others to adopt a viewpoint, as opposed to rational…