The University of California system recently announced a major deal with the scholarly publisher Elsevier, after a two-year standoff. This deal is a big development for librarians and scholars, but the details are a bit inscrutable if you haven’t been…
Both Ijeoma Oluo (3/24, 7:00pm) and Resmaa Menakem (3/25, 6:00pm) will be giving presentations at BC (via Zoom) this week. (Click links for details and free reservations.) I rarely read one book at a time. In the last few months…
Despite the restrictions and limitations of the pandemic, the Digital Studio is still open*. In addition to providing an extra study space for students, the Studio has recently begun supporting some cutting edge equipment and software that can help students…
Digital Scholarship and the Boston College Libraries are dedicated to expanding the use of 3D and immersive technologies on the BC campus for the purposes of creating accessible immersive, interactive, multimodal, and engaging experiences in research and in the classroom.…
A recent conversation among librarians at BC Libraries, prompted by one of those articles that has the potential to change a field’s assumptions, led many of us to reflect on the role of librarians in disrupting misinformation.