The Reference Desk is staffed by Reference Assistants Sarah Shepherd, Caroline Safreed, and Michael Burke on Monday-Thursday 4pm to 9pm. We are all graduate students at Simmons University studying Library Science. Come by and say hi!
Boston College has entered into a “Read and Publish” agreement with Cambridge University Press. That sounds great, but what does it mean? The “Read” part of the agreement is library access to the entire Cambridge University Press Full Journals Package.…
Dropping the Card If you ask a cataloger, the only reason libraries work is accurate cataloging: if our resources weren’t organized, you’d be hard-pressed to find anything. So if you want to understand what’s under the hood of the BC…
As we navigate a rapidly changing world, access to high-quality, peer-reviewed content is vital for scholars, researchers, and anyone concerned with the world and culture around them. Here at Boston College Libraries, we publish seventeen open access peer-reviewed e-journals that…
Have you heard the news? Boston College launched its Human-Centered Engineering Department this fall, welcoming over 20 inaugural first year students! Since this summer, staff at BC Libraries have been hard at work making sure folks in this brand new…