{"id":936,"date":"2019-09-16T01:01:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T01:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/?p=936"},"modified":"2019-09-18T14:33:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T14:33:42","slug":"gargan-hall-stained-glass-audio-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/gargan-hall-stained-glass-audio-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Gargan Hall Stained Glass Audio Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The next time you are in the Bapst Library, check out the new audio tour of the Gargan Hall stained glass windows<\/a>. Glass artist Earl Edward Sanborn designed the windows based on correspondence with then president, Father James H. Dolan, who established the theme of the curriculum of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. He finished them in 1928. A book about all of the stained glass at BC–Transforming Light: The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College<\/em>, by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Gary Wayne Gilbert–is available at the Bapst Library information desk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Detail, Images from the east wall, Philosophy alcove. Page 73: Logic in Transforming Light: The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College<\/em>, by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Gary Wayne Gilbert<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Scan this QR code for a sample audio tour of the philosophy window<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the\nwebsite with the complete tour, each window has a descriptive sign with a QR\ncode. Just point your phone\u2019s camera at the QR code, and\nthe text and audio about that window will open. Don’t forget your headphones, they will keep you from\ngetting displeased looks from those who are studying nearby!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The idea for this tour\nstarted with our planning for Parents Weekend. Rather than offer guided tours\nwhich require people to show up at a specific time, we thought a self-guided\napproach would be logistically easier. Having the tour online also provides the\nsame information to anyone who visits Gargan Hall. So, if students need a\ndistraction from their studies, they can open the tour and learn about the\nstained glass window next to them, which might picture a whimsical frog or a man\nseeming to summon lightning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Stained
Detail, Images from the west wall, Poetry and Drama alcove, Gargan Hall, Bapst Library. Page 48: The Frogs, in Transforming Light: The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College<\/em>, by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Gary Wayne Gilbert<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Detail, Images from the East wall, Useful Arts alcove. Page 64: Engineering, in Transforming Light: The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College<\/em>, by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Gary Wayne Gilbert<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Much of the information\ncame from existing guides to the Bapst Library windows.  During the summer, those narratives were\nenhanced (and sometimes corrected) by library staff. The team that worked on\nthis project includes Nina Bogdanovsky, Sonia Ensins, Laurie Mayville, Steve\nRunge and Scott Britton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Detail, Images from the East wall, Natural Science alcove. Page 68: Astronomy, in Transforming Light: The Stained-Glass Windows of Boston College<\/em>, by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Gary Wayne Gilbert<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Library staff has created a self-guided audio tour of the stained glass windows in Bapst Library\u2019s Gargan Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[],"coauthors":[52],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}