Faculty Publication Highlight

Kevin Ohi begins this energetic book, Henry James and the Queerness of Style, with the proposition that to read Henry James - particularly the late texts - is to confront the queer potential of style and the traces it leaves on the literary life. In contrast to other recent critics, Ohi asserts that James’s queerness is to be found neither in the homoerotic thematics of the texts, however startlingly explicit, nor in the suggestions of same-sex desire in the author’s biography, however undeniable, but in his style. To read more about this Faculty Publication Highlight, please click here.

New OA Journal: The Levantine Review

The Levantine Review is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary Open Access Electronic Journal that aims to reflect on the hybrid Levantine Near East. As Boston College's flagship Middle East Studies journal, published twice a year by the Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures and the Boston College Libraries, the Review is dedicated to a critical study of the Levant, aiming to restitute the term "Levant" as a valid historical, geographic, political, linguistic, and cultural concept, and reclaim it as a positive and legitimate parameter of identity. TO LEARN MORE, CLICK HERE.

Faculty Publication Highlight

Yonder Moynihan Gillihan's new book, Civic Ideology, Organization, and Law in the Rule Scrolls, discusses that over the past sixty years, several studies have demonstrated that the Dead Sea Scrolls sect was one of numerous voluntary associations that flourished in the Hellenistic-Roman age. Yet the origins of organizational and regulatory patterns that the sect shared with other associations have not been adequately explained. Drawing upon sociological studies of modern associations, this book argues that most ancient groups appropriated patterns from the state. To learn more, please click here.

The BC Libraries Newsletter

Read the University Librarian's updates on the latest developments in BC Libraries; the benefits from the Library joining the Center for Research Libraries this coming July; new discovery tools to help scholars learn about innovative and exciting developments in their fields; an analysis of journal policies on eligibility of their articles being deposited in eScholarship@BC; the evolving landscape of e-books; Library plans to play a leading role in supporting digital humanities; the recent digitization of the Michael Leary Letters by Burns Library. These articles and more from the Boston College Libraries Newsletter.

Food Free Zone in O'Neill Library

An area on the 5th floor of the O'Neill Library has been permanently designated a "Food Free Zone" in consideration for our students who have severe food allergies. The area is on the 5th floor along the wall overlooking the parking garage and is clearly marked. Thank you for your cooperation.

Letters from the Mariana Islands, 1678-1687

The Burns Library holds a collection of letters from Spanish missionaries to the Mariana Islands. These letters are now available digitally  for the first time. The letters were all handwritten in Spanish between 1678 and 1687 by missionaries to the Marianas. They include descriptions of the European arrivals on the islands, Spaniard and indigenous peoples’ encounters, and daily life and Jesuit missionary work, as well as reports of Jesuit deaths, ship and supply status, and requests for additional materials and/or men. The original letters are available for research in the Burns Library reading room. Click here to read more.

iPad 3 is here!

O’Neill Library has now added 5 iPad 3’s to the array of technology items available for loan at the Level 3 circulation desk. These devices are Wi-Fi ready, have a 64GB processor and offer faster performance, improved screen resolution and a variety of advances related to Facetime, the in-built camera and photo functionality.

Irish Artist Louis le Brocquy, 1916-2012

Louis le Brocquy’s  career spanned over seven decades and le Brocquy became internationally recognized as one of the foremost Irish painters of the 20th century.  The John J. Burns Library is showing examples of work by le Brocquy in the exhibit “Painter, Illustrator, and Author: Irish Art in the Twentieth Century” curated by Boston College graduate student Andrew Kuhn. To read more about Louis le Brocquy, please click here.

Information Wanted Reaches 40k Missing People

Michael May from the townland of Kilkeran in County Mayo is the 40,000th missing person added to the Information Wanted database. Information Wanted is an online collection of personal information (like age, hair color, port of arrival, occupation and birthplace) taken from missing persons advertisements in the Boston Pilot newspaper beginning in 1831. Boston College Libraries student workers have reached the spring of 1869 so far in their efforts to enter data gleaned from the advertisements and enable family researchers and historians to search the entries online. Click here to read more.

24/7 Hours Begin April 23

Beginning the evening of Monday April 23, and continuing through the night of Monday, May 14, the O'Neill Library and Gargan Hall in the Bapst Library will be open 24 hours a day.

Several non-traditional study areas will also open in O’Neill during the 24/7 period.  At 6 p.m. each day these rooms will be available for quiet study until 7 a.m. in the morning. Signs will identify each room. Click here to learn more about which areas are available.

Winners of the GIS Mapping Contest

It is with great pleasure that the Boston College Libraries announce the winners of the Third Annual Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping Contest at Boston College. The awards will be presented by Chris Conroy, Associate University Librarian, on Wednesday, April 18th at 3:00 p.m. in the O'Neill Library reading room. Posters of all entries will be on display in the library for a week so please stop by and enjoy the great work of these students. To read more about the winners, please click here.

BC Access to the New York Times

You may have noticed that the New York Times has reduced its allotment of free articles at NYTimes.com from 20 down to 10 a month.  There are several ways to access Times articles via the BC Libraries, however, from the first issue in 1851 through today’s edition -- outlined in our Research Guide to Newspapers. There is also a new bookmarklet there, which allows you to quickly move from a blocked article at NYTimes.com to the fulltext via Library databases.

Faculty Publication Highlight

Bernini: His Life and His Rome, by Professor Franco Mormand, discusses the sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Considered by many to be the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy. It is perhaps not surprising that this artist who defined the Baroque should have a personal life that itself was, well, baroque. As Franco Mormando’s dazzling biography reveals, Bernini was a man driven by many passions, possessed of an explosive temper and a hearty sex drive, and he lived a life as dramatic as any of his creations. The result is a seductively readable biography, stuffed with stories and teeming with life—as wild and unforgettable as Bernini’s art. No one who has been bewitched by the Baroque should miss it. Click here to read more.

Faculty Publication Highlight

The new book by Professor Elizabeth Rhodes, Dressed to Kill: Death and Meaning in Zayas's Desengaños, discusses the noble wives in María de Zayas's Desengaños, who suffer terrible fates. The hallmark of Zayas's aesthetics, these characters are the central reason why her fiction has increased in popularity through the ages. Yet their stories pose an apparent contradiction between the author's pro-female rhetoric and her gusto for killing model women, then beautifying their mutilated cadavers. Dressed to Kill reconciles Zayas's Desengaños with the age in which it was written, contextualizing the book in baroque poetics, the Spanish honor code, and fifteenth-century martyr saints' lives. Click here to read more.

BC historical materials online & findable!

As the 150th anniversary of Boston College's founding approaches, the Libraries have made a concerted effort to make Boston College history materials available digitally. In fact, the digital resources are being added so quickly, it can be difficult to keep up. Fortunately, there's a guide for that. The Sesquicentennial Digital Library tab of the University Archives LibGuide is frequently updated with links to Boston College historical materials online. Click here to read more.

Gov. Documents Collection to Move

In preparation for the renovations to O'Neill Library's Level 1 the bulk of the print collection of U.S. Federal documents that were housed on that floor on compact shelving will move to closed shelving within the O'Neill Library. Many of our government documents are now available electronically, with links in Quest and Holmes. Click here to read more.

Latest Undergraduate Newsletter

The Libraries' semi-annual undergraduate newsletter, UGRADS@BC.LIBRARY, is now available. Check it out today!

Sacred Heart Review

The Sacred Heart Review was a newspaper published in Cambridge and Boston between 1888-1918. Not merely a church bulletin, the Review contained sections dealing with local, national, and international news, and had a nation-wide subscriber base. It is important for its reporting of the Catholic Church in general and the Church in New England in particular; its pieces that explicate and defend Catholicism; and its advertisements. The entire 60-volume run has now been digitized and is available online in the public domain. The online version was made possible, in part, by the John and Ruth Galvin Endowed Fund for the Boston Collection at the John J. Burns Library. Available at http://newspapers.bc.edu.

Sage Reference Trial

Try out more than 350 encyclopedias and handbooks covering African American Studies, Anthropology, Business & Management, Communication & Media, Counseling & Psychotherapy, Economics, Education, Environment, History, Politics, Psychology, Research Methods, Science, Philosophy, Theology, Social Work, Sociology and more. Trial runs until June 30th. Sage Reference can be found here.

Faculty Publication Highlight

Professor Lawrence Scott's new book, Fragments of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes, brings together international experts in the field to discuss their findings related to all aspects of this fascinating, beautiful and fairly recently discovered form of carbon. Familiarly known as “buckyballs”, fullerenes, and the related carbon nanotubes, hold out the tantalizing possibility of offering true superconductivity, with the potential to allow us to more efficiently harness our current electricity supply and to power the photovoltaic devices that could decrease our dependence upon oil and electricity. Professor Scott serves as co-editor of this volume (and co-author of Chapter 9), along with his colleague, Professor Marina Petrukhina (University of Albany).This volume covers a wide range of topics including current methods of synthesis, molecular geometry, and reactivity with metals, as well as descriptions of newer members of the fullerene family of molecules and related compounds, including open geodesic polyarenes, called fullerene fragments or buckybowls.

Join UGBC in Celebrating GREEN WEEK

The Boston College Libraries Join UGBC and EcoPledge in Celebrating GREEN WEEK 2012!

New Green Books Display in O'Neill Library Lobby and more “Green” Displays throughout the BC Libraries

Showing of the film "Gasland" in two parts: Wed, 3/21 and Thurs, 3/22  (Both at 12 Noon) in O'Neill 211

For more information, visit BC Green Week Libguide.

Original Letter By St. Xavier at Burns

An original letter written by St. Francis Xavier is one of the treasures of the John J. Burns Library. A digital surrogate of the letter can now be viewed by anyone in the world with an internet connection. The letter was presented to Boston College in 1935 by the Philomatheia Club, an auxiliary organization of prominent Catholic women from greater Boston.

The letter, written to the King of Portugal on January 31, 1552, recommends several Portuguese subjects living in the Far East for recognition. A 1961 article from The Heights describes the letter’s significance and provenance.

Faculty Publication Highlight

In Professor Friedberg's new book, Weyl Group Multiple Dirichlet Series: Type A Combinatorial Theory, he discusses the innovative and collaborative path that led to the discoveries described in this book and their potential long-term consequences. "Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series" are generalizations of the classical Riemann zeta function, a function defined in the 19th century whose ongoing study is central in analytic number theory. Like the Riemann zeta function, the series studied here are Dirichlet series with analytic continuation and functional equations. However, Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series may be functions of several complex variables and their groups of functional equations may be arbitrary finite Weyl groups. Furthermore, their coefficients are multiplicative up to roots of unity, generalizing the notion of Euler products. This book proves foundational results about these series and develops their combinatorics.

Libraries Hours Altered for Spring Break

Gargan Hall will be closed to users Tuesday thru Thursday, March 6-8 to allow for an assessment of preservation needs. Bapst Library will remain open with normal access to Kresge and the Art Stacks. The Social Work Library will close completely Monday thru Wednesday, March 5-7 for HVAC work. Social Work staff will be available at temporary locations in Bapst and O’Neill or can be reached by email at swlib@bc.edu. Spring break hours for all libraries are listed here.

Faculty Publication Highlight

Sandra Waddock's new book, SEE Change: Making the Transition to a Sustainable Enterprise Economy, is about the myriad problems that we face and the systemic changes that are necessary for all enterprises in whatever sector and however constituted to operate within sustainable limits, to lower their ecological footprint, to enhance social equity. The authors see the seeds of economic change in new and fundamentally different forms - in entrepreneurship, networks, governance, transparency and accountability - already being planted and beginning to grow. Deep change is needed in the purposing, goals and practice of business enterprises. This book documents some of the changes that are already in progress.

Devlin Hall, Gasson Hall, & St. Mary's

Landscape photographer Clifton Church created memorable images of Gasson, St. Mary’s, Devlin and Bapst. His views of Gasson Hall show the clean lines and light-colored stone that are still visible after the recent restoration. The campus is shown in its early days, rising from farm land and overlooking the reservoir that once occupied the present site of Lower Campus. See the Burns Library Flickr site for early photographs of the Chestnut Hill campus.

More information about Clifton Church and the early campus is available in the Burns Library blog - Archives Diary: A new campus, Clifton Church photographs of Boston College.

Introducing WorldCat Local

The BC Libraries have introduced WorldCat Local, the quickest way to get a book from another library when it is not available at BC. 

Click here to read more.

The BC Libraries Newsletter

Learn about the University Librarian's future plans for BC Libraries; new initiatives to increase knowledge of and access to Burns special collections; how to give new life and worldwide readership to your out-of-print books for which you own the copyright; the important Burns collection of the papers of the oddly neglected novelist Pamela Frankau. These articles and more from the Boston College Libraries Newsletter.  

De Spiritualib[us] Nupciis Available Online

The Burns Library's earliest printed book, Jean Gerson's De Spiritualib[us] Nupciis (On Spiritual Marriage), is now available in a digital edition. The topic of this short, 80 page quarto-sized book is a commentary on one of the shortest books of the Old Testament, the Song of Songs, or Song of Solomon. This commentary is by Jean Charlier de Gerson (1363-1429), mystical theologian, university reformer, poet, man of letters, apologist for Joan of Arc, and from 1395 until his death, Chancellor of the University of Paris. Gerson spent his entire life in the service of the Church both as an educator and as a major force of the Conciliar movement.

Please click here to read more.

Faculty Publication Highlight

This volume brings together a group of leading international scholars to discuss how US-China-EU relations will shape the future of international politics. Arguing that these three powers will play a key role in establishing and managing a new world order, the contributors examine how a future global order is developed by the interaction of these leading actors in the international system. The book shows that the US-China-EU triangular configuration is a pivotal relationship for understanding contemporary international relations.

Popular reading expands to e-books

Download popular literature ranging from “Twilight” to “The Omnivore's Dilemma”. Through a new service, hosted by OverDrive, you can download e-books onto devices such as Kindles, iPads and smart phones. Our initial collection contains best sellers, top academic picks, and thousands of e-books in the public domain.  BC users can check out up to 2 titles at a time for 7, 14, or 21 days.  Access Overdrive here, or click on the "Download eBooks" link on the library homepage.

Advertise Your Campus Event

The new flat screen monitor located in the main lobby of O’Neill Library provides the ideal spot to publicize a campus event. Many faculty, staff, students and visitors enter the O’Neill Library each day and this highly visible location will catch the eye of your target audience. The library welcomes content from campus groups - If you are having a poster made for display around campus, send us an image, using this online form, to advertise your event in the O’Neill Library.

Civil War Letters Digitized

On March 1, 1862, Michael Leary wrote: "Dear Nellie, I heartily coincide with you in regard to there being enough of Bloodshed already and I do wish that them poor deluded people of the South...would see their folly and surrender...for it will be useless for them to try to hold out much longer." The Burns Library, which houses numerous of these fascinating and heartfelt letters written by a Civil War infantry soldier to his future wife, recently digitized this correspondence, and also uncovered new insights into the Leary family history, including a connection to Boston College that may explain the letters' provenance.

Faculty Publication Highlight

Ruth Langer offers an in-depth study of the birkat haminim, a Jewish prayer for the removal of those categories of human being who prevent the messianic redemption and the society envisioned for it. In its earliest form, the prayer cursed Christians, apostates to Christianity, sectarians, and enemies of Israel. Reconciliation between Jews and Christians today requires both communities to confront a long history of prejudice. Ruth Langer shows through the birkat haminim how the history of one liturgical text chronicled Jewish thinking about Christians over hundreds of years.

New O’Neill Library Level 2 Door Hours

The Level 2 door in O’Neill Library was opened on an experimental basis in September 2011. The idea was to create an inside passage way between  the CTRC and the library. Based on the usage patterns for the first semester and the hours of the ITS Hardware repair service which will move to level 2 soon, the hours for this entrance/exit will be now be 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and closed on the weekends. While we will continue to track use patterns, more changes may follow in the summer leading to Fall 2012.

Interlibrary Loan System Maintenance

Due to routine system maintenance, the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan System will be unavailable from 7:30 AM until 9:00 AM on Thursday, January 19^th.

All other library systems and services will be available as usual.

Faculty Publication Highlight

Accountability, Pragmatic Aims, and the American University frames the debates on teaching and learning accountability in Higher Education. By examining significant historic periods in Higher Education, Ana Martínez-Alemán explores the present apprehension about accountability in today’s colleges and universities.This book reveals the tensions between the democratic character of the university—qualities that may seem irreconcilable with accountability metrics—and the corporate or managerial economies of modern American universities.

Newton College Yearbooks Digitized

The Boston College Libraries have recently made available digital editions of all volumes of the yearbook of Newton College of the Sacred Heart. The collection can be viewed on the Internet Archive site. Read More...

Faculty Publication Highlight

In Immortality and the Law: The Rising Power of the American Dead, Professor Madoff reveals how the legal system is increasingly allowing wealthy people to exert control over their fortunes long after their death, creating a type of virtual immortality. But this type of immortality is not without considerable cost to the living and society at large. At the same time, American law provides the dead with no control over what happens to their bodies after death. Professor Madoff discusses a whole range of legal issues relating to the dead, providing background and context to the many ways we try to use the law to cheat death.

Holiday Hours

All libraries will close for the holidays starting at 5 p.m., December 23. O'Neill Library will be open 9 a.m.-5 p.m., December 27-30. All other libraries will remain closed until January 3. Online requests for services such as interlibrary loan and document delivery placed after Thursday, December 22 will be processed beginning January 3. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The Libraries’ “Chat with a Librarian 24/7” service will be closed from 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 24, through 8:00 a.m. on Monday, December 26.

Faculty Publication Highlight

Over the last hundred years, musical theatre artists have developed a form that corresponds directly to the Americanization of the increasingly Jewish New York audience; and that audience's aspirations and concerns have played out in the shows themselves. Broadway musicals still continue to function today as "cultural Ellis Islands" for fringe populations seeking acceptance into the nation's mainstream all essentially modeled upon the Jewish example. Stuart J. Hecht offers a fascinating examination of the relationship between Jews, assimilation, and the changing face of the American musical.

“Got Data” Presentation Available Online

On November 17^th, Dr. Francine Berman spoke in O’Neill Library on the topic, “Got Data?  The Role of Digital Information in Shaping 21^st Century Research”. This event was sponsored jointly by the Boston College Libraries and the Boston College Institute for the Liberal Arts and is now available online.

Faculty Publication Highlight

French philosopher Maurice Blondel had a tremendous impact on both philosophy and religion in the 20th Century. He was at once a postmodern critical philosopher and a devout traditional Catholic who strove to keep these two sides of his life in unison. In this first-ever critical examination of Blondel's life and work, Oliva Blanchette tells of Blondel's stormy confrontations with an academy dismissive of religion and a religion uncomfortable with rational philosophy.

Faculty Publication Highlight

The latest Faculty Publication Highlight features Margaret Thomas, Professor of Linguistics, Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures Department, talking about her new book Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics.

Sub Turri Digital Launch

The Boston College Libraries have recently made available digital editions of The Sub Turri, the yearbook of Boston College. The digital editions start with the first volume, from 1913, and go through the 2005 edition. The collection can be viewed on the Internet Archive site at http://www.archive.org/details/subturri

Scheduled System Maintenance on 12/2

Due to routine system maintenance, the ILLiad interlibrary loan system will be unavailable Friday, 12/2 from 10:00 PM until approximately 8:00 AM on Saturday, 12/3.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

24/7 Hours Begin November 28

Beginning the evening of Monday November 28, and continuing through the night of Tuesday, December 20, the O'Neill Library and Gargan Hall in the Bapst Library will be open 24 hours a day.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

Indo-European Etymological Dictionaries Online reconstructs the lexicons for the most important languages and language branches of Indo-European.

Burst the Heart Open

"Burst the Heart Open - A Celebration of Irish Painting" opens November 14, 2011 in the Burns Library Fine Print and Irish Rooms. Visit this and the complementary exhibition featuring Burns Library materials "Painter, Illustrator, Author: Irish Art in the Twentieth Century".

Research Data Speaker

Dr. Francine Berman will present "Got Data? The Role of Digital Information In Shaping 21st Century Research" on November 17th, at 4:30pm in the O’Neill Library Reading Room. Read more...

Faculty Publication Highlight

The latest Faculty Publication Highlight features Robert J. Starratt, Lynch School of Education, talking about his new book, Refocusing School Leadership: Foregrounding Human Development throughout the Work of the School.

Library Undergraduate Newsletter

The Libraries' semi-annual undergraduate newsletter, ugrads@bc.library, is now available. Check it out today!

14th-century Music Manuscript

Among the treasures at the Burns Library is a 14^th-century Franciscan Antiphoner noted throughout with the rhymed offices of St. Francis and St. Clare. A late 13^th-century manuscript containing the psalm "Venite exultemus" is bound in at the end.  View the Antiphoner online.

New Digitized Photos

Gusty Spence, a key figure in the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), died recently. The John J. Burns Library’s Bobbie Hanvey photographic archives contain digitized photographs of Gusty Spence, along with many others related to Northern Ireland. Read more...

Faculty Publication Highlight

The latest Faculty Publication Highlight features Prof. Franco Mormando, Romance Languages, talking about his new book, a translation and critical edition of The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini  by Domenico Bernini.

RefWorks Workshops

Learn how to use RefWorks to import and format citations and to create a bibliography automatically. View the schedule.

Lasting Relationships Research Data

Focusing on the question of how couples adapt in various aspects of their relationships over the years, the Lasting Relationships Research Data Archive provides open access to interview data from 108 couples in relationships lasting  an average of 30 years.  Read more..

Recent Acquisition Highlight

Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives presents original scholarly biographies of 300-500 notable Americans. Articles range from 1,000 to 6,000 words, contain a photo of the individual, and provide a concise summary of achievements. 

Newly digitized at the Burns Library

The U.S.S. United States, along with the U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides), was one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794.  The U.S.S. United States log for 1842-1844 is held by the Burns Library and is also available in a new digital version. 

Choose Popular Reading Titles

Use this month's poll to help choose the titles for the O'Neill Library Popular Reading Collection.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World covers an area of Jewish history, religion, and culture which until now has lacked its own cohesive/discrete reference work. This work aims to fill the gap in academic reference literature on the Jews of Muslim lands particularly in the late medieval, early modern and modern periods. 

E-Books Trial

Check out the Libraries' newest trial to thousands of e-books on Palgrave Connect covering the Humanities, Social Sciences and Business. The trial runs until Dec. 8th and many of these e-books can be found in the Quest Catalog.  Send your feedback to Sally Wyman.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

Scripta Sinica is the largest Chinese full text database. It includes a wide range of historical material covering more than 580 titles and 412,000,000 characters pertaining to traditional Chinese classics.

Burns Library Flickr photostream

The John J. Burns Library Flickr photostream now has 1,000 images and has surpassed 100,000 views!  MORE 

Faculty Publication Highlight

Video interview with Robert C. Bartlett, Behrakis Professor of Hellenic Political Studies, about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

What’s New @ BC Libraries

The BC Libraries staff have been working hard over the summer on a number of improvements to services and facilities. Click here for highlights.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

The Bibliography of British and Irish History provides bibliographic data on historical writing dealing with the British Isles and British Empire and Commonwealth from 55 BCE to the present.  Listing books and articles, it does not contain original sources unless they have been edited and republished by historians except for a selection of key sources published before 1901.

O’Neill Reserves Has Moved

If you visited the O’Neill Library this summer you will have noticed the construction areas on level 3, including the former Reserves Reading Room, which is being transformed into a general reading room.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

Play Index lists over 31,000 plays published individually or in collections from 1949 to the present. It covers a wide range of plays written in or translated into English, including one-act plays, pageants, plays in verse, radio and television plays, and classic drama.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

ProQuest Statistical Datasets includes data from over 50 federal agencies on demographics, health, education, environment, employment, finance, housing as well as data from international organizations (World Bank and IMF) and data from EASI demographics with U.S. consumer expenditure data to the zip code and block group level.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

Linguistic Bibliography Online covers all disciplines of theoretical linguistics, both general and language specific, from all geographical areas, including less-known and extinct languages, with particular attention to the many endangered languages of the world.

Treasures in the News

Boston.com recently highlighted several of the Boston College Libraries’ digital collections, including “Love and Death,” a previously unpublished play by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

British Nursing Index, a nursing and midwifery database, covers over 220 UK journals and other English language titles. Used with the nursing database, CINAHL, it provides a comprehensive search of nursing literature.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

China Academic Journals is the most comprehensive, full-text database of mainland Chinese journals in the world. This collection provides access to journals in Literature, History, Philosophy, Economics, Politics, and Law starting in 1994.

Under Construction

The O’Neill Library is transforming itself this summer by increasing seating capacity, making entering and leaving the library more convenient, and providing easier access to the library’s public technology services. More.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

Begun in 1819, Monumenta Germaniae Historica is one of the most important resources of medieval historical texts.  In more than 300 volumes, covering the widest possible range of historical documents, the online version of the Monumenta offers a wealth of critical editions.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

The London Review of Books Online Archive provides access to all issues of the LRB from the past 30 years. In addition to articles about books, the magazine has numerous reviews of films and exhibitions. Political and social editorials and essays are also common.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

The Treatise on Geophysics is a core reference for the field of geophysics. It covers seismology, geomagnetism, solid earth physics, crust, mantle and core dynamics, evolution of the earth and lunar and planetary geophysics. 

Recent Acquisition Highlight

China: Online Trade, Policy and Culture 1793-1980 covers the two centuries of monumental social and political upheaval that ultimately recreated China into a modern power.

Memorial Day Hours

All Libraries will be closed Monday, May 30 in observance of Memorial Day.

Libraries Newsletter

Read about alternatives to commercial print and online course packs; see a video interview with Catherine Cornille; read a rebuttal of some Open Access myths. These articles and more from the Boston College Libraries Newsletter.

Congratulations Class of 2011!

You made it! Now you face the opportunities, challenges, and changes that lie ahead. In your quest for success you have continued access to the resources and services of the Boston College Libraries. More.

Faculty Publication Highlight

Video interview with Harvey D. Egan, S.J., Professor Emeritus, Theology Department, about Soundings in the Christian Mystical Tradition.

Witnessing the Occupation

Opening reception for the Level One Gallery exhibit, Witnessing the Occupation: 8 Days in the West Bank and Israel in Pictures, Monday, May 9, 5-7p.m.

24 Hour Study Locations

Bapst's Gargan Hall and the O'Neill Library are open for 24-hour study May 2 through May 16.

Additional Study Spaces

During the exam period there will be extra tables and chairs on O'Neill Level 3. In addition, from 6 p.m. until 7 a.m. some staff spaces in O'Neill Library, rooms 211, 307, 406, 413 and the Connors Family Learning Center, will be available for study.

Arts Festival Literary Events

In addition to instrumental music, song, and dance, the Boston College Arts Festival is a celebration of the literary arts. View detailed schedule.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry is an XML-based archive that brings together seventy-four poems and letters from Dickinson's correspondence with her sister-in-law and primary confidante, Susan Dickinson.

Faculty Publication Highlights

Video interview with History Professor Robert Savage about A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society, 1960-1972.

RefWorks Workshops

Learn how to use RefWorks to import and format citations and to create a bibliography automatically. View the schedule.

Easter Weekend Hours

Library hours are altered for Easter weekend Thursday, April 21, through Sunday, April 24.

Faculty Exchange Lecture Today

Queens University Belfast visiting scholar, Peter McLoughlin, will present "Before Hope and History" Thursday, April 14 at 4 p.m. in Burns Library.  RSVP to joan.reilly@bc.edu. More info.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

JBI COnNECT+ database provides access to resources to help the health care professional find and use evidence to inform clinical decision-making.

Choose Popular Reading Titles

Use this month's poll to help choose the titles for the O'Neill Library Popular Reading Collection.

Faculty Publication Highlight

Video interview with Arch Woodside, Carroll School of Management, about Tourism-Marketing Performance Metrics and Usefulness Auditing of Destination Websites.

GIS Contest Winners

Congratulations to Josh Coefer and Christopher Soeller, first and second place winners of the Second Annual Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Mapping Contest. More »

Recent Acquisition Highlight

21st Century Psychology is a new, online reference book from Sage and an introduction to modern psychology. More »

Tech Loans – What’s Available NOW?

Want to find out if there’s an iPad or a Mac charger available for you to check out right now at O’Neill Library? More »

Follow the Libraries on Twitter

The BC Libraries are now on Twitter (@bclibraries). Happy tweeting!

Library Undergraduate Newsletter

The Libraries' semi-annual undergraduate newsletter, ugrads@bc.library, is available. Check it out today!

Recent Acquisition Highlight

The new interdisciplinary journal Nature Climate Change, features timely coverage of climate change research, with peer review and rapid publication. 

New York Times Online

The New York Times is now charging for unlimited access to its online content. The Boston College community can still access Times content online through a variety of sources. Learn how in the Finding Newspapers guide.

Exhibit Presentation

Sinology Professor Nicolas Standaert, K.U. Leuven, presents Friendship Bound through Travelling Prints, part of the seminar series accompanying the current Burns Library exhibit, on March 28, 5:30-7pm in the O'Neill Reserve Room.

Recent Acquisition Highlight

China Academic Journals (CAJ) is the most comprehensive, full-text database of mainland Chinese journals in the world. More »

Choose Popular Reading Titles

Many students checked out bestsellers from the O'Neill Library Popular Reading Collection on level 1 over spring break. Use our poll to help choose the titles for the collection.

RefWorks Workshops

Learn how to use RefWorks to import and format citations and to create a bibliography automatically. View the schedule.

Celebrating Boston Irish Connections

Among the Burns Library’s world-renowned Irish collections are Boston-based materials covering a wide range of themes. A selection of these materials have been highlighted for Saint Patrick's Day. 

BC is Green Month

Join the Libraries in celebrating "BC is Green" month.

Graduate Student Symposium

A one-day interdisciplinary presentation of student work from all of BC's graduate and professional schools will be held March 15, 8:30am-6pm, Burns Library. More info »

Navigating the OECD Database

March 17 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., OECD Training Officer Alex Shoenfeld will speak about the resources available on the OECD website. More info »

Faculty Publication Highlight

Video interview with John Gallaugher, Carroll School of Management, about the benefits of publishing his recent book Information Systems as a free online textbook.

Scheduled Network Outage

Due to a campus-wide network upgrade all web-based library services will be unavailable (website, Holmes, Quest, ILL, Databases, Digital Collections) on Sunday, March 6th from 3 a.m. until 5 a.m.

Brief Outage for Holmes

Friday, March 4 at 10:30 p.m. Holmes One Search will be unavailable for 30 minutes due to a system upgrade. All other Library services will be available.

Old Books in a New World

UVa Rare Book School Director Michael Suarez, S.J., will present "Old Books in the New Digital World" today, March 3 at 4:30 p.m. in the O'Neill Reserve Reading Room.

Democracy & the Arab World

Selected books from the Boston College Libraries, 2007-2010.

Film Screening

Come to a film screening of The Greening of Southie on March 3 at 12 p.m. in O'Neill 211.

RefWorks Workshops

Learn how to use RefWorks to import and format citations and to create a bibliography automatically. View the schedule.

Faculty Publication Highlight

Video interview with Cynthia Simmons, Professor, Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages, about her recent book, Women Engaged/Engaged Art in Postwar Bosnia.

Show Us Your GIS Skills!

Enter the Boston College Libraries' 2nd Annual Geographic Information Systems Poster Contest. View details and submission information.

Scientific Calculators for Loan

O'Neill Library has added scientific calculators to its array of handy technology items to borrow. More »

Coffee Now Available in O'Neill!

In response to user requests, the Libraries have added a coffee vending machine in O'Neill Library on Level 1.

Printing Changes in O'Neill

The default print setting in O'Neill Library is now double-sided. For single-sided printing you must change the default setting. Help is available at the Tech Support Center.

Senior Thesis Help

Come to a drop-in session for help with any aspect of the senior thesis process and the Library support role. View the schedule.

95 Years Celebrating Black History

Celebrate Black History Month with some suggestions from the Libraries.

Faculty Publication Highlight

Video interview with Suzanne Berne, Professor, English Department, about her recent book, Missing Lucile: Memories of a Grandmother I Never Knew.

Exhibit Reception Today

Come to an opening reception today, 6:30-7:30 p.m. for The Mind Often Wanders: A Floating Show, Level One Gallery, O'Neill Library.

O'Neill Open

O'Neill Library will open today, February 2, at 7:30 a.m. as usual. All other libraries will open by 10 a.m. due to the weather.

RefWorks Workshops

Learn how to use RefWorks to import and format citations and to create a bibliography automatically. View the schedule.

Faculty Publication Highlight

The latest edition of Faculty Publication Highlights features Professor Robert Meyerhoff, Department of Mathematics. 

Holmes: what's it all about?

Come to a brief and informal review on Holmes One Search, the Library discovery tool. Bring your questions, too! View schedule »

Additional Lockers Available in O'Neill

O’Neill Library has expanded the number of storage lockers available for student use.
More »

In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Consult the Libraries hours for specific changes for Monday, January 17. Regular hours begin on January 18, the first day of Spring semester classes.

New Homepage Launched

The Libraries' website has undergone a redesign intended to provide more streamlined and visually appealing access to our resources and services. Let us know what you think.

All Libraries Closed

Due to the snow storm, all Boston College Libraries are closed, Wednesday, January 12.

New Library Homepage

The Libraries will launch a new homepage on Wednesday, January 12. The redesigned page is based on several strategic initiatives and reflects considerable user input. See a preview!

New Associate University Librarian

The Boston College Libraries welcome Jon E. Cawthorne, Associate University Librarian for Public Services.

Libraries Newsletter

Learn about enhanced Library support for interdisciplinary programs; get updates on new staff; read about the future of e-books in the Libraries. These articles and more from the Boston College Libraries Newsletter.

Have a Question? Text Us!

Text us at 66746 and start your question with "askbc". Available Sunday-Thursday 10am-10pm, Friday 10am-7pm, and Saturday 11am-7pm. More information about this service.

Choose Popular Reading Titles

Use this month's poll to help choose the titles for the O'Neill Library Popular Reading Collection.