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  • Beginner Guide to ABBYY FineReader Sprint

    Beginner Guide to ABBYY FineReader Sprint

    This tutorial was written by Digital Studio Student Assistant, Emma Grimm. Learn more about Emma and our other student assistants here. ABBYY FineReader Sprint is a tool that turns any hard copy paper into an online type text which can be edited on the computer. With the program, you can correct images, reformat your document, or…

  • May 2019 Data Visualization Display @ O’Neill Library

    May 2019 Data Visualization Display @ O’Neill Library

    During the month of May, the O’Neill Library digital display (by the POP collection) will showcase a selection of data visualizations created by undergraduate and graduate student award recipients from the 10th annual GIS Mapping contest. Past winning posters can be found in the university Institutional Repository, eScholarship@BC, under the category Juried Student Work. The…

  • March 2019 Data Visualization Display @ O’Neill Library

    March 2019 Data Visualization Display @ O’Neill Library

    For the months of March and April, the O’Neill digital display (by the POP collection) will feature a curated “Women Also Know Data” visualization display to highlight diagrams, projects, and software developed by women over the last 160 years. Diagram of the Causes of Mortality in the Army in the East Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is…

  • First Annual Boston College Libraries’ Maker Contest

    First Annual Boston College Libraries’ Maker Contest

    Who: Boston College undergraduate or graduate students What: This contest challenges students to “bring history to life” by using digital tools to create multi-modal content that can be accessed online and featured on the Boston College Libraries’ Digital Studio multitouch table. The table is a large interactive display that enables multiple people to explore and…

  • A New Home on the Web for the Becker Collection: Drawings of the American Civil War Era

    A New Home on the Web for the Becker Collection: Drawings of the American Civil War Era

    Post by Stephen Sturgeon, Senior Digital Scholarship Librarian & Bibliographer for English In fall 2018 the Digital Scholarship Group launched The Becker Collection: Drawings of the American Civil War Era, a digital archive of nineteenth-century drawings with a substantial history of curation. We created the site in collaboration with the drawings’ owners, Sheila Gallagher and…

  • Happy Public Domain Day (err…Month)!

    Happy Public Domain Day (err…Month)!

    Post by John O’Connor, Scholarly Communications Librarian January 1, 2019 marked the first Public Domain Day celebrated in the United States in 20 years, and we at Boston College are spending the month of January celebrating this wonderful day and all the new works going into the Public Domain in 2019. So what is Public…