Author: Melanie Hubbard

  • David Jones TEI Workshop & Archival Display

    David Jones TEI Workshop & Archival Display

    Please complete the application form if you are interested in attending the workshop and can commit to the full three days. If accepted, you will be registered. (We apologize for not accepting everyone. Space is limited.) David Jones (1895-1974) was a Welsh artist and poet. The Burn’s Jones collection includes a range of written and visual…

  • Meet Our New Team Members

    Meet Our New Team Members

    Learn about the new digital scholarship team members who started this summer. We are so delighted they are with us! Dave Thomas, Digital Scholarship Specialist David Thomas has taught, presented, and published at the intersection of Ancient History and Digital Humanities, as well as Digital Scholarship more broadly. He holds M.A. degrees in History from…

  • OA Journals

    OA Journals

    Boston College Libraries publishes Open Access (OA) digital journals that represent scholarship from Boston College faculty, graduates, and undergraduates and the broader OA community. This past fall, Fuse, a new undergraduate e-journal focused on the hard sciences, put out its first call for submissions and seeks to publish later this year. Another undergraduate journal, Medical Humanities Journal, has begun the…

  • Burns Antiphoner

    Burns Antiphoner

    The fourteenth-century Burns Antiphoner, now held in the collections of Boston College’s John J. Burns Library, is an illuminated manuscript antiphoner (from the Latin antiphonale, or antiphonarium, a book of antiphons), a volume of monophonic chant—plainsong, or plainchant—originally used by male or female religious personnel for singing the divine office of the Roman Catholic church.…

  • What are Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities?

    What are Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities?

    To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. Leonardo da Vinci There shall be love between the poet and the man of demonstrable science. In the beauty of poems are henceforth the tuft and final applause of…

  • New Digital Studio Equipment

    New Digital Studio Equipment

    This semester the Digital Studio (O’Neill Library, room 205) has been upgrading the equipment in the Podcasting Room and Sound Room, some of which is ready for use and some of which will be ready soon. In the Podcasting Room, we now have: 3 Rode Procaster dynamic microphones  Mackie Mixer 802VLZ4 Yamaha HS8 Studio Monitors…