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  • Music Notation with Finale

    Music Notation with Finale

    This tutorial was written by Digital Studio Student Assistant, Nick Sucre. Learn more about Nick and our other student assistants here. Finale is a very effective and intuitive way to notate music digitally. This program is very user friendly yet has a huge array of tools and options that fulfill almost every demand necessary for music…

  • OpenCon 2018 Boston

    OpenCon 2018 Boston

    Boston College and Boston University Libraries are pleased to announce OpenCon 2018 Boston. This year’s event will feature a screening of Paywall: The Business of Scholarship. We are excited to welcome the film’s producer and director Jason Schmitt for a panel discussion. Additionally, we are currently seeking proposals for the following: • 20 – 25…

  • Fall 2018 Digital Humanities Reading Group Schedule

    Fall 2018 Digital Humanities Reading Group Schedule

    We are pleased to announce the schedule for the Fall 2018 Digital Humanities Reading Group. If you’re following along at home, we’ve set up a hypothes.is group for annotations.   September 11 & 12: Digital Humanities in the Popular Press Allington, Daniel, Sarah Brouillette, and David Golumbia. “Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of…

  • September 2018 Data Visualization Display @ O’Neill Library

    September 2018 Data Visualization Display @ O’Neill Library

    During the month of September, the O’Neill Library digital display (by the POP collection) will showcase a selection of data visualizations created by students, scholars, librarians, and developers working around the world. These visualizations demonstrate how data analysis and visualization is used across disciplines and fields. Each source is linked to the original site where…

  • Music Encoding Conference Keynote

    Music Encoding Conference Keynote

    Last week (May 22-25, 2018) I attended the Music Encoding Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park and gave the closing keynote on May 24. In my keynote, “What does the data tell us?: Representation, Canon, and Music Encoding,” I explored issues embedded in musicological traditions of canonicity and discussed the need for recovery…

  • May 2018 O’Neill Library Displays

    May 2018 O’Neill Library Displays

    Finals are here at Boston College, which means that summer is right around the corner. This month, we’re featuring images of graduation and summer fun, including: Photographs from Boston College commencement Postcards from the John J. Burns Library Images of the campus in the summer Good luck with finals, and congratulations to those graduating!