Category: Announcement
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March 2018 O’Neill Library Displays
It’s not quite Spring yet in Boston, but March does bring some holidays! The March O’Neill displays celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and Easter. This month’s display items include: Materials from the John J. Burns Library’s Irish collection Photographs from the University Archives Objects from the John J. Burns Library’s Liturgy and Life collection Excerpts from…
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February 2018 O’Neill Library Displays
As part of Black History Month at Boston College, we’re excited to feature items from our collections that highlight black life, activism, and milestones at BC. This months, we’ve selected the following items to display on the O’Neill Library screens: Forum for Black History Month, from the Boston College special guests and events photographs collection,…
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Spring 2018 Digital Scholarship Events
Our Spring 2018 event schedule is now live. Join us this semester for Coffee & Code workshops on copyright, digital exhibits, mapping, and more! We’ll also continue to offer our Collaborative TEI sessions for those interested in learning more about text encoding. All sessions take place in the Digital Studio, room 205 in O’Neill Library.…
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DH Reading Group Schedule
The Digital Scholarship Group has finalized the reading schedule for the Spring 2018 Digital Humanities reading group. All the readings are freely available online at the 2016 Debates in the Digital Humanities site if you navigate to Contents at the top of the page. We will also have copies of the text for everyone at…
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Scholarship Opportunity: Bookbuilders of Boston
We are excited to announce that the BC Libraries are offering a scholarship, sponsored by Bookbuilders of Boston. We are seeking a BC undergraduate or graduate student interested in exhibit displays and digital technologies to develop online versions of exhibitions. If selected for this project, you will develop technical expertise while learning about historical and…
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Visualizing racial disparity in Boston, c. 1970
During the spring and summer of this year, I collaborated on an exhibit, Desegregating Boston Schools: Crisis and Community Activism, 1963-1977, with Sarah Melton and Dr. Eric Weiskott. The main exhibit is at the John J. Burns Library, and a smaller complementary exhibit is on view in the Reading Room, Level 3, Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr.…