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Category: Projects

  • Stylus; the Earliest Boston College Newspaper

    Over 400 copies of Stylus, Boston College’s original student newspaper, have been digitized and are available online due to a team effort of the Digital Repositories Group and Burns Library. From 1883 to now, the student newspaper has developed a reputation for being a wellspring of artistic student expression. While the original publication covered administrative,…

  • New digital resource: 19th century petition letters for Jesuit mission assignments

    A set of original handwritten letters housed in the Jesuit Archive in Rome has been scanned and transcribed and is now available freely on the web for research and study. A collaboration between Boston College Libraries, the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies and Emanuele Colombo of DePaul University, the Digital Indipetae Database offers an ordered…

  • Highlights from the 2019 Digital Scholarship Open House

    Highlights from the 2019 Digital Scholarship Open House

    On May 1, 2019 the Digital Scholarship Group hosted an Open House that featured the work of several faculty, graduate students, and librarians. Here is a brief overview of the presentations with links to slides and other materials shared kindly by the presenters. Richard L. Sweeney (Assistant Professor, Economics Department) who participated in this past…

  • 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…

  • Encoding the Thomas D. Craven Diary

    Encoding the Thomas D. Craven Diary

    In the spring of 2018, several library and archives staff from Thomas P. O’Neill (Nancy Adams, Meg Critch, Sarah DeLorme, Anna Kijas) and John J. Burns Library (Kathleen Monahan, Annalisa Moretti) began a collaborative transcription and encoding project of a 1917 diary written by Boston College student, Thomas D. Craven. This diary was written during the…