The Fall 2017 - Winter 2018 issue of Calling Home is now available! The site is part of the Global Ecology Education Initiative (GEEI). The Calling Home website offers updates on the educational impacts of the GEEI and other climate change awareness activities. Featured are a piece on climate action in... Read the rest of this entry »

Upon Professor Ji-Xin Cheng’s appointment to the College of Engineering last summer, he was named the inaugural holder of the endowed Theodore Moustakas Professorship in Photonics and Optoelectronics. Earlier this month, Dean Kenneth R. Lutchen gathered Cheng, his chair’s namesake, Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of Photonics and Optoelectronics Theodore... Read the rest of this entry »

  As part of International Education Week (Nov. 13-17, 2017) the African Studies Library is offering the following exhibit and event: “Celebrating African Food & Culture”  Food -- we all eat. But what we eat, how we eat, and the traditions we construct around food are wonderfully diverse! Food is often at the heart of social... Read the rest of this entry »

COMING SOON & OPEN TO THE BU COMMUNITY! The Father አባትዬው When?  Monday, Nov. 6th, 5:30 - 8:30pm Where?  Mugar Library, 3rd floor  Estin Room (771 Commonwealth Ave) A short political thriller set in the tumultuous period of Ethiopian history that followed the deposing of Emperor Haile Selassie and the rise of a brutal military... Read the rest of this entry »

Here's a great video explaining why open education matters.  This piece won first prize in a contest back in the summer of 2012, but the message is still as important as ever.  The BU Libraries fully support Open Access.

  Have you written a book that is now out of print? Would you like to open your book up to a wider audience, without relying on a publisher to do it for you? BU Libraries Digital Scholarship Services is offering a workshop on Getting Back the Rights to Your Books on... Read the rest of this entry »

We wish you a warm welcome back to campus! We’re excited to see familiar faces and meet those of you who are new. Please stop by the African Studies Library here on the 6th floor of Mugar sometime soon! Faculty, we have begun scheduling library instruction sessions with many of... Read the rest of this entry »

This edition includes: More than 10,000 journals; Tracked title changes; More than 100 subject categories. To view an impact factor, simply enter our Journal Citation Reports database, and follow the instructions on screen.

PBS LearningMedia has launched a great new design of their free site. Teachers can customize the site to their own liking on a dashboard by adding favorites.  Tens of thousands of resources are available, including videos (some in Spanish), images, and interactive learning objects. This is just one of the wonderful... Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to all the educators in town for @favepoem #FavoritePoemInstitute! The library is prepared and ready for you!