The Science & Engineering Library has just added a second flat-bed book scanner, as well as a loose-page scanner, free for patron use. The scanners allow you to easily scan pages into PDF format which can be sent to your email, or saved to your personal USB drive. All scanners... Read the rest of this entry »

The Annie E. Casey Foundation has released a report with data about children in the United States called the 2015 Kids Count Data Book. In addition to offering the raw data on the website, the report details trends in overall child well-being, economic well-being, education, health, and family and community. State-by-state profiles examine the above trends, Read the rest of this entry »

The Pickering Library has updated a list of new books in education available at Boston University. New titles on various educational topics are highlighted, as are some award-winning juvenile and young adult literature titles. Interested in learning how to flip your classroom? How about equity and school choice? Or perhaps you'd... Read the rest of this entry »

Use BU Library SEARCH and your keywords to find cutting edge research from IEEE Conferences. 1,056,990 (1 million+!) journal articles from IEEE Journals are also directly findable by keyword including author names in BU Library SEARCH. IEEE technical papers can also be found in the The IEEE Digital Library including... Read the rest of this entry »

The Science Boot Camp is a meeting of information professionals and scientists held every year in the Northeast.  At Boot Camp, librarians and other non-scientists learn about different fields of scientific inquiry and how the scientists in those areas conduct research.  Even if you aren't an information professional, the videos... Read the rest of this entry »

Now appearing in our listening room: new displays created by our very own grad student employee Brett Kostrzewski. These beautifully curated exhibits feature material in the BU music collection and include QR codes that invite you to interact with the information further. Brett has also added signs to our stacks that highlight the resources found... Read the rest of this entry »

Remember Good Night Moon, Dr. Seuss, and The Snowy Day?  The Pickering Educational Resources Library has these and others, and scanning in the library is free. The site Education World offers some great copyright guidelines for educators. Specifically in regard to picture books, this guideline seems most appropriate: educators, under most circumstances, Read the rest of this entry »

July 3rd-4th celebrations initiate a wave of free summer events. Guides prepared by BU's Office for the Arts, NEMLA (NE chapter of the Music Library Association), and Berklee offer up multiple possibilities. For instance: the beautiful group Sons of Serendip, friends who came together while in grad school at BU, Read the rest of this entry »

Newly available on the Pickering Educational Resources Library website: a central location to access Handbooks on various topics in Education. The new page contains accessible eBooks and also highlights print books. Hover your mouse over a book cover to see a popup of the book's title. Clicking on an eBook... Read the rest of this entry »

New eBook Available: OECD Skills Outlook 2015: Youth, Skills and Employability According to this work "one in four 16-29 year-olds is neither employed nor in education or training".  Focused on international trends and policies affecting the labor market, this book is an excellent source for comparative international statistics on education. The Skills... Read the rest of this entry »